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Deepak Perwani
Deepak Perwani
Since the beginning of his career, Deepak Perwani has been one of the most distinguished
designers in his native country of Pakistan. In 1994, at the age of just twenty, he launched
his fi rst collection, which also happened to be the fi rst men’s collection ever in Pakistan,
where until then fashion had been an exclusively female domain. e collection was based
on a reconstruction of the sherwani, a long, coatlike garment worn in South Asia, and it
turned Deepak into the enfant terrible of Pakistani fashion.
Later he began designing for women, as well. Currently, he designs four lines a year for men
and ...