About Us

A true-blue Delhite at heart, Saveri had spent most of her life in Delhi till she turned 23. Make no mistake, she is well-travelled but never left home until then for reasons other than vacations. She was a consistent, sincere student throughout her years at the school- in 12th standard she was awarded a gold medal for her academic brilliance and consistency. She made the school proud when she secured admission in the prestigious St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi. There, she went on to obtain her Bachelor’s in Economics(Hons). Yet, like any other teenager, she was still evolving. She was finding herself more and more drawn towards fashion, art and history. So, midway through her first semester of a Master’s degree in economics at the Delhi School of Economics, New Delhi, she decided to turn to her best friend, mother and confidante. Her mother encouraged her to pursue her interests as she would not want her child to be stuck doing something they didn’t enjoy.

Saveri’s mother recounted how she would cut, sew and drape clothes for her dolls when she was a little girl. Her mother remembers a particular instance from when Saveri was in the third standard - Saveri had a social sciences test the following day and her mom asked her to read the textbook in silence and solitude for an hour; She would come back and ask her questions. When her mother returned after an hour, She found Saveri cutting, sewing and draping clothes for her dolls. Her mother, who is a very composed person, did not scold the child but simply asked if she had been through the textbook. Saveri replied in affirmative. Her mother found to her surprise that Saveri could answer all the questions asked.

Saveri always had a natural flair for fashion - she would help her friends with fashion advice and they would often take her along for shopping. Saveri, as remarked by one of her close friends, really knows how to put together a look. Her own personal style, though a bit understated, can be very experimental at times. She’s not the one to shy away or to be afraid to stand out. The fact that as a young child she painted but abruptly stopped in high school, did not mean that she had stopped observing nature, beauty, imagining and observing. At Delhi School of Economics, she started parallelly exploring fashion schools around the world.

She was, based on her impressive personal essay which talked in-depth about her reasons to switch career trajectory in her early twenties, and her portfolio and artworks, was admitted into the One Year Intensive Fashion Design Program at Istituto Marangoni, Milan. Milan - one of the fashion capitals, was the first place where Saveri had travelled alone. For the next one year, it was her home. She received a lot of encouragement and support from her teachers in Milan. She definitely learnt a lot in her time there, not just about fashion but about managing on her own,about basic banking and she even learnt to cook for herself, do her own laundry. She came back to India after a year, brimming with ideas and self-confidence.

Her parents realised upon her return that she had found her passion. Saveri’s mom says about her that she has a knack for making lemonade out of lemons, to put it across in American lingo. This is demonstrated by Saveri’s own initiative of creating a Spring summer ‘21 line, when she was out of work due COVID 19 recruitment freezes. This initiative of hers caught the attention of a well known, FDCI-affiliated designer who offered her a 6 month internship. She handled various aspects in her time as an intern - social media management, shoots and designing of course, while also landing an assignment as a freelance fashion designer with Shopperbird. It is an app which gives a platform to budding designers across the world, working sustainably. She was later also recruited as a Junior Designer for a Delhi-based, Womenswear Pret Label.

Some months into her new job, Saveri decided that she needed more refining as an artist and more technical skills as well. So, She enrolled into a novel course - Fashion and Textile Design Management in Mumbai, where she lives now. The course focuses on ideation and pushing creative boundaries. Saveri is gaining exposure to fabric manipulation techniques, surface and textile techniques and embellishment techniques as well. Her tutors, as teachers at her institute are referred, have noticed she has a keen eye for accessory design besides garment design. Saveri herself likes to think of fashion in terms of permutations and combinations of various surface techniques, fabrics, colours and drapes and believes that a fashion designer trains their mind and eyes to pre-conceive which combination evokes emotion or the artist’s curiosity and appreciation.

Her objective as a designer is to reach a compromise between art and practicality because fashion, to her, is a form of art yet due to environmental considerations that she has, she believes that a designer should make an outfit which can be re-worn. The contemporary fashion designers she admires are Thom Browne, Simone Rocha and Glenn Martens. Saveri admires Stella McCartney for her commitment towards the environment. Her dream is to someday make a woman’s dream dress like Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel did in her era- a dress that would define the era itself. She describes herself as a somewhat shy and sincere person. Her work comes first for me. The fact that she loves the most about fashion designing is that it isn’t passive - “it constantly challenges me to think out of the box and to keep raising the bar every time.”