If you’ve more than a week to spare, this Kala Ghoda company makes excellent custom shirts – whether formal or casual – no matter your gender. For the time-poor, there’s also an excellent off-the-rack range, including colourful crochet and retro-style bowling shirts, as well as soft bamboo loungewear.

Payal Khandwala is a high-end fashion label that celebrates timeless, hand-crafted Indian design with creative and contemporary twists. The brand is known for its commitment to sustainability and the meticulous use of rich, local, artisanal fabrics. The brand's collections offer unique silhouettes, vibrant colours and intricate patterns (from Indian textiles) that blend tradition and heritage with modernity. The label also sells interior decor that as the clothing line, is elegant, thoughtful and unique. 

A stone’s throw from the Taj Mahal Palace, Kala Ghoda is the kind of place it's easy to spend a day in. With everything from
galleries and boutique shops to its famed fort, Mumbai’s art district is creatively nourishing. For actual sustenance, though,
Kala Ghoda Café (KGC) is a satisfying – and almost entirely organic – bet. Stop for fairtrade coffee and a wedge of wheat-free ginger cake.

In this city even Bollywood actresses rock the off-duty aesthetic – so there are tons of cool, home-grown labels around. If you want to earn brownie points with hard-toplease teenagers, though, do not miss this
Bombay brand’s Kala Ghoda store. Their stuff’s mostly unisex and the baggy decal tees are no-brainers.