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Marie-Claire Mexico: Erin Wasson in Vaishali S
Erin Wasson in Vaishali S for the cover-edit of Marie-Claire Mexico, October Issue! She wears the Metallic Silk Corded Dress from our Beneath Collection, and we're proud for this to be a step further in pushing Indian hand-weaves onto a global...
ELLE India: Vaishali featured as a part of the DNA of Indian fashion!
Our founder, Vaishali Shadangule, was featured on August 2023's ELLE India's feature on the DNA of Indian Fashion. Designers with distinct legacies and cumulative cultural consciousness had been recognised, and credited as the changemakers of Indian fashion. We're proud to be shaping...
Vaishali at TedXBocconiUMumbai
This month, our founder, Vaishali Shadangule, had the pleasure of being invited to talk at TedXBocconiUMumbai. Narrating her journey from a sheltered small-town girl running from home all the way to her accolades as the first Indian female fashion designer...
Vaishali Shadangule Took Paris Haute Couture Week By Storm Yet Again
Vaishali Shadangule Took Paris Haute Couture Week By Storm Yet Again Vaishali Shadangule made it to the prestigious Paris Haute Couture Week yet another year with her most recent couture collection, ‘Abyss.’ She is the first and only Indian female designer to...
A New Narrative - Vaishali Shadangule's dedication to bring Indian workmanship to the forefront of an emerging global conversation remain steadfastly committed" by Meheernaz Dhondy, Grazia.
A New Narrative - Vaishali Shadangule's dedication to bring Indian workmanship to the forefront of an emerging global conversation remains steadfastly committed" by Meheernaz Dhondy, Grazia.
The dream looks of Haute Couture spring/summer 2023 by Alessandro Argentini, Marie Claire
Vaishali S is listed in the top looks from Paris Haute Couture 2023.
ELLE: Vaishali S Decodes ‘Ancestral Threads’ At Milan Fashion Week S/S23 - "My mission is to revive Indian hand weaves by giving them a language that can be understood"
After making her international debut with Milan Fashion Week last year and topping it off with Paris Couture Week—Vaishali S returned to MFW for her second outing to showcase, ‘Ancestral Threads’. Her love for nature and its significance in her...
VOGUE: American actress Karrueche Tran graced the red carpet in this Indian label
Karrueche Train showed up to the much-anticipated sequel to Black Panther (2018)—Wakanda Forever in a corded gold number from Indian label Vaishali S. Couture. The film, whiich is set to mark its release globally on the 11th of November 2022, is...
Meet Vaishali Shadangule, the first female Indian designer to present a collection at Paris Couture Week
Set to make her Haute Couture debut in Paris with a live showcase, the designer is putting Indian textiles on to the global map. 
Who is Vaishali Shadangule, the first Indian woman designer to partake in Paris Fashion Week?
The 43-year-old designer has had an incredible journey. Founder of the eponymous brand Vaishali S, she started in the year 2001. But her story begins even before that...
Vaishali S Is Set To Showcase At Paris Haute Couture Week 2021
It’s official. Paris Haute Couture Week will make a physical return this year with full-fledged presentations and shows in place. Slated to be held from July 5 to July 8 in the alluring French capital, Indian fashion designer Vaishali S...
Fashion designer Vaishali Shadangule’s struggle-to-success story is truly inspirational
Not many find their life’s calling for the longest time. But Vaishali Shadangule, 41, dared to give up the comforts of her home in Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh, at a tender age of 18, only to discover her passion in fashion and designing. Have had faced many hurdles while making a mark in the glamorous city of Mumbai, Shadangule gradually found the strength in her voice, and is now giving voice to hundreds of local craftsmen on a global platform through her eponymous label Vaishali S, founded in 2001.
ELLEExclusive: Vaishali S On Her Flagship Store Completing A Year In Mumbai
Known for creating wearable art from handwoven textiles with inspirations drawn from nature, Vaishali Shadangule’s eponymous label, Vaishali S is one to watch out for. Having worked with over 900 weavers and explored 14 different weaving techniques, the fashion designer is committed to highlighting Indian craftsmanship through her designs. She has also gained an international presence as she has showcased her work at New York Fashion Week five times since 2015.
In conversation with VAISHALI S who walked khunn at NYFW
Vaishali S is a Sustainability veteran. Her choice of fabrics, design outlines and the stubbornness to work with Indian weaves caught my attention. The fact that she walked her designs at the New York Fashion Week clearly spells her love...
Khunn on the NYFW Runway
“I have always believed that our handloom culture needs to be promoted and put out there so that the world can appreciate and enjoy it. Our weavers deserve all that and more for the skill and passion that they display...
Designer Vaishali Shadangule on dedicating her new collection to the khun fabric
“The weave originally employed motifs inspired by the local Badami Fort and its architecture, with faces of goddesses, animals and geometric shapes woven in. I thought it’s such a wonderful weave, why confine it to a blouse?” - Vaishali Shadangule...
zuria dor & vaishali s brought south asian modernism & heritage to jakarta fashion week
Vaishali S has been skillfully taking hundreds of years of tradition and breathing a new life into it. So far, the label has presented 19 collections in a number of international events, from Lakme Fashion Week to New York Fashion...
Vaishali s at Lakme' fashion week summer/resort 2020
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Vaishali S unveils new collection at New York Fashion Week
'Paroksh- Fall/ Winter 18 emerges taking inspiration from a tiny occurrence of an incident on the infinite fabric of consciousness personified as a pattern of seed and fruit. We easily acknowledge the fruit as incident unaware about the seed, which...
Vaishali S to again showcase at New York Fashion Week
Vaishali S's collection will be presented amongst other illustrious names such as Zac Posen, Oscar De La Renta, Carolina Herrera, Alexander Wang and Marc Jacobs, the statement read further. 2017 Read More
Vaishali S to showcase Autumn/Winter 2017 collection at New York Fashion Week
The primary motive of this collection goes back to my love for textiles. When I came across the idea of YAJNA, I could easily relate it with the textile where a thread merges itself to give birth to a textile.”...