Meet Our Founding Team
The visionaries behind Manekin's luxury silk collections
Manvita Kamath
Founder
Manvita Kamath is an Indian actress based out of Bengaluru. She has won the prestigious Filmfare and SIIMA awards for her performances. She graduated in Journalism, Animation and English Literature from St. Aloysius, Mangalore and also did her Master's in Mass Media and International Studies at Jain CMS College, Bangalore, enabling her to have a strong foundation in branding and marketing.
Arun Kumar
Co-Founder
Arun is an engineer from Mysore who has more than a decade of experience building mobile and web applications for various companies including Myntra, Vedantu and Beatoven.ai. He loves music of all genres and is also a music producer who enjoys making music using hardware synthesisers, samplers and drum machines. He'll be the main tech person for building the website and driving the social media for the brand.
Sowmya
Creative Director
Sowmya is a Fashion Designer who graduated in Master's in Fashion from Istituto Marangoni, Milan. She has worked for projects like wookmarkk (Australia) and Tom Rebl (Italy) and interned at Milan Fashion Week. Her work journey started with international brand like Rahul Mishra and House of Three, and has done a lot of freelance projects for the movie industry.