Women Enhancing Functionality across Designed Spaces First Impression is the Last Impression: A good interior design can help in building a good first impression. From grand mansions to small rooms, they becomes home, only when the love, décor, and admiration for aesthetically pleasing interiors are creatively aligned to make it come alive. Décor and interior not only introduces elegance and comfort but also helps to raise the functionality in our daily life. Décor is perhaps the first thing that everyone notices once ventured into someone’s home and profoundly defines the owner’s aesthetic taste and often is central to setting a statement. As people need to be surrounded by beauty more than ever, their inclination towards aesthetics, and giving a pleasant and attractive look to homes is skyrocketing each day. And this is fuelling new trends and innovations in the décor segment according to the ever evolving consumer demands.

Décor & Mental Health: Today, there’s nothing more important than mental health. A stressful job, a lack of ‘me time’ and feeling isolated can significantly affect mental wellbeing. In fact, many different factors may lead to a mental downtime, which is why it’s important to find new ways to improve mental health wherever possible. Studies estimated that urban population spends around 90 percent of their time indoors whether at home or office and this is why an appealing interior is paramount and things like colour, theme, neatness, and arrangement ¬ everything plays a major role in instant mood lifting.

Women Decorers: Today the role of an interior designer is multifaceted, they are no longer focusing on merely building something practical but have geared to incorporate practicality coupled with safety and aesthetics for optimum impact. Previously Decor being a male dominated industry, women had to be diligent to be successful. However there is a paradigm shift in the industries and mankind today and everything started to fall in place. Now women decorers rising high in their professions and creating their own mark with personalized designs while shattering all the glass ceilings. Thanks to the equal rights and access to education in the 21st century, by the virtue of which women are equipped with a willingness to take up tasks that were considered the men’s business before and breaking gender stereotypes. They are openly venturing in any field they want to operate on and thriving in their career path, on their own terms.

In this issue, the Women Entrepreneur magazine brings a list of ‘Top 10 Women Leaders in Decor Brands – 2023’, who are domineers of change in the corporate realm of the country. This list of ten leading and inspiring women is crafted by a team of CEOs, VCs, and the editorial board, delivering inspiring stories of their journey and the contributions & roles played by them in the creation and empowerment of an economically powerful nation.