Chantal Kumar is the founder and designer of Chandamama, a sweet clothing line that will be at Playtime Paris in July. Chantal has a background in diplomacy; while working for the United Nations in New York she pursued a fashion education at Parsons School of Design.
Chandamama (moon in Hindi) uses beautiful fabrics and loves colors, brilliant ones as well as halftone ones and embraces the use of the old technique of Indian block printing and the use of natural Indian fabrics and dyes. The collection is hand made or hand finished in India.
The company supports children’s projects in India with a portion of profits each year.
Find Chandamama in Singapore (The Children’s Showcase), in Saudi Arabia (MiniMe) and online www.polpettine.com (based in the Netherlands) – chandamamakids.com).
Click here to read an interview of Chantal, founder of Chandamama, with her son Sebastien.
Florence Rolando
I founded Pirouette Blog in November 2008. Today I am a contributor, looking with delight how the blog is developing with Katie as the new boss!
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