After successfully completing a Masters in Fashion Enterprise & Design at Westminster under British designers Shelley Fox and Zowie Broach (Boudicca), Narielwalla worked for the prestigious Savile Row civil, military and sporting tailor, Dege & Skinner, where he developed an appreciation for bespoke tailoring; in particular, the cutters' all-important brown paper patterns of individual customers. This fascination, coupled with his creative interpretation of the patterns, prompted him to produce a limited edition book entitled Dead Man’s Patterns. This artistic design story was inspired by a set of bespoke patterns belonging to a deceased customer. The concept was an attempt to recreate the patterns as objects of art, using the unique theme, which has become his trademark.

In his quest for artistic creativity, he forages for forms in historic tailoring archives and through his visuals he reveals previously untold stories. He utilises photography, his own sketches and digital composition collages to create sets of playful artworks. In October 2009, Paul Smith presented Narielwalla’s first solo exhibition at his gallery on Albemarle Street, in London's Mayfair entitled A Study on Anansi where he combined the patterns with western African folk tales. He has also recently written and been the artistic director of his second publication A Cut Above, the tailoring memoirs of Michael Skinner, master cutter and chairman of Dege & Skinner, whose story he tells through the pattern cutting journals Mr. Skinner compiled when studying at the Tailor & Cutter Academy (Due to be published in 2010).

Narielwalla has since become the first recipient of the highly sought after International Rector Scholarship from the University of Arts, London. The thesis for his PhD at the London College of Fashion will focus on the uniforms of the British Raj and their construction (archived at the National Army Museum).

Curriculum Vitae:

2003-2006

B.A in Fashion Design (University of Wales, Newport).

2006-2007

M.A in Fashion Enterprise & Design (University of Westminster, London).

2007- present

Work as a researcher and artist in residence at Dege & Skinner, Savile row, No.10.

May 2008

Launch Dead Man’s Patterns – artist book.

Dec 2008

A fairy tale in Fashion’, group Show – Exit Gallery, London.

Oct 2009 Solo show A Study on Anansi’– Paul Smith’s Mayfair Gallery.

Oct 2009

Awarded the first University of the Arts, London, International Rector’s Scholarship to read on a Doctorate in Philosophy at London College of Fashion.

Dec 2009

A Cut Above – conversations with a Master Tailor’ biography written and art directed by Hormazd Narielwalla. (due to be published).

Mar 2010

Markt at the Lincoln centre - Scope art Fair, New York.

April 2010

Drawing Out Group show at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia.

May-June 2010 Exhibition at shop at BlueBird, Chelsea, London