Jayesh Mandalia is a British-Born Denim & Casual Bottoms Specialist based in London who graduated from Leicester De Montfort University.
He is highly regarded and respected as an accomplished technical designer and has been working in the industry with some of the best known brands, fabric mills, suppliers and washing plants around the world.
Starting his career from a very young age Jayesh, grew up in and around his Father and Uncles family run business who designed, manufactured and washed denim wear garments for leading brands such as Next, M&S, River Island, John Lewis, Boden, Paul Smith, Hackett, Jack Wills, Matthew Williamson, Rapha to name but some both in the UK and from operations in Tunisia.
Jayesh’s passion, love and training about denim grew from here. As a young child he would spend most of his weekends and summer holidays watching and learning from all the workers who where employed by the family business ‘Fashionwear Manufacturers Ltd’.
He learnt and absorbed every operation there was to make a pair of jeans right from Design, Buying, Pattern Making, Fabrics, Sewing, Washing and Finishing. After graduating from De Montfort University in Leicester with a BA Honours in Fashion Design, Jayesh went back to his family business to design for many of the leading brands whom the family worked with.
In 2015 Jayesh joined and started working with the biggest retailer in the UK - F&F Tesco. This opportunity allowed Jayesh to further enhance and learn new skills as a denim designer within a cooperate organisation. Along with his valuable team members and key suppliers they created multiple key selling lines and became the UK 1st Supermarket retailer to launch their most sustainable jean ever.
Jayesh has also lectured Denim projects at leading universities such as London Colleague Of Fashion, De Montfort Leicester, Birmingham City University to both BA & Master students and is highly sort after to lecturer to date.
Building close relationships around the world is one of Jayesh many key strengths with a global network reach of manufacturers, mills and laundries ranging from Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Cambodia, and Turkey to name but some.
Jayesh enjoys regular travels for worldwide shopping trips for new trends inspiration, attending key fabric trade shows such as Kingpins, Denim PV and Denim Expo.
In 2019 at Kingpins Amsterdam Jayesh was asked to participate as a guest speaker on behalf of Tesco F&F with a respected panel which included: Conscious Fashion Campaign, United Nations and Lee Jeans. The subject area was about “Good Jeans: Sustainable Development Goals and the Denim Industry”.
Jayesh is proud of his contribution towards better Sustainable Denim practices both in fabric development and advance garment washing. He is also extremly passionate about innovation and always strives for newness . He strives to improve on this even further as an when new technologies and ideas are brought forward by leading companies. Moving into 2020 Jayesh has now started his own design consultancy to share his expert knowledge in design and sustainability as well lecturing.