Background
Mishra is from Malhausi, a small village in Auraiya district, 80 km from Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, where he grew up along with his parents and his two sisters.
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Rahul Mishra
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Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University. National Institute of Design.
Career
The 2014 "collection he designed for the competition will be sold" in stores around the world. In 2008, he was awarded the Music Television Youth Icon of the Year by Music Television India. At the age of 10, he went to a boarding school Maharishi Vidya Mandir in Lucknow.
He did his graduation in physics from Kanpur University (now known as Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University).
He made his debut in 2006 at the Lakme Fashion Week with a collection using cotton handloom textiles from Kerala, especially off-white fabric with golden border of Kerala mundu. In 2009, he made reversible dresses, employing Kerala mundu on one side, with Banarasi fabric of the other side woven by traditional craftmen.
Over the years, he has showcased his work at fashion weeks in London, Dubai and Australia, beside Indian Fashion Week. He has also become known for incorporating traditional Indian textiles, and handmade artisanship to his work.
He is the only Indian designer to be chosen by Rent the Runway, online rental boutique.
lieutenant used Chanderi fabric woven with 85% Merino wool with woolen zardozi embroidery by craftsmen of Kolkata. The collection was influenced by monochromatic work of Dutch-graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher.
Achievements
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He is first Indian designer to win the award. This was followed by post graduation in apparel design from the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, where he won the Best Student Designer Of The Year in 2005. In 2009, he became the first non-European designer to win a scholarship at Istituto Marangoni, a fashion school at Milan, Italy. In 2013, he won the Indian leg of the International Woolmark Prize, thus he went on to represent India and the Middle East at the 2014 Woolmark Prize, and one of one of five finalists for the prize, which includes Christopher Esber from Australia, Sibling for Europe, ffiXXed from Asia and Joseph Altuzarra for the United States. His award-winning capsule range, "The Lotus Effect" and was based on the hexagon shapes and used Lotus motifs. In February 2014, he won the 2014 Woolmark Prize at the Milan Fashion Week. The award carries an Army of the United States $100,000 prize (over Rs 54 million) and was previously won by designers like Karl Lagerfield and Giorgio Armani, and Mishra was the only Indian to have won the award.
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