College of Style is proud and lucky to have such an exquisite staff of artistic and entrepreneurial instructors keen to share their data and experience. In our 14th yr as the primary and largest on-line trend schooling useful resource, we now have maintained the of highest requirements when deciding on our lecturers.
This week’s weblog put up is a continuation of our teacher highlight collection and can concentrate on the work of Rishabh Manocha, creator of our 13-part menswear collection, whose ardour and respect for bespoke craftsmanship has made him one in every of UOF’s hottest instructors.
RISHABH MANOCHA
Rishabh Manocha carrying his bespoke swimsuit handcrafted in material by Dormeuil (Picture credit score: @kirktruman)
Rishabh Manocha is a New York Metropolis based mostly designer and bespoke tailor who established his eponymous label in 2017. An alum of Parsons Faculty of Design and Central Saint Martins, Rishabh credit his schooling with Savile Row tailors for the technical soundness that enhances his conceptual designs.
Rishabh Manocha (Picture credit score: @kirktruman)
Artisanal integrity, sartorial heritage and the form-function dialogue, are integral features of Rishabh’s work. Expounding norms of bespoke tailoring as a method to understanding the human psyche is a basic tenet of the label. Rishabh travels extensively to analysis Italian French and UK mills and denim from Japan.
A Rishabh Manocha bespoke swimsuit in pre-fitting (Picture credit score: Rishabh Manocha)
As a grasp of bespoke tailoring methods, Rishabh carries out these methods personally for his males’s and ladies’s bespoke commissions throughout the USA, UK and the Center East.
Bespoke tailoring methods by Rishabh Manocha (Picture credit score: Rishabh Manocha)
Rishabh Manocha’s basted bespoke swimsuit (Picture credit score: Rishabh Manocha)
Deeply pushed by sustainability, moral sourcing practices and clear provide chain, Rishabh not too long ago co-founded Lehzaa, (in Urdu means particular person model), an e-commerce girls’s ready-to-wear label with Omani enterprise companion Mrs. Mrunal Khimji. Watch for his or her tender launch in Could 2023 at www.lehzaa.com
Co-founders of Lehzaa – Mrs. Mrunal Khimji and Rishabh Manocha (Picture credit score: Rishabh Manocha)
Along with his bespoke enterprise, final yr Rishabh branched out into leatherwork, creating wallets and briefcases to go with his clothes.
Rishabh Manocha leatherwear: wallets & briefcases (Picture credit score: Rishabh Manocha)
In accordance with Rishabh, the world is altering. He claims that along with his purchasers having an eye fixed for craftmanship, they search sustainably made clothes that may stand the check of time… and they’re keen to pay for it. His design philosophy encompasses:
- Utilizing sustainably sourced materials from Italy and England
- Specializing in silhouettes designed to flatter each physique sort
- Making clothes from recycled and upcycled actual fur which might be made in NYC
- Creating a variety of bespoke leather-based items for the discerning accent wearer
Rishabh Manocha pad-stitched bespoke swimsuit jacket (Picture credit score: Rishabh Manocha)
When not along with his measuring tape, Rishabh devotes time to studying yoga, languages, and gastronomy. His imaginative and prescient is to see a extra acutely aware and empowered client, ‘one garment a time’.
View Rishabh’s UOF menswear classes:
Measuring the Male Physique, Drafting a Males’s Higher Physique Block, Drafting a Males’s Shirt Block, Drafting a Males’s Trouser Block, Drafting a Males’s Set-in Sleeve Sloper, Drafting a Males’s One-piece Jacket Sleeve from Measurements, Drafting a Males’s Pleated Trouser, Drafting a Males’s Higher Physique Jacket Block, Drafting a Males’s Hoodie, Drafting a Males’s Basic 2-Button Single-Breasted Jacket, Besom/Jetted Flap Pocket, Drafting a Males’s Jacket Lining, Dealing with & Interfacings, Drafting a Males’s Two-Piece Jacket Sleeve.
Extra about Rishabh
Rishabh Manocha ceaselessly teaches one-on-one on-line classes in sample drafting and tailoring. For more information contact him immediately at data@rishabhmanocha.com
Observe him @rmanochabespoke
Go to his web site rishabhmanocha.com