About Bombaim

In 2009, Richa Kanoi opened a store in Calcutta. One thousand square feet. A careful selection. Handwritten notes on every bill.

The scale has changed considerably. The instinct has not.

What Bombaim has always been is a point of view — clean, calm, contemporary, design-led. Not a catalogue of what is available, but a considered answer to the question of what is worth having. Every designer on the floor is there because someone believed in them, specifically, and chose them over everything else.

In 2017, that belief took Bombaim to Mehrauli. Richa partnered with Rahul Mishra — the first Indian designer to show at Paris Haute Couture — to launch and run his first flagship. The same instinct, a different city.

By 2022, Bombaim had moved into a new home in Calcutta: a pre-independence family house at 5A Dr. Sarat Banerjee Road, with Art Deco grilles, louvered windows, and a triple-height atrium that opens to the sky. The building was not disguised or modernised. It was listened to. Architectural Digest put it on their AD100 list in 2024. CN Traveller International called it a hive of activity. The store is not where the brand lives — the store is what the brand is.

In 2024, Bombaim opened at Kala Ghoda, Mumbai. 28/30 Saibaba Marg.

The point of view has stayed the same through every room, every city, every season. Retail spaces are carefully considered sanctuaries. They should make you feel a certain magic.

More style. Less fashion.