Manish Arora

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Model in a Manish Arora design (Spring 2007 collection) at London Fashion Week

Manish Arora is an Indian fashion designer based in New Delhi whose collections have been shown in London Fashion Week and in India.

[edit] History

In 1997 Manish Arora launched his Label "Manish Arora" and started retailing in India. Three years later in 2000, Manish represented India at the Hong Kong Fashion Week and participated at the first ever India Fashion Week held in New Delhi. The following year Manish launched his second Label "Fish Fry" and showed this collection in six leading cities in India and was stocked at Lord & Taylor, New York.

During 2002 Manish opened his first flagship store Manish Arora Fish Fry in New Delhi and in 2003 opened his second flagship store in the commercial capital of India, Mumbai. He had a successful showing at India Fashion Week in Mumbai and started stocking at Maria Luisa Paris starting a successful export business.

During 2004 he was awarded the Best Women's Prêt Designer at the first ever Indian Fashion Awards' 2004 held in Bombay and MC2 Diffusion Paris started representing the Label for the export business. The following year Manish participated in the Miami Fashion Week in May 2005 where he was presented with the designer's choice for Best Collection Award.

He had a successful debut at the London Fashion Week in September 2005 and received an overwhelming response from the press as well as the buyers. Manish Arora also collaborated with Reebok to design a collection of shoes under the brand Fish Fry for Reebok.

He opened his flagship store in December 2005 at Lodhi Colony Market in New Delhi. Manish exhibited some of his work at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London for an exhibition called "Global Local" in association with the British Council, India.

In 2006 he confirmed himself to be a fashion designer of great potential during his second showing in February receiving rave reviews from coveted fashion journalists like Hilary Alexander, Suzy Menkes, Lisa Armstrong in all the leading publications. He is stocked at 75 well known stores worldwide.^{[citation needed]}

A coveted fashion jury in a leading Indian publication OUTLOOK adjudged him to be the Best Indian Fashion Designer and featured him on the cover of its March 2006 issue. Manish opened his first Manish Arora franchise store in Villa Moda, Kuwait and another Manish Arora Fish Fry store at Crescent at The Qutub, New Delhi in 2006.

In 2007 the first Fish Fry for Reebok concept store opened at the Garden of Five Senses, New Delhi and Manish teamed up with make up & cosmetics giant MAC for designing a signature collection. He has also collaborated with Swatch for a limited edition of watches.

"Indian by Manish Arora" a brand designed for the growing Indian market for women's wear is licensed to another reputed fashion company. Manish was invited to show his collection at the very prestigious “Fashion in Motion” held at Victoria and Albert Museum, London in September of 2007.

Manish will be showing his Spring/Summer -2008 collection during the Paris Fashion Week.