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Ashish
Ashish
Ashish’s beginnings are bound to a kind of journey of initiation between fate and provi-
dence, a tumultuous swinging back and forth that guided the bright star of this young
designer at the outset of his career. When Ashish completed his master’s degree at presti-
gious Central Saint Martins, he gathered up all of his work and set off to Paris to seek his
fortune. Before even emerging from the Gare du Nord train station, however, his portfolio
had been robbed. Penniless, he was forced to return to his native India. ere, and with
little pretense, he created a small collection with which he would return to London. As fate ...