At eighteen, Rohitash Notani didn't know how to sketch. The first garment he made was for his mother. Something bright, something his hands figured out before his training had caught up. She wore it. People kept asking where it came from. The pride in her eyes that day was different. Stronger. Because it had been made by her own son.
That is where SANCTUARY begins.
Not in a concept. In a memory. In the first person he ever designed for his mother, Sunita and in the feeling she had always given him without a word for it: a place to feel safe. To feel loved. To feel that things will be okay. A sanctuary.
A Collection Born from Refuge
ROSANI is a luxury fashion house founded by Rohitash Notani, born in Baroda, trained in fine embroidery across the ateliers of Milan, now building a body of work that moves between India, Italy and the world. SANCTUARY is the brand's fourth collection and its most personal: a womenswear launch anchored in the woman who made him.
The collection began with a search. Not for a concept, but for a feeling Rohitash kept returning to: the need for refuge. A place of love. A safe space, not only for himself, but for a community of people who feel what the world is carrying right now and still choose to hold onto hope.
A message of faith. A whisper of love. The quiet insistence of hope.
That yearning became SANCTUARY. A space where identity feels expansive, confidence feels grounded and vulnerability holds dignity. Where the masculine and feminine meet, not in contrast, but as energies, as truth, as a way of belonging to oneself.
Where Strength and Softness Meet
Across the collection, that feeling takes form in garments built from architectural tailoring and fluid silhouettes. Structured where structure is needed, open where openness earns its place. Metallic surfaces, floral embellishment, eyelets, sheer layers and laser-cut textures create a language that feels precise without becoming rigid. Garments hold shape while still allowing movement, ease and breath.
The palette carries its own emotional landscape: charcoal, black, silver, deep wine, soft lilac, white, brown and vivid green. Shadow and light in the same wardrobe. Restraint and expression worn together.
At ROSANI, the belief has always been that a garment is more than its form. It can offer confidence, permission, emotional space. It can hold the person wearing it and let them be held.
The Lives It Touches
It begins with her.
For Sunita Notani, Rohitash's mother, his first muse and the original ROSANI woman, sanctuary lives in happiness. In watching a dream take shape through the lives of her children. In finding herself held within that dream. The first garment Rohitash ever made was for her, at eighteen, before he knew how to sketch. She wore it with the grace that seems to follow her everywhere. The pride in her eyes that day was different. Deeper. Because what she wore was something her son had made, only for her.
Through her, SANCTUARY becomes something rooted in memory, family, tenderness and fulfillment. A place of becoming. A place of arrival. A space where love, pride and quiet joy can exist together.
Now, it is her turn to shine.
And then it moves.
For Zahan Kapoor, sanctuary is permission. A place that feels safe enough to explore, a space where becoming can happen without fear. Sanctuary lives in a film set, a rehearsal room, a sandbox, a playground. His presence in the collection expands sanctuary from shelter into something more active: experimentation, imagination, the confidence to make, try and discover.
Between them, something becomes whole.
What begins in form unfolds into something more intimate.
A way of holding selfhood.
A way of moving through the world.
A way of making space for truth, for yourself, and for everyone still searching for it.
We are ROSANI.
This is where we belong to ourselves.
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