Ritu Beri

Ritu Beri

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Ritu Beri Profile

  • Name:
  • Ritu Beri
  • Father:
  • Balbir Singh Beri
  • Mother:
  • Indu Beri
  • Spouse:
  • Bobby Chaddha

Ritu Beri Biography

Ritu Beri is a famous fashion designer from Delhi. She was the first Asian designer to head the French fashion brand, Jean-Louis Scherrer. She has been one of the leading fashion designers since late 1990’s and has appeared in many television shows giving expert opinion. She regularly featured in ‘Subhah Saware’ – Morning tea show on Doordarshan during late 1990’s and early 2000’s. She is arecipient of Global Excellence Award for her contribution in the field of fashion in the year 2004. Millennium Achiever and Rashtriya Shiromani Awards in the year 2000, Kalpana Chawla Excellence Awards 2007 for women in 2007 and ‘Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters’ – one of the highest civilian honours of French government in the year 2010 are the major honours received by her.

 

Ritu Beri's was born to Balbir Singh Beri - an adjutant at IMA, Dehradun and Indu Beri, an entrepreneur. She has one younger brother. She tied the knot with long-time friend and industrialist Bobby Chaddha in the year 2004. He is a designer and exporter in business. Beri did her schooling from Army Public School, Dhaula Kuan in New Delhi and graduated from Lady Shri Ram College in Economics. Later she joined the first batch of NIFT students. Her final collection titled LAVANYA, received appreciation. Beri launched her label in India in 1990.

 

In 1998 she presented a show in Paris successfully launching her first luxe collection. Thus she became the first Indian designer to present such a show. She is the only Indian designer to be featured in promostyl's fashion magazine Acustyl. She wrote the Most Expensive Indian Book, Firefly - A Fairytale which was highly priced as 1 lakh rupees.

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Updated: February 27, 2014

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