Twenty years from sketch to shelf, and counting.

I started in corporate project management, American Express, structured timelines, large teams. I loved the mechanics of getting complex things done. What I didn't love was the distance from the product.

In 2010 I was invited to show my first collection to a Waldorf X British Fashion Council show. The response changed everything. Within the year I had my first institutional client. By 2016 I was the continuous producer for the V&A Museum, a relationship now spanning eight years and counting, across exhibitions for Frida Kahlo, Mary Quant, and a dozen others.

Along the way I built Bhavna Rishi London into a licensed merchandise studio trusted by the British Museum, Royal Collection Trust, Chatsworth House, Fenwick, Orvis, Limewood Hotel, and the licensing agency Iconic Images, producing scarves and accessories from the photographic archives of David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix, Marilyn Monroe, and Brigitte Bardot.

What I've learned, about factories, about retail buyers, about colour-matching and MOQs and packaging and the small decisions that separate a product from a bestseller, I now teach to founders. Not theory. The actual craft, from someone who does it every week.