Tahir Sultan is an all-encompassing lifestyle brand that continuously looks to bridge and re-interpret the design gap between the East and the West. It is contemporary, sophisticated, ethical, and sustainable.
The designer's unique Kuwaiti and Indian lineage gives him a deep understanding of different cultures and their rare heritage, which can be seen in his work. His exposure to fashion, the arts, architecture, and design has stirred his passion for pushing the boundaries of style, form, and function. After a stint at the architectural association, he graduated from Central Saint Martins.
Where he interned with John Galliano and Alexander McQueen before launching his own eponymous label in 2008. His talent was swiftly spotted, earning him accolades in the global press. He was the first Kuwaiti designer to be invited to showcase at London Fashion Week in 2012. Thereafter, he has shown at several other fashion weeks, including FFWD in Dubai as well as Jakarta Fashion Week. His art and lifestyle division of his company has seen him work with leading brands such as the India Art Fair, D3, Ajmal, Puma, Sotheby's, Porsche, Contemporary Istanbul, Good Earth, Sunita Shekhawat, Dhun, Obetee Carpets, Godrej & Boyce, Bacardi, and many more.
The brand runs and trains various women’s empowerment programs across India. The products created by these women are incorporated into his design projects and are on display for sale at the store. The designer's innovative approach dissects, re-interprets, and pushes the boundaries of craft to bring it up to an international level while affording the women he works with regular income and independence. His large-scale, high-profile art installations, like the embroidered pavilion, which took 35,000 hours to make and was commissioned for Sheikh Mohammed Al Makhtoum in Dubai, were created using 750 artisans across various villages in India and were sighted as the first of their kind, marring technology and reinterpreting traditional embroidery.
His many achievements include the launch of the CSR program for the W Hotels in the Maldives as well as working with the Princess Diya Kumari Foundation. Creating the first set of Gond Dolls, with craftsmen in Madhya Pradesh for the World Bank, his ongoing cushions and evil eye programs with I Love Jaisalmer and Cequin have had a huge positive economic impact on the women who create them.
He is currently setting up a fellowship to adopt 16 refugee families, provide them with free housing, afford the parents jobs within their fields of expertise, and educate their children all the way through college.
The brand has designed uniforms for hotels and restaurants, which include the W Maldives, Manzil Hotel in Dubai, The Maine Oyster Bar and Grill, Larte Café, and many more.
Tahir Sultan's interiors have been featured in Architectural Digest, Vogue, Elle Decor, India Today and Hello Magazine, with his store Makaan supplying an endless list of famous national and international designers with unique pieces for their projects.
Tahir Sultan Food, a cult Levantine, Gulf, and Persian catering brand that was set up during the pandemic, has been pushing the boundaries of how food, culture, design, and marketing come together. Seamlessly tying together all his various skills to create an explosion of creativity, which has helped set both his work and innovative aesthetic sense apart.