In post-independent India, a student of art history, Ritu Kumar stumbled upon a printing unit in West Bengal. And from those serendipitous beginnings, her now over five-decades-old eponymous brand was born. It was a unique time in India’s sartorial history-there was an immense sense of pride and a focus on indigenous, but without a design vocabulary or any commercial infrastructure in place. “We had lost the paisley, we had lost the cashmere shawl. What I did was that I drew these designs, made blocks out of them, and created saris, coats and shawls from different types of designs in hand blocks,” says Kumar who showcases some of her earliest works at ‘India in Fashion’, a first-of-its-kind costume arts exhibition at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre.
𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 '𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗶𝗻 𝗙𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗗𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗜𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻' 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗻 nmacc.com/
*Free entry for children under 7, fashion & art school students and senior citizens.
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14 авг 2024
