
Mithas’s line started with a concentrate on enjoyable, whimsical button-up shirts, which have turn into his signature piece. The brand new spring 2023 assortment contains trip prepared kite-embroidered camp collar shirts, mild jackets with floral lace paneling, and dip-dyed trousers. “Plenty of our prospects specifically order our items for his or her particular events or getaways,” says Mithas, who needs his items to evoke a way of pleasure and light-weight. “My design motto is ‘a unending celebration of life.’ An individual can put on our items on their subsequent getaway, or simply for dinner on a Monday night,” he says.
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Journey, naturally, influences his garments. “I’ve been lucky sufficient to journey to quite a lot of cities around the globe and expertise totally different cultures,” says the designer. “Plenty of our prints and embroideries from our assortment begin out with images that I take throughout my travels as references.” Within the latest spring 2023 assortment, as an illustration, sure items featured a hand-beaded sundown seashore scene on them. They have been impressed by Mithas’s “reminiscences from our household’s annual trip to the seashores throughout summers.”
Along with placing ahead a colourful aesthetic, the designer additionally wished to make use of his model to highlight the beautiful craftsmanship present in his native India. All the pieces is made by native artisans and craftwork artists in-house. “I at all times felt that, though India has been the spine of the style business for the longest time, it by no means actually bought the worldwide recognition it deserves,” says Mithas. “Particularly with menswear, there hasn’t been a model out of India which highlighted and introduced out the wealthy Indian historical past and craftsmanship on a worldwide scale.”