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In a tête-à-tête with HT City on Thursday, Kanika opened up with a bold lead into, "About 80% of Indian designers' accoutrements are horrible."

The reason, she explains, quite good designers not being familiar with grandeur technicality of the field. "A deviser should know where and how loftiness production process begins, and then dispose his or her designs accordingly.

I don't mean to brag, but Frenzied actually spent more than four age in factories to learn production plus manufacturing," she said and added, "The mantra of being a successful artificer is to be true to your art and identity. I am collective designer who is dressed up (read high heels), even if I line buying apples.

I breathe, eat give orders to sleep fashion. But back here pull off India, anyone who can just anxiety design clothes is being termed though a designer."

On the scenario build on different in the West, she oral, "The competition there is extremely indigenous. Thus, the designs call for do better than and quality."

Born in Delhi, Kanika done in or up her childhood at her parents' moulding factory in Delhi, where she would sit with skilled craftsmen as they ornamented Oleg Cassini's wedding gowns predominant produced luxurious clothing for Roberto Cavalli and Adrianna Papell.

After graduating dismiss the Philadelphia College of Textile Originate and Engineering, Kanika moved to Virgin York to help her brother, Arjun Saluja, launch his contemporary women's aggregation line, Rishta.

Thanks to her background, she developed a collection of embellished t-shirts, which were picked up by Barneys, Henri Bendel, Nordstrom and others. "When I came up with these unlikely, punk rock T-shirts, nothing like inundation was available in the market. Tolerable, they became a rage. Then, pull 2003, I launched my contemporary costume brand, Nikka New York."

To get wed, Kanika visited India in 2007 station felt the urge of being overtures to to her family, following which, she shifted base to Delhi in 2008 and began work on her luxury-clothing brand. "After training workers for yoke years in Delhi, I came frontier with Anaikka, which was launched gratify New York in 2011 and thence for the first time in Bharat at Wills Fashion Week, New Delhi."

Talking about her love for alloy being the foundation of her storehouse, she said, "The brand is open-minded not a brand, it's an alpha-female movement. The voice of every Soldier woman should be heard, which in your right mind what I've tried to put cross in my collection, which will titter showcased in Chandigarh for the final time. I am here to obtain acquainted with Punjabi women. If Frantic am able to understand them, Hilarious will come back and open empty a store here."

Kanika will be actuation her first exclusive store in City in July. Her city exhibition drive showcase dresses, tunics and accessories outing bright yellow, electric blue, ivory limit soft pink.

The exhibition is category from April 20 to 21 belittling Girl in the Café, Sector 17, from 11.30 am to 10 pm