Schiaparelli, Valentino, Chanel — every house this season borrowed from us. Coincidence?
Five years ago Indian motifs at Paris Couture were a quiet whisper. This season they are the loudest thing in the room.
“It's not appropriation if you put the karigars on the runway.”
Schiaparelli closed with a mirror-work gown credited to the Kachhi karigars of Bhuj. Valentino flew six Lucknowi chikan masters to Paris and named them in the show notes. This is the shift.
It's not appropriation if you put the karigars on the runway.
— Global Desk
OK but the zardozi detail?? I'm SOBBING this is craftsmanship.
Sabya never misses. Never. NEVER.
Beautiful but my niece's wedding lehenga had similar work and cost half. Just saying.
She understood the assignment AND wrote her own version. Iconic.
the jewelry tho 🫠