Some people discover textiles. I grew up inside them.

Raised in Mumbai, India, with a maternal grandfather who still runs a traditional fabric manufacturing unit in the heart of the old city, my relationship with cloth, craft, and process began long before my formal training. That deep-rooted connection led me to NIFT Gandhinagar — one of India's most prestigious design institutions — where I turned instinct into expertise.

Over the next several years, I built a career that took my work to the shelves of global brands including Crate & Barrel, Anthropologie, Emma Bridgewater, TJX and many others. From hand illustration and trend forecasting to CAD development, vendor coordination, and full collection builds, I learned to hold the entire design-to-delivery process in my hands.

And that process — the mapping, the sequencing, the turning of a creative vision into a tangible, on-time result — is what I loved most.

Now based in Vancouver, I'm channeling that passion into Project Management, pursuing my CAPM certification and bringing my rare combination of creative fluency and operational instinct to fashion and apparel teams who need someone who speaks both languages. My pivot isn't a departure from design. It's the next layer of it.

I'm Drishti Daftary — textile designer, emerging project manager, and someone who has always cared just as much about how something gets made as what it looks like.