Payal Khandwala (@payalkhandwala) is the founder of her namesake fashion label which marries traditional Indian textiles with an international spirit. Ever since the brand's inception, @whatsappbusiness has helped them communicate more effectively, from connecting with vendors in remote areas of India to supporting international clients through personal consultations.
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00:00I think it was important that we represent this sort of voice of a modern India.
00:06My name is Payal Khanwala. I make clothes and I think now that's what the company is known for.
00:13I couldn't find the clothes that ticked all the boxes for me. I wanted them to be luxurious and
00:18handmade, comfortable but still stylish and elegant and also versatile and I think that
00:23didn't exist. And I wanted them to be Indian in soul but like in spirit to also be international.
00:30WhatsApp launched at the same time as we launched the label. So we've been using it from the very
00:36beginning and it's the powerhouse of how we communicate. With clients I think WhatsApp
00:43really really does help us. We can help them you know if they want to drape something a certain way
00:47or they want to take measurements. A little bit of styling advice goes a long way. We couldn't run it
00:52without WhatsApp. Certainly not as efficiently. Living in India of course because it's a hotbed
00:58for textiles and we have these own age traditions of hand woven textiles here. That poetry of making
01:07a garment out of something someone made by hand, each one is different. I'd like to continue
01:13dressing women all over the world and also offering the voice of a modern India
01:19in a small but sincere way but also in a way that's a little unpredictable.