SANJAY GARG FESTIVE | 2016

Classics transcend flawless design;

they gain meaning through history,

culture and context. Questioning the

need for reinvention, this collection

appropriates weightless ornamentation

through nine woven motifs, each

hundreds of years old. The chand booti’s

crescent moon, single thread kardhwa

weave and Lakshmi’s ashrafi coins find new

light as occasion wear, needing no intervention.

Instead, it is the wearer who dictates their

relevance - one who disregards borders within

our country - seamlessly marrying a thewa borla

and gulband with a Benarasi sari. Set against

Rajasthan’s Jawai River, the diversity of India’s

regional aesthetics shine; rich as the soil

and eternal as time.

Photographed by: Ashish shah