Pritam Panda

Saturday, August 06, 2011

Tats about PP.... journey till now in brief....

Indian CineStar and Celebrity Chitrangada Singh in a cream saree inspired cream embellished evening ensemble from Designer Pritam Panda's latest wedding line 2011...

Indian Celeb Koena Mitra in a PP hitched skirt ,tweel top and a clutch 2009

SuperModel PadmaLakshmi in a Silver Hued Silk dress
PP with Socialite client


PP with Hot Indian celeb Mallika Sherawat

Super Model turned Actress Mugdha Godsey in a PP-purple evening gown 2011
Singer Dolly Parton in PritamPanda Au-W'11,perform during Marty Stuart's 10th Annual Late Night Jam at the Ryman Auditorium on July 8 2011 in Nashvilles Tennessee.
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From establishing a Fashion Institute to set a platform for the gen-next in the locales of Orissa to setting up racks at High-end luxury stores like Harrods and Al-Zaheer across the globe to endorsing the world's best fitness brand Technogym...From dressing the world's most stunning ladies like Dolly Prton,Mariam Farres and Koena Mitra to outfitting sensuous supermodels like Malaika Arrora Khan, Padmalaxmi,Ujjwala Routh to wrapping the most talked out brides of India and UK... From receiving honors by the government and several private organizations at this young age for his way-out efforts of promoting Remote Indian Art & Craft on an international forefront to bagging membership with the prestigious GAFC & Fashion Council for expertise in his field to be the 3rd Indian to be a member of the CSDLC,Paris...

Pritam Panda has come a long way to be a pride to his state,coutry and countryman...An average student till 1999 at the St.Vincent's Convent School and then till 2001 in commerce stream,at the Fakir Mohan College in Balasore,PP inspired from his designer sisiter Payal Panda (a graduate of  LONDON COLLEGE OF FASHION) headed to the city of joy Kolkata to cherish his chilhood dreams of making a mark in the Fashion industry and joined The Bhowanipore Education Society College-VAA,completing his one year course with flying colors and being awarded as the Best Student of the College and being selected to join the WLC,UK. But, situations and circumstances forced him to abandon his further studies at the age of 19 as he struggled a livelihood getting commisioned for his designes from two small fashion stores in the city.The hardlogged days with a design job from 10-4 and  a garment tech job from 5-10,nurtured PP with not only the realms and myths of the design basics but also that of LIFE.
Year 2002 (after a short & profound training under late Alexander McQueen) only heralded the humble beginning of the label catering to a few domestic stores and today in a span of 9 years, boasts a team of 8 assistant designers, 62 artisans, 20 seamsters to form the VKY-House of Fashion with an
official website < www.pritampayal.com > catering to almost every part of the globe. His label caters to select high-end stores in New Dehli, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, London, Manchester, Bradford, Phuket, Bangkok, Malaysia, France, Dubai, Beirut, Cairo & Dhaka apart from his sales domain on
http://www.dmi-india.com/showcase9.html .
PP in the Men'sWorld Magazine
PP is one of the very few Indian Designers to have a runway in Paris,31st May,2011 and was also honoured by a specialisation Masters by the ECOLE  NORMALE  SUPERE,Montrougue,France.
Today Pritam Panda stands apart as the youngest ever entrepreneur to win the World Chopard Young Entrepreneurs Award-2010 and is the 3rd Indian to be honoured a space in the Chambre Syndicalle de La Couture,Paris to display his creation. Aiming to promote the state textile and handicraft via his ellaborate and much applauded state of art creation, he has been extensively tryig to develope designes out of local textiles and thus promote the weaving community of Odissa selflessly. PPhttp://www.telegraphindia.com/1100803/jsp/orissa/story_12760250.jsp,  a sorted public figure, with thousands of fans and followers ,is counted amongt the top 25 most sorted out celebrity in his state according to an ace national news edition, in influencing the country's youth population.

The jump start moment for him was his association with an ace Asian designer store in the UK. Of late, has also ventured into promoting Orissan hand-woven silk fabric with his signature surface ornamentations through sampling for fashion houses overseas. Thanks to the global design sensibility coupled with the best of business ability, the label is more than able to satisfy the consumer demands of a traditional Indian bride, a contemporary South Asian woman or an eclectic cosmopolitan style diva.

1 comment:

  1. Hey amazing to have you from Odissa..your a proud

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