Designer Payal Jain established her studio in Delhi's Hauz Khas Village in the early 1990s after graduating from FIDM in California.
Her career spans dressing Bollywood actors including Deepika Padukone and Anushka Sharma, designing uniforms for luxury hotel chains, and authoring India's first CBSE-approved fashion textbook.
Her atelier emphasizes slow fashion, working closely with rural women artisans and traditional Indian textiles like Varanasi handlooms and Awadh chikankari.