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From diplomacy to childrenswear

May 20, 2013
|In Mood of the Day
|By Florence Rolando

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.

 

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Florence Rolando

Florence Rolando (journalist, co-founder of Bubble Trade Shows) was the original Founder of Pirouette in early 2009. Pirouette blog* has been a reference in the industry since it started with its combined business and consumer view of the children’s market. A fantastic resource for children’s fashion, design, trends and culture, it aims to support creativity and talent but it also does this by talking about life, family, culture and health.

Florence is an international leader in the industry (8 years as a Milk Collaborator, contributor to Naif Magazine in Spain, co-founder of Bubble Trade Shows in New York and London).

Now Florence runs Energy Therapy Porto @enrgy_therapy_porto

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