Western 'fashion' designers who have come to India with their own sewing machine and equiptment...... I believe I may be the first! But, I'm not the 'Make thousands of peasant blouses really cheap and sell them for a fortune...Make Heaps $ kind of designer'....
For me, designing is more than drawing a nice picture, and handing it over to someone else to make. This approach rarely works for me, because of the hand made and irregular materials I like to use and see value in. The buzz I get when the finished result of a garment totally satisfies me....in both construction and design; It's the reason I do what I do!