Suzy Menkes, reacted to her first show in Paris during the Le Semaine de la Haute Couture & said, “Surprising as it might seem, Ritu Beri, from Delhi, gave a lesson in high fashion aesthetics and client-pleasing clothes-the essence of couture. This protege of the embroiderer Francois Lesage took a palette of quiet colors and sent out poetic mixes of baked mud, earth brown and black tinged with gold embroidery, or brighter kingfishers lined with zingy yellow.”