KUDRAT MAKKAR. I couldn't tell my family in the beginning.

The Women of Influence Podcast with Kate Meade · Mar 3, 2025 · 30m

Celebrating the Women of the Melbourne Fashion Festival.

MASTANI is the vision of Kudrat Makkar, the Founder and Creative Director.

Through MASTANI, she wants to take the customers to a journey into the

world of the hands that made it and the culture that shaped it.

By using handmade traditional techniques which are inherited by artisans

from their ancestors, Makkar's aim is to preserve and revitalise her

Indian cultural heritage through the modern lens of MASTANI.

Australia is home to some remarkable women.

They're raising foster families. Running cattle stations. Living inspirational lives…