Lakme India Fashion Week 2003 :: Hemant Trevedi

Hemant Trevedi - Fashion Stylist, choreographer, design professor and undoubtedly, one of India's foremost and most important fashion designers.

He graduated from the Australian Technical Institute of Fashion Design and furtherd training at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York.

International labels have pursued him and yet he returned to India in early 1980 as one of the first professionally qualified fashion designers, because "This is a land that I call my own.

I was born exposed to colour of every hue, in a country rich in culture and diverse in its people. How could I ever live elsewhere when India, as an inspiration has it all!

Ultimately, my aim is to make a contribution in quality growth towards the Indian Fashion Industry and not live in an insular or directionless world".

Today, Hemant is Fashion Director at Sheetal, India's leading fashion store. He has also been associated as design professor at S.N.D.T University at Mumbai, India for the past 20 years.

Trevedi has presented some of the most breath taking fashion presentations both in India and overseas, including countries such as U.K., U.S.A., China, Egypt, Mauritius, Sri Lanka, U.A.E., and the Far East.

His most impressive artistic direction has been seen at the Femina Miss India pageants for which he is in charge of choreography and grooming of the pageant delegates.

He has launched the careers of hundreds of fledging models and turned many into virtual super-stars.

He is a man who has created the winning wardrobes for several former Beauty Queens and particularly for Miss World 1995 Aishwarya Rai and Miss World 1998 Diana Hayden, who besides countless others, remains his most favourite client and the present Miss World 2000 Priyanka Chopra

Trevedi's contribution to the Indian fashion scene cannot be denied. Being one of the first professionally qualified designers in India, he has a feel for the industry and its growth.

While he does not seek the limelight, it is equally difficult to ignore him. Many a fashion critic has said that Hemant has the uncanny ability to predict a "look" well ahead of time. His creations have often become trendsetters and he has a faithful clientele to prove it.

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