- CollegeLondon College of Fashion
- CourseMA Fashion Design Technology (Womenswear)
- Graduation year2025
My collection emerged from a return to memory; familial, cultural, and material. Designing within a multicultural existence had led me to confront hesitation, distortion and the quiet ways identity accumulates over time. I came to understand memory not as recollection but as sensation, expanding and reshaping itself until it grows larger than the moment that formed it. This became the anchor for my oversized silhouettes, which hold the wearer in a scale reminiscent of childhood. Sustainability formed the second axis of my inquiry: 95% of the collection was crafted from rejected brocades, discarded leather scraps and tomato-waste bioleather. Through these material and cultural convergences, the collection reflects my belief that fashion can serve as a living archive of overlapping histories and meanings. My work talks about REPRESENTATION, CULTURE IDENTITY, COMMUNITY, FUNCTION and Sustainability as a mindset.
Final work
Look 1- Lahaan
Lahaan, translates to younger one in Marathi. The big proportions indicate massive clothes worn by a child showing connection to memory and blowing things out of proportion. The look is 100% dead stock fabric:
The Teal coloured silk is sourced directly from the HANDLOOM weaver community of Azamgarh, India. Made generations ago using pure metal woven with fine hand dyed silk yarn. The big yellow zipper is dead stock paired with a custom 3D printed giant carabiner as zipper puller.
look 2- Dur
An experiment with innovative bio leather material made of tomato waste, sourced from an innovative startup in India. The vest is asymmetric lined with buffalo checks handwoven in southern India. The skorts are made in the same tomato leather that creates a sensory sound effect when walking due to friction of the unique texture. green shirt made of repurposed fine mulmul fabric curtains. Multiple pockets are rooted in utilitarian archetype paired with big proportion laces. Multilayering creates a fun take on this archetype.
LOOK 3- Shaala
shaala: means school, referencing school memory of a backpack and the archetype of a roll top rucksack clashed with a sports tank top. The backpack is a fully functional pack at core but is actually a halter neck tank top, the roll top makes the neckline and side pocket make as garment utility pockets. The skirt is a pull string rouching skirt with handloom cotton and decorative traditional tapes used as pull strings with sports chord stoppers.
LOOK 4- Motha
Motha: means the bigger one
it has 4 layers of garments:- a Denim moon shaped trouser with handloom panels, a madras checks handloom wrap skirt, a dead stock multi panel massive proportion sweatshirt with very long sleeves, and a detachable rectangular roll top backpack pocket attached to the front torso panel of the sweatshirt. The sweatshirt is heavily lined with denim to support the pocket and conceptually to portray weight of memories and it heavy impact on individuals. The pocket is made of handloom heritage silk sourced directly from the weaver community in northern India.
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