For Wills India Fashion Week Aw 2014, Shruti Sancheti inspiration comes from the woman of the “Raj” especially from the 19th century, lead a glamorous and enchanting life of polo matches, races, moonlight picnics, dances, cocktail parties, dawn riding enjoying a lavish, colonial lifestyle. They were mesmerized by the exotic local princesses, the opulent jewels, magnificent silks and exquisite craft and would incorporate the Indian luxurious elements into their Anglicized preferences and thus resulting in a unique mode of dressing and fashion which was particular to these “Memsahibs” of East India company. 
Her collection covers the captivating and bewitching lifestyles of these remarkable women who adapted two parallel yet contradictory cultures and produced a unique and novel fashion statement. Keeping the Imperial preferences in mind, her color palette is oxblood, navy blue, deep purple, crimson, burgundy, teal, burnt orange in pretty English floral prints in pure, woven silk along with smattering of velvet, raw silk, laces a reminiscent of the Edwardian and Victorian era. Intricate hand embroidery in motifs of blooms in thread work, cut work have been used for surface ornamentation while the silhouettes are heavily inspired by the elaborateness and conservativeness of the period .
