Living in Paris had a lasting influence on the designer's sense of style. French women's charm and the respect for their sensuality expressed in accessories underlined the power of a gesture and the beauty of the considered detail.

"New York is where I have developed endurance”. Her creative talent was honed further by acquiring a thorough knowledge of US market requirements. Her clients’ relentless hunger for change and newness, have strengthened her work. This city holds the audience with the resources and interest in works whose either intrinsic or economic and cultural value, require significant investment of time and money. Here the coexistence of so many cultures allow her to experience pieces of each of the places she calls HOME. "I love the unique way one culture brushes up against another and creates something completely new" she describes the experience of living there.

India is the home of her early childhood. Bombay is where she first learned the joy and power of adornment as she witnessed the rituals of daily life unfold. In the mornings her nanny made elaborate chalk renderings at the front door to ensure the goodwill of the gods upon the family. Every few weeks, sumptuous embroidered silk fabrics were spread over the cooling marble floors when a tailor would sit on the floor in lotus position sewing her mother's designs with shimmering cloth carefully selected from the bazaars in Bombay.

If Paris is about the power and subtlety of gesture than Barcelona is about the unabashed celebration of the senses, absorbed through the Mediterranean fierceness of the Tramontana winds, the wailing of Cante Hondo, the percussive rhythm of Tablao Flamenco and the surreal visual poetry of Gaudi masterpieces against an evening sky.

Sintra, a smorgasbord of inspiration for the eyes and hands of the irreverent artist,is a jewel with its riot of color and shapes of regal Moorish and Christian tradition mixed with the pastiche of a glorified nostalgia for the past.