Tarun Tahilani is a veteran Indian fashion and interior designer, who is co-founder of Indias first multi-designer luxury studio, Ensemble. He is also among one of the founding members of the Fashion Design Council Of India (FDCI).After completing school, Tahilani went to St. Stephens college, New Delhi. [6] The Times Of India However, he dropped the college after some time. In an interview, Tarun said, My one year at St. Stephens college was very disappointing. With just one honours subject there wasnt enough of a challenge. So, I went to the US..From his childhood days, Tarun always wanted to participate in sports, but he couldnt because he had a knock knee problem.His mother died of cancer when he was at Doon school. [7]The Times Of IndiaRecalling that day, he shared in an interview, I received a call from Bombay and my headmaster told me that my mother is not feeling well. She was in a coma when I arrived. Two days later, everything was over. For four years, I could still smell her perfume in the cupboard. .After some time, his father remarried Meera and he calls her stepmother to be a wonderful lady.While Tarun was studying at the University of Pennsylvania, he met Sailaja (now his wife) through a common friend. He calls his first meeting with Sailaja to be love at first sight. [8]The Times Of India He said in an interview, Sal was an economics student at the University of Pennsylvania. Luckily, for me, my best friend, Sanjana, happened to be in the same university. I used to visit Sanjana off and on and through her, I got introduced to Sal. We hit it off immediately. When we returned to India, we didnt waste time and we tied the knot..After returning to India, Tarun joined his family business of manufacturing oil exploration equipment. Soon, he realised that he wanted to do something of his own. Tarun accompanied his wife Salaija in her fashion shows and then decided to choose fashion designing as his career. [9]The Times Of India In an interview, Tarun shared his experience of the first fashion show he attended and said, It was the first fashion show I attended. But when I saw it, I was completely blown away! When I returned home, I started sketching..Tarun considers Rohit Khosla (Fashion designer) as an inspiring force, who guided him to establish Ensemble. He met Rohit Khosla in Jaipur, where his wife Sal was modelling for Vimal. Tarun shared in an interview that how Rohit helped him and Sal in exploring fashion those days. He said, Rohit was very much a part of the beginning of Ensemble. Fashion-wise, I was a Bholaram! Rohit took Sal and me to the best fashion stores abroad. I didnt anything about fashion and was like a bholaram at those stores. The western influence is very much there at Ensemble with high ceilings, open settings, and an unhurried display of clothes. But people were not used to this and a common question was, Why your store is so empty? [10]The Times Of India.Tarun Tahilani co-founded Ensemble with his wife Sal and Rohit Khosla in 1987.In 1991, when his sister Tina returned from California to Bombay, he handed her the keys of Ensemble and went to FIT in New York. There he did a few courses on fashion designing and after returning to India, he shifted his workplace to Delhi.