Raghavendra Rathore

Raghavendra Rathore
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Fashion designer
Labels	Brand India

Raghavendra Rathore is an internationally trained fashion designer, whose fashion empire is the first name of luxury out of India. His brand, the Raghavendra Rathore label is synonymous with the Jodhpuri Bandhgala suits, that he has meticulously, nurtured, evolved and made famous internationally. He was one of the first designers to use the “Brand India”, positioning for a fashion company. Other lifestyle businesses that he works with are in interior design, wedding and events design, accessories and jewellery.

Rathore was born and raised in Jodhpur, Rajasthan and is a member of the royal family of Jodhpur—a cousin of ‘‘Maharaja’’ Gaj Singh of Jodhpur. He studied in Jodhpur until the age of eight and after his school was bombed during the Indo-Pak war, he was sent off to the Mayo College boarding school in Ajmer, where he finished his intermediate schooling. Soon after he set sail to the US, where he studied a variety of Liberal Arts from Anthropology, Astronomy , Modern American Fiction , and Robotics at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He then studied Arts and Philosophy at the Marlboro College in Vermont, and went on to graduate from the Parsons School of Design, New York City, in 1992.

After graduating from Parsons, Rathore went to work for Donna Karan as an assistant designer for DKNY. He then worked at the high design atelier of Oscar de la Renta, he assisted Mr. De la Renta as his assistant. He worked in Paris with Mr. De la Renta, when Mr de la Renta was hired to design for the house of Pierre Balmain.

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