Kartik Research Spring 2025 Menswear Collection, "Building a brand around social personality can be perilous." Kartik Kumra was feeling intelligent during a display area arrangement after his runway debut at Paris Design Week. Kumra was concentrating on financial matters at the College of Pennsylvania when he established Kartik Exploration, then called Karu Exploration, in 2020. The thought then, at that point, was to offer oddball pieces made as a team with or exhibiting Indian craftsmanship. There were different brands, particularly in the US, in a similar tasteful space, yet Delhi-conceived Kumra could offer the genuine article. These were not copies of conventional kantha materials or Indian weavings, which have become typical in extravagance and contemporary menswear over the course of the last ten years; they came from the source. "All that you see here has no power in the texture creation process," Kumra said. "Each texture you see was created by another person. I have this large number of folks on my WhatsApp.