Dipika Gupta
Dipika Gupta is an Canadian fashion designer and alumnus of Toronto’s George Brown. She is the creative director and founder of KAVI KAVI, a contemporary womenswear brand, renowned for decadent and hand embroidered modern ready-to-wear pieces.
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 Dipika Gupta at the final night of Spring/Summer 2014 edition of Ottawa Fashion Week. | |
| Born | Zambia |
| Nationality | Canadian |
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| Alma mater | University of Toronto George Brown College |
| Occupation | Fashion Designer |
| Years active | 2003-present |
| Known for | Kavi Kavi |
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Early life and career
Gupta was born in Zambia to Vinod Gupta and Sudha Gupta and spent her early life in India before moving to Ottawa. She studied accounting and economics at the University of Toronto and fashion designing at George Brown College.[1] Gupta learned sewing from her mother and sold her first paid of pants at the age of 12 year and after completing their formal education she founded Kavi Kavi a Toronto based fashion design company along with her twin sister and older sibling in 2003.[2][3]
Design philosophy
Inspired by world history, art, and street culture, Dipika Gupta was exposed and fascinated to this current dynamic presence in Haute Couture. Born and raised in South Africa and in India to Indian parents, she was taught about the rich culture, rich fabrics and Indian hand embroidery.
Her designs, a mix of simplicity and complexity, are driven by shapes, colours and textures. Themes and stories that carry through her collections usually direct the shapes and colours. As a mature woman, she still appreciates the Hip Hop culture and allows it to have an influence on the way she designs.
Her insights, passion, call to responsibility and respect for the environment and sustainability is important to Dipika Gupta. As such, she incorporates a dogma of a sourcing process to manufacture with an ethical perspective. Purchasing her ethically-produced fashion line will place Dipika Gupta's Kavi Kavi collection line on the global platform that will allow others to follow in her footsteps and encourage the future generation of designers to design and produce in an ethical and environmentally responsible manner.[4]
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References
- ↑ "Kavi Kavi's last collection was called Indian Royalty, but Dipika Gupata's new line has a futuristic touch". Ottawa Citizen. September 7, 2013. Retrieved 2020-11-18.
- ↑ June 10, Russ Martin; 2009. "Salads are in style at McDonald's". Retrieved 2020-11-18.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ admin (18 June 2012). "KAVI's KAVI's Take on Affordable East Indian Luxe". Fashion Reverie. Retrieved 2020-11-18.
- ↑ "Dipika Gupta's design philosophy". Kavi Kavi. Retrieved 2020-11-25.