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Designer Madhu Jain recently unveiled her Bangladeshi collection.
A look....
Madhu Jain, a designer known for her seamless blending of couture and
culture staged her Bangladeshi collection recently using Nakshikanta embroidery
on black and silver grey Dhaka muslin and silk featured in simple Indian
silhouettes with narrow trousers, muslin tunics and embroidered overcoats.
The Nakshikanta embroidery created in Bangladesh by the Bangladesh Rural
Advancement Committee (BRAC) is an attempt at reviving lost forms of fabric,
embroiders and designs, also with a view to rehabilitate thousands of
traditional craftsmen spread through Bangladesh.
Working
in association with BRAC, Madhu has used this embroidery which is done
with more than 60 to 70 different types of stitches to give the fabric
the natural crinkled effect. On this collection Madhu has worked
with Maheen Khan, her Bangladeshi counterpart who helped her with the
sourcing of the fabrics and finalising the embroidery techniques wherein
traditional motifs like the paisleys and the geometrics have been intricately
woven into Jamdani weaves.
Indeed, it was a lovely
showing of a well achieved collection after months of toiling with the Bangladeshi
craftsmen. The show was held in the beautifully lit up and embellished
garden of Madhu Jain’s brother Kamal Meattle, with a constructed stairway
rising from the garden to the house-top serving as the ramp. The models,
appeared like angels descending from the heavens above, walked around the
house and disappeared at the back to reappear on the roof-top all over again
Though it was difficult to make out the intricacy of the work while the
models walked the ramp, one could have a closer look at some of the work,
courtesy the display aesthetically spread all over the garden.
Fashion does not stop at one great collection...it has to move on.
It is important to preserve the old, the traditional but it is also very
important to preserve the very essence of being a designer - to evolve,
to create, to grow, to move on...constantly. |