Meet the Mumbai member bringing Indian fashion to the world
Bodice founder Ruchika Sachdeva on how she is reinventing Indian garments for women worldwide
By Akanksha Kamath Monday 16 March, 2020
In 2011, Ruchika Sachdeva founded her label Bodice. Just three years later, she won the Vogue India Fashion Fund, followed by an International Woolmark Prize in 2017, and the most recent addition to her personal wall of fame – the Designer Of The Year nod as part of the 2019 Vogue India Woman Of The Year awards.
Having done away with connotations of Indian fashion as colourful couture, Sachdeva’s formula of deceptively simple clothes laced with design layers (think heat pleating, old blankets turned into jackets, merino wool handwoven in the Himalayas) makes a bold new case for ready-to-wear clothing for women in India – and beyond.
Poised to bring Indian sensibilities to the global fashion stage, the Soho House Mumbai member spoke to us about what makes Bodice the bellwether of a new wave of Indian fashion.
