In-conversation With Vandana Vinod – Mini Me

 


What sparked your interest in fashion?

As a child I always loved smaller things in life, little beautiful things in life, colours, textures kind of, you know anything you can take in fabrics, So I used to be that all beautiful things that was there, so I was very much interested in all these trumps, young age plus, I had an art super fashionable, she is to be wearing all kinds of clothes in fabrics, from different areas in India, and plus even my dad , that is further used to go abroad and get fabrics so that kind of fabrics, fabrics from all over the country, and from all over the world. I used to really enjoy a dressing up  and dressing up dolls as a child, so all that really matters, how falls a fabric falling, all this everything I was very interesting from my young age, then I started working and studying home science in textiles, so from there it , and I am still studying.

 

Are you self taught or did you study fashion design?

Yes, I did study fashion design i am from IIFT banglore, 2003 batch. Then later on, I started working and then after few years of working I did my course in, that is management in cent martins in London before that I was definitely self taught before I got an admission in IIFT, I was doing home science, lots of textiles involved in lot of garment manufacturers involved in that, So before that I was I had little bit of training and before home science I always loved how to stitched clothes for dolls and stitched clothes for little little cousin of mine. So, it is self taught in the beginning but later I did professional course.

 

How has your work evolved since you began your own label?

When I set my label, I set with doing a cotton clothes, cotton dresses for kids, because my daughter was also small so i did lot of comfort clothing but then i started a shop, from there my customer basis started, the customer base they want a lot of ethnic garments, because in India there is so many festivals, so got from western wear, I still do western wear, and I still do cotton. But from there I started doing an Indian wear, Indian wear is definitely beautiful, I mean there is lot of fabrics involved all that so, yeh thats so beautiful.

 

What do you keep on mind while designing clothes for kids?

I would definitely say comfort, safety and style is definitely there, but safety and comfort comes priority, comfort in the way that kids have very sensitive skin, so you need to have a breathable fabrics, some that didn't scratch them, even a little thread or a label also scratch them, So I make sure that soft corner, I make sure the comfort factors more a prominent because they turned around, So inner clothes. So that something loved to wear, they should enjoying wearing it., And the other safety part I remember I was working in different export house they are very particular, they don't put any buttons or beads. Even they put buttons they very well secure, its very one thing that I learned when I was in export house, when I doing for brands for abroad brands, so these things, even for my kids don't do lot of embroidery which includes lots of beads and all, because anything can chock if its gone into the mouth, its so that I really look into it. Then styles have to look like kids, I don't like the look line mini adults, I definitely style them up that the look so culpable so they look like gift wrap, that’s the things I keep in mind.

 

 

What advice would you give to young designer?

I would say build your network, keep connected with the right people and fashion events, talk to as many people in the same field that is your net worth, second is build your portfolio, trying work with as mini fashion designer as possible as mini top labels possible, so these are the two things.

 

Thank you.

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