It helps you have a connection, whether it’s historical or contemporary, and also creates different points of view,” he adds.

Like no other, movies fuel the imagination and that includes what the heroes and heroines, their sidekicks and the many minor characters wear. India’s exceptional crafts community has brought its magical skills to the collections of the 21st century, forward-facing design visionaries.In the center of the chintz room, a new commission by Rahul Mishra brings the Tree of Life alive, with be-sequinned 3-D flowers and golden bugs.

Fashion designers in India have blended several elements of Indian traditional designs into conventional western wear to create a unique style of contemporary Indian fashion. A new book, India in Fashion (Rizzoli) , edited by Vogue Global Editor at Large and World of Interiors Editor in Chief Hamish Bowles, explores the nation’s sartorial legacy in vivid, expansive and captivating form. From the introduction of chintz dressmaking fabrics in the eighteenth century to the early nineteenth-century vogue for light Indian fabrics, paisleys, and chikan embroideries to larger realities of empire and cultural appropriation, this volume features paintings, fashion magazine editorials, and portraits of influential people who championed Indian style throughout history. An analysis of Harappan silk fibres in beads has shown that silk was made by the process of reeling, a process allegedly known only to China until the early centuries AD. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights.In 1986, the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India opened the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) in Delhi with the help of the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York. Everything about the “India in Fashion” exhibition in Mumbai is grand - the scale, the designers, the materials, the show’s opulence and last but not least, the venue itself. In February, Bengaluru-based artisanal handbag brand Aranyani chose London’s Mayfair for its first international outing.