THE LOTUS MAHAL

Creative & consulting studio · New York, DC, Baltimore

Work that doesn't fit
one department.

The Lotus Mahal is a boutique studio that helps organizations ship strategy and digital experiences that actually work. We stage events, build fashion programming, run sustainability due diligence, and design the websites and infrastructure underneath — often for the same client, in the same year.

The studio

Who you are hiring

Two decades at the intersection of fashion and technology — factory floors, product teams, and the classroom. That range is the point: the person writing your sustainability memo has also cut a sample, shipped a CMS, and run a show from the back of house.

How we work

Small, and on the floor

Engagements are scoped tight and staffed lean. We would rather hand you something you can operate than something you have to keep paying us to touch — so training and documentation ship with the work, not after it.

The practice

Five disciplines, one studio

Events

Concept, production, and run-of-show for public programs and runway.

Fashion Programming

Curriculum, shows, and industry programming for schools and brands.

Sustainability Due Diligence

Supply-chain and ESG review that holds up to a buyer's questions.

Web & Infrastructure

Design, build, and a CMS the client's own team can run.

Consulting

Strategy for teams working across fashion, technology, and impact.

Selected work

Recent engagements

Events · Fashion Programming · 2025

Garden of Swann

WorldPride · Washington, DC

A queer fashion show staged as part of WorldPride — fashion and activism on the same stage.

See the show
Fashion Programming · Sustainability · Education

Eye on India — The Saree Project

Eye on India

A programme built around the saree: its makers, its material life, and what it teaches about slow clothing.

See the project
Web & Infrastructure

Commander's Palace

Also Known As Studios

A ten-page rebuild for the New Orleans landmark — Webflow CMS, event-scheduling APIs, distinct desktop and mobile designs, and the training materials for the restaurant to run it themselves.

Visit the site
Consulting · Retail

Made of Chicago

Made of Chicago

A Chicago-inspired activewear brand sold through interactive vending machines in hotel and building gyms.

See the brand
Education · Consulting

AT&T + Samsung Design Project

AT&T · Samsung

Bringing technology into the design process, taught as a working method rather than a demo.

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Brand · Web & Infrastructure

Lotus Mahal

Studio project, with the artist Mita

A shop of artist-made goods — watercolour cards, hand-poured candles, wearable art — built and run in-house.

Visit the shop
Clients & collaborators
  • Coppin State University
  • Drexel University
  • State of Maryland
  • Commander's Palace
  • AT&T
  • Samsung
  • Eye on India
  • WorldPride

In development · Fashion Business 101 · Education Design

Tell us what you are staging.

A show, an audit, a site, a syllabus — or the awkward project that is all four at once. Send a note, or put something on the calendar.