For celebrity fashion designers, labels or brands bearing their names work well in terms of marketing, publicity and more importantly, they resonate hugely with their fans. Customers are assured of the best of looks and trends of the season, and a high fashion quotient is achieved when sporting these luxury designer wear.

Not surprising then that the top ten luxury clothing brands are named after their celebrity creators, with variations of their names that include some sub-brands, or sub-brands with names unconnected with the designer’s names, but fans know best, when their favourite luxury items and trends bear the signature of their much-adored fashion designers.

Manish Malhotra

The Manish Malhotra luxury fashion brand was founded by Manish Malhotra a Mumbai-based couturier, costume stylist, and revivalist. Very popular amongst the film (Bollywood) fraternity, ‘Manish Malhotra’ designed costumes have not only groomed characters in blockbuster films but have fashionably dressed movie stars to create their personal styles ‘off screen’, just as much.

Film industries of not just Bollywood, but Telegu, Tamil, Hollywood television, and the fashion worlds, have benefitted from adorning Manish Malhotra ensembles which set out to redefine the look of characters, especially in Indian cinema.

The design house’s creative output and production lines have in the process of fabricating fashion clothing, revived and helped preserve some of the country’s long-forgotten crafts.

The collection ‘Nooraniyat – The Bridal Edit’ (2021), is all about intricately woven and embellished extravagantly, and using fabrics and finishes with striking colors that generate several emotions through the craftsmanship.

Sabyasachi

The ‘Sabya Wedding’ is a moniker used for a certain brand of Indian weddings witnessed at home and away, for a look that blends the traditional and modern.

‘Sabyasachi’, the luxury fashion clothing brand is truly a ‘labor of love by the much-celebrated fashion designer, Sabyasachi Mukherjee. The Kolkata-based couturier has further forayed into jewelry designing, and soon established his brand through a robust retail presence online, and in exclusive physical stores.

Launched in 1999, ‘Sabyasachi soon became a global luxury designer label that beautifully blends modern designs with traditional techniques on textiles. India’s largest and most influential designer brand stands for strong ethnic roots that have far-reaching global appeal. Extravagance and luxury, are descriptions synonymous with Sabyasachi’s ethnic bridal wear.