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Riddhima Whabi is a Dubai based fashion designer and businesswoman. She is the creative director and co-founder of the women's wear label 'Meher & Riddhima'. Riddhima started her career after receiving the ‘Swarovski Best Young Designer Award’ in 2001

Early life and education
Whabi was born in Mumbai and grew up in Dubai, UAE. She studied fashion design and marketing at the American University in Dubai and discovered her interest to start a fashion label.

Career
Whabi along with her childhood friend, Meher Mirchandani started their fashion business in 2002 launching ‘Meher and Riddhima’, an evening wear brand. A homegrown label out of Dubai with production facilities in Dubai and India. Since founding the brand, Whabi’s creations have been worn by many celebrities, some of them include Dita Von Teese, Jordin Sparks, Alexa Vega, Shilpa Shetty, Karisma Kapoor and Kriti Sanon.

Since the label’s inception, her label 'Meher & Riddhima' participated at the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week, Paris Fashion Week and Dubai fashion week, and also premiered a short fashion film ‘Sister’s Melody’ at the Dubai International Film Festival in 2015.

Riddhima has done the costumes for the English feature film If Something Happens.