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= Sanjay Garg =

This article is about the fashion designer. For the Indian Politician, see Sanjay Garg.

Sanjay Garg is the founder of Indian Textile and Garments Brand Raw Mango.

He grew up in small village called Mubarikpur, Rajasthan, He is the eldest among 3 siblings, The designer attributes his inspiration of his design aesthetic and language to his rural upbringing. Sanjay Garg studied design for a short term at Indian Institute of Craft and Design (IICD), Jaipur, he is a graduate from NIFT, New Delhi in Textile Design. He was accepted into a textile design program at Central Saint Martins in London however since he wanted to pay the fees himself he took up a job with the Shades of India, a textile company. He left Shades of India shortly after to consult on the the cluster development programme in Madhya Pradesh undertaken by the Textile Ministry.

Despite the cluster development project being terminated eventually, Garg continued working with the weavers even afterward. This marked the beginning of his work with the Chanderi weavers. Since then he has worked with weavers of Chanderi, Varanasi, Bengal and the block printers of Akola in Rajasthan.

Garg started selling his saris at New Delhi's Dilli Haat and Dastkar exhibitions before launching Raw Mango.

Raw Mango
Sanjay Garg founded Raw Mango in 2008. It is a brand of handwoven textiles that celebrates design, tradition and culture. The brand handcrafts textiles like Chanderi, Mashru and Banarasi. The brand has flagship stores in New Delhi’s Lodhi Colony and Chattarpur, Mumbai and Bengaluru.

Raw Mango does regular exhibitions and shows in international locations like Doha, Hong Kong, London, Russia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, UAE, USA and Mexico.

Raw Mango clothes are often seen on notable Indian celebrities like Kareena Kapoor Khan, Karisma Kapoor, Deepika Padukone, Kiran Rao, Shobhita Dhulipala, Deepti Naval, Zoya Akhtar, Kangana Ranawat, Aalia Bhatt, and others.

Jamaican-British Designer Grace Wales Bonner menswear designer collaborated with Raw Mango for their Spring Summer 2019 collection that featured Raw Mango brocades infused into clothes ranging from windbreakers to creature-of-comfort kurtas.

The brand launched its online store in July 2020.

International Acclaim
Sanjay Garg's creations were featured as a part of Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) fashion exhibit, ‘Items: Is Fashion Modern?’, curated by Paola Antonelli in 2017.

Raw Mango sarees are a part of the permanent exhibition and archives of Victoria & Albert Museum in the UK.

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