Why it belongs in ORBIS
Tashkent leather-and-clothing label started by Alexey Manshaev, with leather production from 2008 and its own storefront from 2011; makes bags, wallets, belts and graphic T-shirts in-house, patterning goods on Uzbek ikat and nomadic motifs.
Kanishka began as a project of Alexey Manshaev, who started producing leather goods in 2008 before opening a full storefront in 2011 in Tashkent. The brand's signature is combining Central Asian design language — patterns drawn from Uzbek ikat weaving and older nomadic motifs — with everyday, utilitarian product forms: leather bags, wallets and belts alongside graphic T-shirts. Its stated approach is to keep the full production cycle in-house, from raw material to finished piece, and to work primarily in local, natural materials — cotton fabric, leather and sheep pelts — rather than importing components. That local-materials focus, paired with the ikat and nomadic-pattern branding, has made Kanishka one of the more visible homegrown design labels in Tashkent's retail scene, distinct from the international fashion chains that dominate much of the city's clothing market.