Goan Designer Wins National Award

Goan fashion designer Ninoshka Alvares-Delaney recently received an award from India handloom brand for best design in menswear.

The Saligao-based dressmaker’s design was honoured by the Union minister of state for textiles, Smriti Irani at Varanasi, on the occasion of National Handloom Day.

Her design was chosen as the best face of the national handloom brand run by the ministry of textiles from over 1,660 designers across India for its unique eco-friendly production and use of handloom fabrics and dyes.