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Purple Style Labs Soonicorn

Purple Style Labs Limited Mumbai, Maharashtra Founded 2015 purplestylelabs.com ↗
Abhishek Agarwal · Founder & CEO
$76.69 MnTotal funding (tracked)
6Funding rounds
13 Mar 2025Last round

Purple Style Labs: Business Model Canvas

The nine-block Business Model Canvas, filled in only where a public source states it — empty blocks mean we haven't found a citable fact yet, not that the answer is zero.

Value Propositions

Global access to Indian luxury design

Purple Style Labs positions itself as expanding the reach of India-based fashion brands to the world's biggest luxury markets.

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Curated omnichannel luxury designer wear

An omnichannel platform where shoppers can discover and buy Indian designer wear both online and in physical experience centres.

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Incubation for young designer brands

Beyond retail, PSL incubates emerging Indian designer labels, providing sales, marketing, and technical support.

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Customer Segments

Affluent Indian designer-wear shoppers

Buyers seeking premium/luxury Indian designer wear across womenswear, menswear, jewellery and accessories, both in India and internationally.

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International/diaspora fashion buyers

PSL has expanded internationally with a store in Mayfair, London, and plans for New York, Los Angeles, Dubai, and other fashion capitals.

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Customer Relationships

Personal styling consultations

In-house stylists provide personalised consultations both in-store and online, tailored to the customer's personality, occasion, and requirements.

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Channels

Pernia's Pop-Up Shop / The Stylist (online)

Two multi-designer ecommerce platforms operated by PSL.

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Pernia's Pop-Up Studio experience centres

15+ offline multi-designer experience centres across major Indian cities plus one international store.

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Third-party marketplace tie-up (Myntra)

Myntra partnered with Pernia's Pop Up Shop to bring designer wear (up to INR 1.5 lakh) to Myntra's customers, entering the luxury segment.

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Key Activities

Designer brand incubation

PSL actively incubates young/emerging designer labels, providing sales, marketing and technical support in exchange for platform access.

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Omnichannel retail expansion

Continued domestic and international store expansion, including plans for a large multi-designer flagship at the Ismail Building, Fort, Mumbai.

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Acquiring and reviving heritage fashion labels

PSL acquires established Indian designer labels and brands (e.g. Pernia's Pop-Up Shop in 2019, Hemant Trivedi in 2021, Wendell Rodricks in 2020) and scales them through its own ecommerce and retail infrastructure.

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Key Resources

Curated designer-brand catalogue1,312+ active designer brands (2025)

A large, actively curated roster of designer brands across categories is the core inventory/resource behind the platform.

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Physical experience-centre network

15+ owned offline experience centres across major Indian cities plus an international store, functioning as a key physical retail/brand-discovery resource.

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Key Partnerships

Designer brand partners

Marquee Indian couturiers whose collections are retailed on the platform.

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Myntra (marketplace distribution partner)

Myntra partnered with Pernia's Pop Up Shop to bring premium/designer wear to its customers as Myntra entered the luxury segment.

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Celebrity design collaborations

Collaborations such as 'Six Yards by Madhuri Dixit' and Amit Aggarwal as guest creative director for the Wendell Rodricks label.

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Revenue Streams

Sale of curated designer wear (online + offline)Avg. GMV/customer: ₹59,023 (FY23) → ₹83,270 (FY25)

Revenue from operations across the Pernia's Pop-Up Shop/The Stylist ecommerce platforms and Pernia's Pop-Up Studio offline stores; PSL discloses this as GMV-per-customer, a marketplace/commission-style retail metric.

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Cost Structure

Prime flagship-store rent₹3 crore/month (₹10 lakh/day)

PSL's South Mumbai flagship (former Zara site) carries a five-year lease at a very high monthly rent.

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Sales & marketing spendS&M: 12.88% of revenue (FY23) → 6.77% (FY25)

S&M spend as a share of revenue, which the company has been steadily reducing even while growing.

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FAQs on Purple Style Labs

What is Purple Style Labs's business model?

Purple Style Labs's core value proposition centers on Global access to Indian luxury design, Curated omnichannel luxury designer wear, Incubation for young designer brands.

How does Purple Style Labs make money?

Purple Style Labs's cited revenue streams include Sale of curated designer wear (online + offline).

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