Sakhi Story

Indian fashion is making waves globally. Well known Indian designers like Ritu Kumar, Manish Malhotra, Manish Arora, Satya Paul, Neeta Lulla and others have a large following worldwide. New brands like "Sakhi by Chandras" are fast emerging as designer brands that add to the glamour of Indian designer sarees. Sakhi focuses on designer sarees that are wearable. They are exotic but at the same time elegant. They are unique but at the same time casual.

Sakhi is a fast growing fashion outlet founded by the mother-daughter duo of Chandra Rajendran and Neeta. Chandra is a designer with a keen eye for color and passion for design and her daughter Neeta brings a younger dimension to the designs and the brand. Sakhi specializes what they call the "wearable design" - Indian designer sarees and other products that you can wear for multiple occasions with ease and always win a complement.

Chandra's designer boutique has been active for more than 15 years, initially serving a close circle of friends. The popularity of her designs caught up and whenever people wore her designs, heads turned and complements flowed. And when Neeta, with an engineering degree and NIFT diploma in fashion under her belt joined her mother, the mother-daughter combine launched "Sakhi by Chandras" as a new brand in 2005 in Bangalore. From then on, Sakhi has grown into a well-respected brand for Indian woman's clothes today. Sakhi launched its online shopping site making it one of the best experience for Indian sarees online shopping. Sakhi launched their Hyderabad outlet in Oct'09.

With a clientele spreading across the world, Sakhi is constantly reinventing itself while not losing its core focus of creating wearable designs for the Indian woman.

Sakhi Products

Sakhi always holds an interesting collection - vibrant combinations of colors, craft and fabric. In most countries around the world, women have switched out of their traditional dresses to western style very fast. Unlike their counter parts, Indian women continue to proudly wear clothes that are modern but have a strong connect to Indian culture - weather Sarees, Salwars, Kurtis or whatever. Sakhi helps the modern Indian woman with a great combination of colors, crafts, materials and design patterns making Sakhi the best source of Indian designer sarees online.

Sakhi's Sarees

Sakhi has an excellent collection of Indian silk sarees including the queen of silks kancheepuram silk sarees (aka Kanchi silk sarees or Kanchi Pattu Sarees). When high quality material like Chiffon, Crepe, Tussar, Organza, georgette, Kancheewaram, Cotton, etc, intricate crafts like Cutwork, Kalamkari, Shadow-work, Hand embroidery, Block-prints, Sequins, Badla, Applique, Ari-work, Kundan etc. in glorious colors like fuscia-pink, golden-yellow, aqua-blue, burnt-rust, deep-green, peach, lavendar, sober-ash, turquoise blue, etc, combined seamlessly in Sakhi's wearable designs adds to the glamour of Indian fashion sarees.

Sakhi's Designer Saree Blouses

Sakhi brings out stunning designer saree blouses featuring pure Kanchi silk in rich colors like bottle green, rich reds, classic mustard, black and other colors. With exotic designs using crafts like kundan, cut work, kalamkari, hand embroidery etc, sakhi's designer saree blouses make a great match to the designer sarees from Sakhi. Sakhi provides custom stitching making it a one stop store for the clients.

Sakhi's Salwars

Sakhi carries an exotic collection of silk and hand spun cotton salwars. Excellent material like Kanchi silk, Crepe, Chiffon, Tusser silk are used for Salwars and Dhuppattas. They also include craft work like cutwork, block print, kundan, appliqué work etc. You can purchase as a fabrics or use custom stitching.

Today's Trends

Designer Chandra's pick of the month is an elegant Kanhcivaram Silk saree in Blueish Green hue with contrast mustard colour in a concept Partly Pallu design. This unique saree concept features slant Zari lines in the Pleats and Pallu and a visual contrast is the area from pleats to pallu sporting elaborate hand painted Kalamkari patches appliquéd. The appliquéd portion is further worked upon with various hand embroidery techniques like Ari work, Petta work , Wequins work..

Kalamkari hand craft literally meaning drawing with a pen, sarees featuring the kalamkari craft have been adorned by women over the ages. There are two distinct styles of kalamkari - Srikalahasti and Machalipatnam. The fabric gets its glossiness from its immersion in milk and resin. Kalamkari fabrics are created in seventeen steps, using only natural dyes, with numerous washes. Typically, the motifs capture the essence of temple architecture and scenes from great epics. The muted kalamkari motifs in maheshwari silk or cotton are appliqued onto rich vibrant kanchivaram silks. One can also find this work of art handcrafted on tussar silk, crepe, chiffon, georgette and cotton. Kalahasti and Masulipatnam located in the state of Andhra Pradesh in south India are well known for various forms of kalamkari. Sakhi borrows from this craft and brings alive the soul of kalamkari with fashionable designs

Kanchivaram is one of the superior silk fabrics in the world, kanchivaram is woven by skilled weavers from the famed temple town of Kanchipuram. The designs on this luxurious silk reflect finely crafted motifs inspired by the temples of Tamil Nadu. With silk thread dipped in liquid gold and silver, these glorious motifs are brought to life by the gifted hands of artisans. Sakhi pays tribute to the age-old tradition of adorning kanchivaram silk, with a contemporary twist that suits the modern woman.

Why Sakhi?

Sakhi By Chandras, the fast growing fashion outlet founded by the mother-daughter duo of Chandra Rajendran and Neeta offers a range of exclusive range of Indian designer sarees, salwars and kurtis.

Sakhi offers an extensive collection of Indian sarees online

Sakhi ensures prompt delivery world wide, taking extra care to ensure the product reaches you in mint condition within the date specified making Sakhi one of the most reliable places to buy sarees online.

At Sakhi you can also find exclusive Salwars that can be customized to suits your measurements or just the fabric. That means you can by either custom stitched or unstitched material at Sakhi.

In addition to an exclusive collection of designer sarees from India, Sakhi also offers custom creation of classic styles designer Saree blouses that goes well with many of the sarees.

Sakhi ensures the collection stays fresh and one can look forward to regular updates on our fashion pages. The color themes are very current and high fashion.

Sakhi guarantees that the product you receive is identical to the one seen by you on our site Sakhifashions.com

Sakhi's offerings combine the best of material and crafts in a stylish design making them a genuine collector's item.

Sakhi has stores in Bangalore and Hyderabad and an excellent online store in www.sakhifashions.com, giving customers flexible options to buy their products.