Making a Case

Reppatch is a dynamic community of over 50 brands and artists worldwide, dedicated to transforming waste into unique, high-quality products. With a focus on upcycling and slow production, Reppatch collaborates with corporate partners to creatively repurpose their waste, turning environmental challenges into innovative opportunities. Passionate entrepreneur and Founder Nil Karul shares how she combines her professional expertise with her lifelong interest in upcycling and creative reuse.

When a practising lawyer decided to start a rent-your-clothes service in India way back in 2016, in a market where rental is still quite a taboo, she slogged at all levels—from the warehouse to the retail store and even home-delivered orders to customers. Her company, valued at ₹500 million, today rents out 300 garments each day. Aanchal Saini, Chief Executive Officer of the country's first and largest fashion rental company, Flyrobe, recounts her journey.

A New Delhi-based just-minted startup is formalising the business of retailing yards and yards of the timeless Indian drape in your living room. The heritage weaves from all over the country also have an online platform.

When aesthetics were coming at a price too dear, a techie-packaging pair of friends seized the gap in the market to launch a “reasonably priced” home fashion brand — Vaaree. A year on, it has had one seed round, and in the last few months the 50% month-on-month growth, brings hope for greater things in the future. A texfash.com exclusive.

The urge to gift an enduring piece of Punjab’s legacy, and the lack of it, led to the setting up of Aab Label, a contemporary brand that draws inspiration from the hand-embroidered heritage craft of phulkari. Founder Shreya Mehra shares her story.

From the anvil of hope to sole-sinking despair to cobbling up a footwear brand, perhaps the only to be manufactured by jailbirds in a prison, Inmate, with the tagline ‘Bringing Humanity to Leather’, is a story that now braids success. A first person account from the Founder.

SustainKart retails only sustainable products, claiming to be India's first-ever and largest ‘responsible’ e-commerce platform that currently hosts over 1100 brands and 93,000 SKUs (including fashion), aiming to revamp closets and households with conscious products. The mission is to change the spending pattern of Indians for their lifestyle commodities. SustainKart targets becoming a unicorn by mid-2023. Dutt talks to texfash.com about his journey that began when he was all of 12 years.