Even before he got back from Harvard, architect Rooshad Shroff had already bagged a big project in collaboration with none other than French designer Christian Louboutin, who was so impressed with the Mumbai boy’s design sense that he invited him to work on not one but two of his stores.

The technique of the embroidered wood wall in Christian Louboutin’s Mumbai store has been patented by Rooshad
Shroff

“In 2011, when I was studying at Harvard, a friend learnt that the Christian Louboutin team was looking for a designer for their store in Mumbai. She recommended me and I came on board as the local architect,” recalls the 32-year-old Shroff, adding that his job was to execute the project completely which was designed by New York-based architect 212Box.