On February 27, at Paris Fashion Week, Dior went back to the 60s. But instead of leaning into its ‘swinging’ tag, creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri had her models wend their way around life-size, cage-like cane forms. Crafted by Mumbai-based artist Shakuntala Kulkarni, the commanding pieces placed at the centre of the runway in Tuileries […]
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A little over 150 years ago, over 30,000 hand cut and mounted samples of Indian textiles were painstakingly organised into an album series to educate and inspire commercial and design industries in India and Britain. Its creator, John Forbes Watson, called them ‘trade museums’. Watson would have been pleased to walk around the ‘India in […]
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There is a fine spot in Mumbai’s industrial Snowball Studios — the site of the Mul Mathi exhibition — to quietly absorb the scale and ambition of a collaborative exercise that intersects art, craft and textiles. From there you see Manu Parekh’s original Evening Chanting glowing in the distance, while closer to your right looms the […]
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Among the country’s fashion cognoscenti, the pressure began building mid-March when the announcement was made: that the French luxury house Dior would be presenting its latest Fall 2023 collection at the iconic Gateway of India in Mumbai. Of the 99 models, most were South Asian, a first for a calendar collection, and making for a […]
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From Louis XIV’s vision for Versailles to Balenciaga’s homage to the sari, Inspired by India explores how our textiles and craft impacted global design. But what’s the line between cultural appropriation and appreciation? From Louis XIV’s vision for Versailles to Balenciaga’s homage to the sari, Inspired by India explores how our textiles and craft impacted […]
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