Photograph from Amar Ramesh’s Dying Art series | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Who are you, what…
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Chennai-based brand Mookuthi reimagines the nose pin as a contemporary symbol of memory and heritage
A nose pin design of Mookuthi. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Certain ornaments carry more than…
Kalamkari: Wall panels to saris, how a Hyderabad-Tirupati organisation has kept storytelling alive
A nine-foot tall, 15-foot wide hand-drawn kalamkari wall panel, dyed in natural colours, dresses up Mamata…
A new sari collection to honour Ahilyabai Holkar’s 300th birth anniversary
As you wander the narrow lanes towards Ahilya Fort in Maheshwar, located around an hour and…
In Chennai, Swiss luxury watch boutique TimeVallée opens third outlet in the country
A view of the TimeVallée boutique in Chennai | Photo Credit: Dhruv Mehta How do you…
From looms to labels: Kochi’s fashion boom
Way back in 2018, in the aftermath of the floods in Kochi, a group of stakeholders…
India’s milliners are adding a feather to the fashion industry’s cap
India’s fascination for headgear does not only extend to the socio-religious ambit with taqiyah, EXPLAIN taqiyah…
‘His work outlived the noise’: Tarun Tahiliani on the legacy of Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani
Last Wednesday, while packing for a flight to Dubai, I tossed the Financial Times magazine into…
Arani silk weaving: How NIFT students learn from heritage artisans
The quaint green village of Athimalaipattu, 14 km from Arani in Tamil Nadu, wakes up before…
The many textures of Rimzim Dadu
She’s known today for her steel-wire saris but Rimzim Dadu started her career with models stomping…