Aarushi Aggarwal

MBA, Fashion & Lifestyle Business Management, Pearl Academy

Aarushi
Aggarwal

Fashion marketing and retail buying. I position products, earn them press, and build the moments around them.

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Portrait of Aarushi Aggarwal in a cream slip dress against a slate background.

Four projects, four problems worth solving.

Soma gift box open on a wooden table, the diffuser seated in gold silk lining beside a bundle of reeds. Soma Product marketing Kazo retail window installation with a mannequin styled in an ivory shirt and brown embellished skirt beside a copper floral Kazo board. Kazo Brand identity, retail
The Bedazzling Station easel sign on the activation table, surrounded by martini glasses, pink cups with bra-shaped stirrers, and a bowl of gems. Hunkemöller × Bacardi Experiential Herbal-dyed organic cotton swaddle wrapped around a sleeping baby. Herbs and Credles Brand launch, PR

Soma

Product marketing for Forest Essentials

A smart diffuser concept that keeps the ritual and hides the technology.

A smart home-fragrance system for a heritage Ayurveda brand entering a category it doesn't yet own. The wedge: replace traditional oils with interchangeable fragrance pods, then wrap them in a monthly subscription, a razor-and-blade model that turns a one-time device sale into recurring revenue.

The design challenge was keeping the technology invisible, so the ritual, not the gadget, stays at the centre of the brand.

Market gap Positioning Subscription, CLV Brand-fit strategy
Soma diffuser lit and running, reeds releasing fragrance, with a soft signal indicator glowing at the base.
A hand placing reeds into the Soma diffuser, its interchangeable wooden pod lid resting on the table. Soma fragrance pod cartons stacked beside the diffuser.

Hunkemöller × Bacardi

Co-branded experience, India edition

Two audiences meet around one occasion: the night out.

A customer experience built to make the brand the first thing you remember. Two audiences, playful body-confident lingerie and nightlife-driven spirits, meet around one occasion: the night out.

The activation runs on shareable touchpoints, Polaroid and bedazzling stations engineered as UGC engines, with a live concert as the anchor. Priced to fill the room rather than the bank, the pass is a customer-acquisition play, monetised through retail, sampling, and reach.

Co-brand strategy Tiered pricing UGC design Talent rationale
The activation set: a styled mannequin in Hunkemöller lingerie beside a screen, with the drinks and bedazzling table laid out in front.
A pink Hunkemöller photo-frame board covered in handwritten guest notes from the activation. A guest Polaroid mounted in a black frame with Hunkemöller heart and sunglasses stickers.
Party Pass Concert access, all stations, Bacardi welcome drink ₹6,969
VIP Bombshell Front-of-stage, fast-track stations, goodie bag, cocktails ₹13,999
Stay & Slay VIP tier plus one-night stay for two ₹24,999

Herbs and Credles

Brand launch and PR

Herbal-dyed organic babywear, sold on the gap nobody names: the dye.

A values-led launch built on a marketing insight: awareness of organic cotton has outrun awareness of chemical dyes, and those dyes are what actually touch a baby's skin. The whole product sells that gap. The promise is a baby's skin kept safe, with herb benefits as the supporting evidence.

Radical transparency from sourcing to dyeing becomes the brand's PR and trust engine, positioning it against a category of expensive, opaque incumbents.

Consumer insight New-brand positioning Transparency, PR Customisation
Open the project deck
Herbs and Credles brand cover artwork with herbal-dyed cotton in soft greens. Herb and Cradle logo: a leaf-drop mark beside the wordmark.
Kazo brand book cover with collaged textile and tile patterns in teal, terracotta and sand with the Kazo wordmark centred. The Kazo retail window as installed, seven feet of styled mannequin and copper floral board.

Kazo

Brand identity and retail

A brand book, then a seven-foot window that proves it can stand up in a shop.

A full brand book for Kazo, with voice, positioning, and visual identity codified into one system, extended into a seven-foot retail window that translates the brand from page to physical space.

The brand book carries the strategic thinking; the window shows it can live as a moment a shopper walks into.

Brand system Visual identity Retail activation
Read the brand book

A marketer for brands that live in the world, not only on the feed.

A fashion and lifestyle marketer trained at Pearl Academy, working where brand strategy meets the physical and cultural world of a product. I work across three connected disciplines: positioning a product, earning it press and trust, and building experiences people remember.

I'm drawn to premium and heritage brands, where taste and commercial rigour have to hold hands. Currently seeking roles in brand marketing, PR, and experiential where I can own a launch end to end.

Finance foundation, retail floor, luxury focus.

Aspiring fashion buyer with on-floor retail experience managing 1,000+ SKUs across men's, women's, and kidswear in a family apparel business. Finance foundation (BBA) now paired with an MBA focused on luxury and premium retail, with a particular interest in the gap between India's luxury consumer appetite and the retail infrastructure serving it.

Education

Aug 2025 to Aug 2027

MBA, Fashion & Lifestyle Business Management

Pearl Academy, Delhi, India

Relevant coursework: Fashion Merchandising & Production Process, Retail Buying & Visual Merchandising, Strategic Brand Management, Luxury Goods & Services, Consumer Behaviour, Styling & Etiquettes.

Ranked #1 of 50 students in the Start Your Startup-1 capstone, a premium organic babywear venture.

Aug 2021 to May 2024

BBA, Banking, Corporate Finance & Securities Law

Dr. Vishwanath Karad MIT World Peace University, Pune, India. 9.5 CGPA

Relevant coursework: Corporate Finance, Securities Law, Banking Operations, Financial Markets & Instruments, Business Law, Market Research, and Financial Statement Analysis.

Experience

Aug 2024 to Jul 2025

Business Operations & Merchandising

Aggarwal Creations, family retail apparel business, Delhi NCR, India

  • Managed buying, inventory, and vendor coordination for a retail apparel business with 1,000+ active SKUs across men's, women's, and kidswear, generating approximately ₹7 Lakhs in annual revenue.
  • Renegotiated payment terms and order quantities with 8+ suppliers, improving the working capital cycle and reducing markdowns on slow-moving SKUs.
  • Built category performance tracking across 20+ vendors, flagging sell-through anomalies and informing weekly replenishment decisions.

May 2024 to Aug 2024

Brand Strategy & Marketing Intern

65 Digital Media, Pune, India, remote

  • Supported brand positioning and campaign planning for D2C and consumer-facing brands across multiple client mandates.
  • Ran performance analysis on digital campaigns to inform spend reallocation and creative iteration.

Academic and independent projects

Atelier Flora

Apparel range development, Pearl Academy

Team project; led strategy and market research. Developed a 20-piece apparel range from macro and micro trend analysis through to physical prototypes, owning target customer definition, trend distillation, and competitive positioning that informed the design and merchandising brief, and supported the full buying-merchandising cycle through sourcing, costing, and sample development.

Premium organic babywear

Start Your Startup-1, ranked #1 of 50

Built and validated a venture concept for premium organic babywear targeting urban Indian parents: defined positioning, pricing, and channel strategy; ran consumer surveys; and launched a landing page that generated 900+ visitors and 100 email signups as early demand validation.

Visual merchandising redesign

Kazo, team academic project, presented

Conducted in-store analysis of Kazo's flagship retail experience and proposed a full visual merchandising redesign covering window concept, store flow, fixture mix, and category adjacencies, anchored to the brand's contemporary women's wear positioning.

Commercial rigour, creative instinct.

Buying and merchandising

SKU planning Replenishment Vendor coordination Range planning Sell-through tracking Markdown planning Visual merchandising

Brand and marketing

Brand strategy and positioning Campaign and PR Experiential activations Consumer research Campaign performance analysis

Tools and languages

Excel, advanced Google Sheets PowerPoint Canva Shopify SketchUp English, fluent Hindi, native

Let's build something worth talking about.

Open to brand marketing, PR, buying, and experiential roles where a launch can be owned end to end.

Based in Delhi NCR, India
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