Sucheta
Merh is also a talented painter who started designing oyer nine years
ago. She specialises in working with mixed media, using vegetable and
mud dyes, combined with prints and hand embroidery. Through long experience,
she has developed her individual style, ushering in an era of naturalisation
through the use of a combination of patchwork prints, surface ornamentation
and texturisation. The emphasis of her collection is on ethnicity and
urban chic. With each garment characterised by the combination of colour,
design and stylish cuts. Sucheta’s collections, which are mostly
fusion pret, incorporate such materials as cotton, khadi, crepe and georgette.
Her creations are available at Zenon in Calcutta as well as leading stores
in Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Mumbai.
Sucheta evokes
a sense of simplicity in her fabrics through the use of natural dyes,
hand embroidery and textile woven on loom. Her clothes have retailed from
Ffolio, Ogaan, Melange, Oorja, Elahe, Origins, Designer Studio and Elan.
Today her clothes are also displayed at her personalised fashion studio
'Early Myths' in Kolkata.