Founder & Designer
Suman Bharti
Founder & Designer, LUXE NOIR
- Est. 2005
- 1,000,000+ corsets delivered
- 32+ countries served
- ISO 9001 certified
- Founder-led
It started with a tinsel-waste corset.
In 2001, as his graduation collection at Pearl Academy of Fashion, Suman Bharti built a corset from hand-woven tinsel waste — scraps salvaged from India's textile industry, rewoven into something structured, sculptural, and strange. The collection won the Best Innovative Award. The corset, in particular, did something to him that the rest of the work didn't: it asked whether a discarded material could hold a woman's silhouette.
Twenty-five years later, that question is still the one he's answering. Innovation has been in his work since the beginning.
A conviction, not a job
In 2003, Suman moved to London. He studied the archives at the V&A, walked the ateliers of Mayfair, and applied for designer roles across the city. The portfolio was strong; the interviews went well. He wasn't hired. What he took from London wasn't a job — it was a conviction: that the global corsetry industry was being underserved by everyone already in it, and that the gap between craftsmanship and accessibility was wide enough to build a business through.
One sewing machine
He came home to India, set up a single sewing machine in a small Gurgaon workshop, and began selling custom-made corsets one at a time on eBay in 2005. Twenty years on, that workshop has become a 15,000 sq ft ISO 9001-certified factory producing thousands of corsets a month, serving buyers in 32+ countries.
CorsetDeal becomes LUXE NOIR
In the years that followed, the consumer brand CorsetDeal grew into one of the world's largest online corset retailers — over one million corsets sold across six continents. In 2025, Suman reimagined that brand for the luxury market it had grown into. CorsetDeal became LUXE NOIR — same atelier, same designer, same two decades of fit data, built now for the woman who wants couture-grade corsetry direct from the house that makes it.
What his work is known for
Historical accuracy
Pattern construction drawn from Victorian, Edwardian, and burlesque traditions — studied from primary sources.
Modern engineering
Spiral Steel Boning, 100% Cotton Lining, CAD-drafted patterns, and a 12-point quality inspection on every finished piece.
Fit across real bodies
A size range built from 20 years of fitting data across 32 countries — not idealised sketches.
"A corset is architecture. Steel, coutil, and pattern have to agree with the body — not fight it. When the engineering is right, the woman wearing it doesn't think about the corset at all. She thinks about the room." — Suman Bharti
