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HISTORY

Jattinn kochhar a 1972 born Aquarian is a New Delhi, India based “Garuda” between art and fashion, launched his label at the age of nineteen in the year 1991, without any formal training in fashion. Jattinn firmly believes that he is truly blessed by the Almighty.

HIS DESIGNS

Born with an extra dosage of creativity from god is certainly his biggest asset. His ability to amalgamate his soulful Indian heritage with true urban influences has been the foundation of his design ideology. Minimalist simplicity with absolutely clean and fuss free lines have been the hallmark of his creations. Jattinn creates ready to wear and formal wear both for men and women.

HIS SHOWS

He is the first Indian designer to be selected by the Australia fashions framework to show his collection along with the Australian team on the Out of the Australia world tour 1993. He has participated as a guest designer for traveling fashion presentation around the world where he showcased his creations in Bangkok, Colombo, Johannesburg, London, Sydney, Canberra, Rio and Sao Paulo. In 1999 Jattinn did a series of fashion shows across Egypt starting from Cairo, Aswan Luxor to Hurghada. Along with the fashion shows, Jattinn also exhibited his first painting exhibition in Egypt, which further traveled and was exhibited at the “Casual Power House” art gallery in Sydney. In India he has had shows regularly in metros like Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Ahmadabad along with Mussorie, Bhopal, Surat, Baroda, Cochin etc. Spring Summer 05 collection at the Kuala Lumpur Asia Fashion Week ‘04 In 2005 Jattinn designed a school uniform for one of the leading schools in New Delhi “Tagore International School” comprising of summer, winter and the sports uniform along with specially designed shoes and other accessories. Jattinn designed for the opening sequence of the Viennese ball for the Royal Austrian embassy, New Delhi in September’05.

•	Spring summer 06-swimwear line and eveningwear line at the Singapore Asia fashion week 05.

•	Spring summer’06 collection at the Kuala Lumpur Asia fashion week 05.

•	Jattinn débuted as a costume director for an international cross over feature film "Fuzion"in’05.

•	Fall – winter ’06 at the Wills Lifestyle India fashion Week’06 in New Delhi, India in April ’06.

•	Spring summer’07 at the Wills lifestyle India Fashion Week in New Delhi, India in September’06.

•	Eveningwear and Swimwear line for the Holidays at Tashkent, Uzbekistan in October’06.

•	Resort wear ’08 collection showcased at the Malaysia fashion week, Kuala Lumpur in Nov’07.

•	Spring summer’09 Collection showcased at the Malaysia International Fashion week, Kuala Lumpur Nov’08.

•	Fall winter’09 Collection showcased at The Eurasian Fashion Week, Yekaterinburg, Russia April’09.

•	Fall winter’09 Collection showcased at The Bangalore Fashion Week, India July ‘09.

•	Fall winter’10 Collection showcased at the Hyderabad Fashion Week, India July ’10.

•	Fall winter’10 Collection showcased at the Bangalore Fashion Week, India July ’10.

•	Fall winter’10 collection showcased at the Chandigarh Fashion Week, India Oct’10.

•	Fall winter’11 Collection showcased at the Bangalore Fashion Week, India July ’11.

•	Fall winter’11 Collection showcased at the Kochi International Fashion Week, India ,Aug ’11.

•	Resort Wear’11 Collection showcased at the Kenya Fashion Festival, Nairobi,, Kenya, Sep’11.

•	Fall winter’11 collection showcased at the Kolkatta Couture Fashion Week, India, and Sep’11.

•	Speaker at the Indo-Nepal Summit held in Kathmandu, Nepal 13-14th May’12.

•	Fall winter’12 collection showcased at the Bangalore fashion week, India, July’12.

•	Spring summer’13 collection showcased at the Punjab fashion week, Ludhiana, India, Aug’12.

•	Resort wear collection showcased at the Kochi bridal week, cochin, India, Sep’12.

•	Swim wear/resort wear collection showcased at the Vishakhapatnam fashion week, India, Feb ’13.

•	Speaker at the India luxury Summit organized by ASSOCHAM and The Spanish embassy, New Delhi, India, Feb’14.

•	Resort wear collection showcased at the Indore fashion week, India, March’13.

•	Resort wear collection showcased at the Chennai fashion week, India, July’13.

•	Spring summer’14 collection at the Pune style week, India, Aug’13.

•	Spring summer’14 collection at the Punjab International fashion week, India, Oct’13.

•	Spring summer’14 collection at the Kochi fashion week, India, Oct’13.

•	Spring summer’14 collection at the Hyderabad fashion week, India, Dec’13.

•	Spring summer’14 collection at the Bangalore fashion week, India, Jan’14.

•	Prêt line showcased at the Bengal fashion week, India, Feb’14.

•	Prêt line showcased at the Indore fashion week, India, March’14.

•	Prêt line showcased at the Chandigarh style week, India, April’14.

•	Pret line showcased at the Bangalore style week, India, July’14.

•	Punjab style tour, showcased at Patiala, Ludhiana, Jalandhar and Amritsar,India.Aug’14.

•	Evening wear line showcased at the Pondicherry fashion week, India, Sep’14.

•	Solo exhibition at panorama by rhombus hotel, Kowloon, Hong Kong, 8th Jan’15.

•	Spring summer ’15 collection showcased at the Coimbatore fashion week,25th Jan’15.

•	Resort wear collection showcased at the Gionee India Beach fashion week, Goa,7th Feb’15.

•	Prêt line showcased at the Chandigarh style week, Chandigarh,27th June’15.

•	Prêt line showcased at the Pondicherry fashion week,18th July’15.

•	Pret line showcased at the Bhopal fashion week,8th Aug’15.

•	Spring summer’16 shocased at the kolkatta style week,12th Sep’15.

•	Spring summer’16 showcased at the jaipur fashion week,27th Sep’15.

•	Spring summer’16 showcased at the gurgaon fashion week, Dec’15.

•	Resort wear’18 showcased at Project Bhutan season 6, Thimpu, Bhutan, 30th Sep’17.

ART SHOWINGS

•	Casula power house, Sydney Feb’99 (solo)

•	Continuum Udayan care, New Delhi March’08 (group)

•	Delhi diary golden jubilee art show, Galerie Romain Rolland, New Delhi May’08 (group)

•	Open studio, Tokyo Wonder Site, Aoyama, Tokyo, 18th May'09

•	Open studio, Tokyo Wonder Site, Aoyama, Tokyo, 20th June'09

•	Synchronicity, Triveni kala sangam, New Delhi, 27th Nov’09 – 6 Dec’09 (Group)

•	Galaxy of stars, Galaxy Hotel, Gurgaon, 12th Dec’09 -18TH Dec’09 (Group)

ARTIST –IN –RESIDENCE PROGRAMME

Tokyo Wonder Site, Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan: May’09-July’0

AWARDS

•	Hopp Style award’13, 26th Oct’13.

•	Beyu lifetime achievement award for completing 20 yrs in fashion April’11.

•	Frequent blood donor Appreciation award by The Indian Red Cross Society July 2010.

•	Lycra Design Partner 2008.

•	Lycra Design Partner 2007.

•	India cup open appreciation award, Dec 2007.

•	Lycra Design Partner 2006.

•	Lycra Design Partner 2005.

•	Mc’donalds appreciation award for participation at the World children’s week Nov 2002.

•	Award of honour by Dorian Yates charitable award 1999.

•	Cine Excellency designer appreciation award 1998.

•	Indian institute of technology appreciation award 1997.

•	Indo-American Society young achievers award 1997.

•	All India Institute of Medical Sciences appreciation award 1996-1997.

•	Mescos Designer of the year award 1995.

•	J.D Institute of fashion technology appreciation award 1995.

•	I.E.C Technical Excellence Award 1994.

•	J.D Institute of fashion technology appreciation award 1993-1994 for being first Indian designer to be selected by the Australian Fashion Frame work to showcase his creation across the world & to be the first Indian designer to have showcased in Brazil (Rio-De-Janeiro & Sao Paulo).

•	Yuva Ratna Award by the Youth Congress for his contribution towards the unity & diversity of India through his designs.

VERSATILE PERSONALITY

Jattinn also has to his credit several popular televisions shows such as khoobsurat, Fashion Square, The India show etc.as an anchor, guest anchor and several other television shows in which his expertise in terms of conceptualizing and styling was used.

Along with television Jattinn did a short stint on radio as well.

His contribution in academics concerning “Fashion” also has been praise worthy. Jattinn was heading the National Institute of Fashion Design as the Director General for the academic session 2000-2001. He has been conducting workshops on various aspects of fashion with some of the best Fashion Institutes across the country.

Jattinn has been actively writing on Fashion and other lifestyle related topics for some of the leading dailies as well as for Fashion and Lifestyles Publication like The Hindustan Times, The Times Of India, Indian Express, H.T Persona, Just teens, Dainik Hindustan, Dainik Bhasker, Femina, New Women, Teens-Today,4th D Woman,Ah Zindagi etc. Jattinn has also been on the board of directors at The Prestigious Fashion Design Council of India for the tenure 2008-2011.

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTES

Jattinn has been associated with the following educational institutes as an Director General / visiting faculty / guest lecturer…educating about design, design philosophy, visual merchandising, brand management and brand communication:

•	IIT Delhi

•	National institute of design, ahmedabad (NID)

•	National institute of fashion technology (NIFT), New Delhi

•	International institute of fashion design, New Delhi

•	National institute of fashion design,Jaipur (NIFD)

•	National institute of fashion design,Baroda (NIFD)

•	National institute of fashion design,Kanpur (NIFD)

•	Pearl academy of fashion, New Delhi

•	WLC College (India) Ltd,New Delhi

•	Air hostess Training Centre, New Delhi

•	Tagore international school. New Delhi

•	Bunka university, Tokyo, Japan

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