
The same year his gateway to the fashion industry opened when Rakesh Sreshtha, a photographer, introduced him to the late Sridevi to style her photoshoot looks.
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Manish Malhotra made his costume designing debut, in 1990, with the movie Swarg starring Govinda, Rajesh Khanna, and Juhi Chawla. He describes his Bollywood forte as "an entire, integrated look for a character throughout a film."Ĭareer Stylist and designer

Since then, Malhotra has dressed an entire generation of Bollywood actors and their progeny on-screen while also extending his aesthetics with his private label. He debuted in the Hindi Film Industry as a costume stylist in 1990. Though he did not have a formal education in fashion design, Manish's love for sketching, painting, and his passion for cinema and clothes saw him veer towards the world of films and styling. In 1989, he was offered a chance to style the celebrated actress Divya Bharti in a song sequence for a film by David Dhawan. He wished to showcase his collection at Ensemble but didn't have the monetary means to create them at that point in time. In 1987, he decided to hire two tailors and started taking customized couture orders from his house. On his return at the onset, he joined a boutique in Bandra called Equinox, where he spent his time sketching and draping the mannequins for a year, which paid him lower than 500 Indian rupees per month. He managed to save Rs 90,000 through his modeling gigs and flew to Bangkok and Singapore in a quest to explore the world. While studying Arts at Elphinstone College in Mumbai, Manish was 19 when he forayed into modeling ad campaigns for brands like Fu's, Weekender, Frooti, and Goldspot. As he had a knack for sketching, he joined a painting class in the tenth grade as per his brother's suggestion.įrom watching films, painting, being surrounded by mother's clothes, recreating her sarees, being strongly opinionated about his family's sartorial choices, his love for fashion, styling, and cinema grew. Growing up, he was heavily influenced by Bollywood films – the songs, the storytelling, the colors, the costumes, the actors who adorned them and made it a point to watch every movie released. He studied at the Sacred Heart Boys High School, Mumbai. Manish Malhotra was born to a Punjabi family in Mumbai, India. He is set to make his directorial debut with a musical love story, set in the backdrop of the partition, produced by Dharma Productions.Īccoladed as a pioneer in the Indian design space, Manish Malhotra's areas of creativity span the broad spheres of cinema, design, styling, diffusion, timeless bridal couture, jewelry, beauty, film direction, Virtual Store, and now Tech with his recent launch of NFT's in the blockchain business. Since 2018 Manish has launched four other new verticals - Manish Malhotra Beauty, Manish Malhotra Jewellery, a Film Production company, and Home decor. Filmfare introduced the 'best costume design' award in 1996 to acknowledge Manish Malhotra for his styling and designing work in the film ' Rangeela' released in 1995. He has also been felicitated with Priyadarshini Memorial Award for his contribution to the fashion industry.

Manish Malhotra became famous for his outlook on the importance of costumes in films, often becoming a part of the narration and script reading process to develop costumes for films. The recipient of several awards rose to prominence for his elaborate work in cinema with Bollywood, Telugu, Tamil, Hollywood, Television, and the Fashion industry. He is known for redefining and modernizing how actors look in Indian movies and reviving some of the country's forgotten crafts.

He has styled and designed for more than thousands of movies and won numerous awards.

The founder of the eponymous label, Manish Malhotra, has been deeply entrenched in the twin worlds of fashion and film for the past three decades. Manish Malhotra (born December 5 1966) is an Indian fashion designer, couturier, costume stylist, entrepreneur, filmmaker, revivalist based in Mumbai, India.
