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A hand-crafted slow revolution
Article Category: Luxury
Bewitched by the Baluchari
Issue #003, Autumn, 2019 ISSN: 2581- 9410 Ruby Palchoudhuri’s abiding contribution to the revival of the traditional Baluchari lies in her pioneering […]
Ethical Fashion Show, Paris (9-12 September)
This fashion show has been the culmination of all efforts and collaboration. The launching collection was shown and the project was presented. Both have received extremely positive feedback and project has been now placed on an international forum due to this exposure. Companies, industry associates and designers have offered to collaborate with the weavers and […]
Interview with Designer Anjali Kalia
Recognizing the role traditional handlooms and designs play in contemporary fashion, we are starting a series of interviews with fashion designers. We ask a set of questions to which the designers send their responses. We will intersperse these with interviews with the crafts persons to get both sides of the process being examined. As […]
Interview with Shalini Jaikaria and Paras Bairoliya of Geisha Designs
Recognizing the role traditional handlooms and designs play in contemporary fashion, we have over the past months initiated a series of interviews with fashion designers. In this interview we do away with the question and answer format to allow two designers to answer our concerns by weaving the story of their interaction and collaboration with […]
In conversation with designer Anshu Arora Sen
We understand that you employ craft techniques and processes in your collections. Which craft techniques have you worked with? I work with a variety of printing and embroideries – block, kantha, kutch embroidery etc. I employ women who have migrated to the city from smaller towns and rural areas. They all have some basic skills […]
Interview with Designer Vidhi Singhania
Recognizing the role traditional handlooms and designs play in contemporary fashion, we are starting a series of interviews with fashion designers. We ask a set of questions to which the designers send their responses. We will intersperse these with interviews with the crafts persons to get both sides of the process being examined. As a […]
Interview with Designer Sonam Dubal
Recognizing the role traditional handlooms and designs play in contemporary fashion, we are starting a series of interviews with fashion designers. We ask a set of questions to which the designers send their responses. We will intersperse these with interviews with the crafts persons to get both sides of the process being examined. We understand […]
Interview with Fashion Designer Payal Jain
Recognizing the role traditional handlooms and designs play in contemporary fashion, in January we started a series of interviews with fashion designers. We ask a set of questions to which the designers send their responses. We will intersperse these with interviews with the crafts persons to get both sides of the process being examined. As […]
High End Craft
During a conference in Washington, D.C. a few weeks ago I happened upon an interesting exhibit at the Renwick Gallery in the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The American Art Museum, which frequently hosts shows from American artists and maintains the nation’s foremost collection of contemporary craft and “folk” art, is currently showing “High Fiber,” an […]