about me

The maker

Fashion & textile designer, New Delhi. Lead Fashion Designer at Dressfolk.

Portrait of Mansi Pandey

I'm a fashion and textile designer based in New Delhi. I graduated with a B.Des in Fashion Design from the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), where I specialised in couture and styling and built a practice around handloom, embroidery, and considered, craft-led cloth.

Since then I've designed for MAKU Textiles in Kolkata and for péro in New Delhi, and I'm now Lead Fashion Designer at Dressfolk, a handloom label built around India's textile heritage. Alongside that I keep my own collections — from MAKU's letters-to-summer palette to the defence-brat story of B.R.A.T — working in handloom, jamdani, block print, and aari and banjara embroidery, made in small craft clusters across India.

I'm available for freelance and collaborative work — commissions, collections, and textile projects.

Currently

updated by hand
Designing
Leading design at Dressfolk.
Working in
Handloom, jamdani, block print, and hand embroidery.
Open to
Freelance and collaborative work.
Based in
New Delhi, India.

Practice

A stitched timeline

  1. 2026–now

    Lead Fashion Designer — Dressfolk

    Dressfolk

    Leading design for the handloom label — sarees, blouses, and ready-to-wear rooted in India's textile heritage.

  2. 2024–26

    Fashion Designer — péro

    New Delhi

    Design for the slow, hand-detailed womenswear label.

  3. 2022–24

    Fashion Designer — MAKU Textiles

    Kolkata

    Handloom and natural-dye design with the West Bengal craft studio.

  4. 2018–22

    B.Des, Fashion Design — NIFT

    National Institute of Fashion Technology

    Specialised in couture and styling, with a minor in fashion accessories. Graduate collection B.R.A.T drew on a defence-forces upbringing.