Custom Design
You are not choosing a garment from a rail. You are deciding, with us, what gets made: the silhouette, the cloth, where the embroidery sits and how heavy it is, and whether anything on the piece is personal to you. Because the hand embroidery, Zardozi, Aari work and hand-painting are done in-house by our own karigars, a motif can be drawn for your garment rather than lifted from a catalogue.
Starting From a Reference
Bring images. They are the fastest way to show what you respond to, and we would rather see ten than none. What we do with them is adapt: the proportions that make a photographed garment work belong to that piece and that body. On you, the same idea may need a different length, a different buttoning point or a lighter hand with the embroidery. The result should look like the reference in spirit and like you in the mirror.
Starting From Nothing
Plenty of grooms arrive with only an occasion and a feeling: restrained, or regal, or modern. That is enough. We start from the venue, the time of day and the light, choose cloth against those, and draw the motif afterwards, because embroidery designed before the fabric is chosen almost always fights it.
Personal Details
- Monograms: initials worked in thread or painted, usually placed quietly, inside the placket, under the collar, on a cuff or in the lining.
- Family symbols and crests: a motif that means something to your family, redrawn at the right scale for a garment.
- Dates and names: discreet, and usually better hidden than displayed.
- Hand-painted artwork: original painting on cloth where you want art rather than thread. See our hand-painted pieces.
Coordinating With the Bride
We work from a swatch, a photograph or the outfit details. The aim is a relationship, not a match: a shared colour family, an echoed motif, or a neutral outfit with one accent drawn from her palette. Identical rarely photographs as well as deliberate. Our colour guide covers pairings, undertones and what to avoid.
What We Don’t Do
We don’t cut client-supplied cloth. Every commission comes from our own fabric library, so we can stand behind how the finished garment hangs and wears. If you have a specific weave, weight or colour in mind, describe it at the consultation and we will match it from cloth we know.
How a Design Becomes a Garment
Design decisions are made at the consultation, the pattern is drafted from roughly 20 to 25 of your measurements, and the embroidery is worked in-house. One fitting is standard before the garment is finished, and alterations are covered for one month after delivery or until you wear it, whichever comes first. The full process is on how we work, and finished commissions with construction notes are in our case studies.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I bring a reference image?
Yes, and it helps. References tell us what you respond to: a silhouette, a colour, a density of embroidery. We work from them rather than copying another label’s piece outright, because the proportions that make an image work belong to that garment and that body, not yours.
Can you design something completely original?
Yes. Because the embroidery is worked in-house, a motif can be drawn for your garment rather than picked from a catalogue, then placed so it meets cleanly at the placket, collar and seams. Hand-painting is available where you want artwork rather than thread.
Can you put my initials or a family symbol on the outfit?
Yes. Monograms and custom motifs are part of what we do, including a family symbol, a date or a crest, worked in thread or painted by hand. Placement is usually somewhere quiet: inside the placket, under the collar, on a cuff or a lining.
Can you design the groom’s outfit around the bride’s?
Yes, and it is one of the most common requests. We work from a swatch, a reference photo or the bride’s outfit details, usually echoing a colour family or a motif for the ceremony and reception looks rather than matching exactly, which photographs better.
Can I choose the embroidery density and colour?
Yes. Density, placement and thread colour are all decisions you make with us, and lighter or more restrained work is often the better call for a daytime ceremony or a heavily decorated venue.
Can I bring my own fabric for a custom design?
No. Every commission is cut from our own fabric library, so we can stand behind how the garment hangs and wears. Tell us the weave, weight and colour you have in mind and we will match it from cloth we have worked with.
Can you make coordinated outfits for my family or groomsmen?
Yes. The usual approach is a shared palette and repeated detail rather than identical outfits, so the family reads as one group in photographs while the groom still stands apart.
Bring Your References
Screenshots, a colour you like, your bride’s swatch, or nothing at all. Book a consultation at our Basavanagudi studio, or start remotely through our NRI and remote service.