Anamika Khanna is an Indian fashion designer and philanthropist, known for her style of combining traditional Indian textiles with Western silhouettes and tailoring techniques.
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Wiki/Biography
Anamika Khanna was born on Monday, 19 July 1971 (age 52 years; as in 2023) in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. His zodiac sign is Cancer. She moved to Kolkata with her family at a very young age. She completed her schooling from MB Girls High School, Kolkata and did her Bachelor of Arts from Loreto College, Kolkata. Anamika also participated in several fashion workshops held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and various universities in Paris. She is settled in Kolkata, India.
Physical Appearance
Height (Approx): 5′ 4″
Hair Color: Natural Black
Eye colour: dark brown
Family
parents and siblings
There is no information about his parents; However, Anamika has two sisters, Suruchi Choksey and Suhani Pitti. Suruchi is an abstract artist and Suhani is an Indian jewelery designer.
Anamika Khanna’s sister Suhani Pitti
Anamika Khanna’s sister Suruchi Choksi
husband and children
Anamika Khanna married her long-time boyfriend at the age of 25. They had an inter-caste marriage, and the couple later had twin sons, Viraj Khanna, who is a sculptor, a collage artist, and a fashion entrepreneur. and Vishesh Khanna, who is a fashion designer.
(Left to Right) Vishesh Khanna, Anamika Khanna and Viraj Khanna
livelihood
fashion designing
Being an art student, Anamika Khanna used to make sketches during her college days and her friends persuaded her to send her designs for a fashion award. Her design was selected and she was asked to present a fashion show, and she had never made a garment before. She entered the fashion industry as a designer in the early 1990s and launched her label ‘Anamika Khanna’ in Kolkata in 1998. Her label is known for its bridal, casual and formal wear collections. She was part of India’s first Lakme Fashion Week held in New Delhi in 1999. In 2005, Anamika participated in Will’s Fashion Week Spring/Summer edition, in which she showcased her collection ‘The Botanist’ and in the same year, she participated. At London Fashion Week. In 2008, Anamika participated in the HDIL India Couture Week held in Mumbai, in which she showcased her signature styled cowl-shaped dress, which was almost identical to the dhoti worn by Mahatma Gandhi. In 2010, Anamika showcased her autumn/winter collection at the Indian Premiere London Fashion Week, which was held at the Bloomsbury Ballroom, London, and the following year, she showcased her collection at the Lakme Summer Resort. In 2013, she participated in the PCJ Delhi Couture Week, in which she presented her designs of sharara, vest and coat with the color combination of black, white and gold. The tribal jewelery presented to the models wearing Anamika Khanna’s designs was from her sister Suhani Pitti’s jewelery label.
Anamika Khanna (in black trousers) at PCJ Delhi Couture Week in 2013.
The same year, at her first Delhi Couture Week outing, Anamika revealed how her famous ‘dhoti pant’ design came to life. Once she saw a priest working in a temple next to Anamika’s factory wearing a dhoti and was fascinated by him, and she asked him to make a woman’s mannequin wrapped in a dhoti (a predominantly men’s clothing item). asked for help. , The designer then made his own improvements by adding a luxury fabric to the clothing item and making it ready to wear instead of tying it manually and thus the famous dhoti pant came into existence. In 2014, Anamika Khanna collaborated with Italian luxury brand ‘BVLGARI’ (also spelled ‘Bulgari’) for the inauguration of its new store in New Delhi.
Anamika Khanna (third from left) at the BVLGARI stpre launch in Delhi.
In 2016, Anamika collaborated with Amrapali Jewels for her first jewelery collection ‘Anamika Khanna x Amrapali Jaipur Collection’. Her jewelery collection was designed with rubies and emeralds.
bollywood projects
Anamika Khanna has designed clothes for many Bollywood films like ‘Fashion’ (2008), ‘Ayesha’ (2010), ‘Mausam’ (2011), ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’ (2013) and ‘Prem Ratan Dhan Payo’ (2015). Have done. , In 2011, Anamika designed the clothes that Simi Garewal wore in her talk show ‘Simi Selects India’s Most Desirable’.
Awards and Nominations
- Anamika Khanna received the Export Council Award in 2004.
- In 2004, she received the Award of Excellence for Outstanding Boutique (Women’s).
- In 2004, she received the MTV Lycra Style Awards – Designer of the Year and the Kingfisher Designer of the Year Award.
- In 2006, she received the FICCI Ladies Organization’s Young Women Achievers Award.
- In 2007, he received the Marudhar Gaurav Award at the Kolkata Chapter of the Rajasthan Foundation.
- In 2010, Anamika received the prestigious Bharat Nirman Award.
- In 2016, Anamika received the ‘Designer of the Year Award’ at the Hello Hall of Fame Awards.
- In 2016, he was appointed as a speaker at the fourth edition of TEDx IIM Shillong to share his views on the topic ‘Confluence in Struggle’.
- In 2017, she received the ‘Indian Affairs Fashion Designer of the Year Award’ at the 8th Annual India Leadership Conclave and Indian Affairs Business Leadership Awards.
- In 2018, Anamika Khanna received the ‘Designer of the Year Award’ at the Vogue Women of the Year Awards.
- In 2019, she received the ‘HT Most Stylish Designer Award’ at the Hindustan Times India’s Most Stylish Awards.
- In 2023, Anamika received the ‘Trailblazing Fashion Designer of the Year Award’ at the Pinkvilla Style Icon Awards.
Favorite
- Cuisine: Thai, Indian, Chinese
- Book: Fifty Dresses That Changed the World by Design Museum Enterprise Ltd.
- TV Shows: Criminal Minds (2005), Law & Order (1990), Suits (2011)
- Restaurant: Chinoiserie, Taj Bengal, Kolkata
- Movies: ‘Scarface’ (1983), ‘Sholay’ (1975), ‘Life Is Beautiful’ (1997)
Facts/General Knowledge
- Anamika Khanna considers celebrities like Karl Lagerfeld and Vivienne Westwood and singers like Madonna, Tina Turner and Bruce Springsteen as her biggest inspirations for getting into the fashion industry. In the field of fashion, she considers Madonna as her role model. Anamika also credits her mother and grandmother for developing her innovative sense of style.
- In 2003, Anamika Khanna was invited to attend the Bridal Asia Show in Karachi, Pakistan and showcase her bridal collection.
- In 2004, Anamika collaborated with international apparel promoters Amit and Radhika Rastogi to launch India’s first international fashion label and she showcased her collection at the grand finale of Lakme Fashion Week. The brand “Ana-Mika for Boho” is the main flagship venture of Boho-London.
- In 2008, his collection at HDIL Couture Week was considered ‘one of the best collections seen on the ramp’.
- In 2009, Anamika was included in the list of 25 most powerful women of India.
- In 2010, she was offered an exclusive contract with British retail giant Harrods after attending London Fashion Week.
- In 2011, she designed a velvet lehenga weighing 10 kg which was gifted by Indian actress Simi Garewal to international singer Lady Gaga on the talk show ‘Simi Selects India’s Most Desirable’. The lehenga was studded with pearls, gold and silver.
- In 2012, Anamika organized a fashion show named ‘Falak Ki Jhalak’, which helped her raise funds for underprivileged cancer patients at the Tata Medical Center in Kolkata.
- At Delhi Couture Week 2012, he created a blend of Indian craft with sensual style, never seen before in India.
- In 2017, Anamika Khanna was invited by former Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, former Duke of Edinburgh, during the launch of the UK-India Year of Culture.
Anamika Khanna (right) at the UK-India Year of Culture.
- In 2017, she was invited as a guest speaker in the panel discussion on ‘Leadership Challenges for Women in a VUCA World’ at the India Conference, a student-run conference held at Harvard Business School, Boston and Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge. ,
Anamika Khanna giving a speech at Harvard Business School in Boston
- In 2019, Anamika Khanna, along with her twin sons, Viraj and Vishesh, started a brand called ‘AK-OK’, which was a collaboration venture with Reliance Brands Limited (RBL). The brand was launched in the same year after Anamika suffered a transient ischemic attack (TIA).
- In 2019, Indian fashion watchdog ‘Diet Sabya’ posted a side-by-side comparison of Air Jordan sneakers inspired by Anamika Khanna’s “Ak-Ok” design and Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour’s ‘Awok’ signature in an Instagram post. of. , The post featured a photo of Indian actress Sonam Kapoor wearing Anamika Khanna’s design at Isha Ambani and Anand Piramal’s wedding in December 2018. Diet Sabya accused Anamika of releasing a plagiarized design and copying the ‘AWOK’ signature. However, Sonam Kapoor came out in support of her designer friend and posted an Instagram dedicated to Anamika and her struggles. Although the post made by Diet Sabya was later removed but one of her spokesperson said in an interview that the entire post was a fact and not fabricated.
Diet Sabya’s Instagram post after deleting her controversial post about Anamika Khanna
Sonam Kapoor’s Instagram post in support of Anamika Khanna
- Before entering the fashion design industry, Anamika Khanna was a trained classical dancer and a painter. She also made very good sketches.
- She read an African book about textiles and this led her into the world of fashion. She then used a sewing machine to compare and contrast different clothing fabrics and materials to understand it better. After months of self-practice, she designed a garment that won the prestigious Indian fashion design award, the Damania Award, in 1995. He was also inducted into the Damania Hall of Fame.
- Folio Store in Bangalore and Ogan in Delhi were the first stores to buy Anamika Khanna’s designs.
- Anamika was the first Indian female designer to showcase her collection at Paris Fashion Week in 2007.
- She was on ‘The Business of Fashion 500 List’ (a list of people shaping the $2.4 trillion fashion industry) for five consecutive years (2013-2018).
- In 2023, Anamika Khanna was featured in Hello! 100 Most Influential List.
- Anamika considers Sonam Kapoor as ‘Bollywood’s most stylish celebrity’.
- Anamika’s 2019 Fall Collection Couture is showcased at the ‘Phoenix Art Museum’, the largest museum of visual arts in the southwest US.
- Anamika Khanna loves playing golf, and her favorite golf club is the Royal Calcutta Golf Club (RCGC) in Kolkata.
- Anamika Khanna has been on the cover of many famous magazines like Vogue, Elle, Hi! Blitz, Harper’s Bazaar Bride, and Grazia.
Anamika Khanna on the cover of Vogue Magazine (2013)
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