📌 My Work
Sketches, research & process
A look at what went into this project, from early drawings to the Kardo Talk at Society of Cloth.
✏️ Sketches
🎤 Kardo x Kunal Merchant — Society of Cloth
From a question I couldn't answer to a jacket I actually made. Here's the rough version of how it went.
Digging into how South Asian textiles like indigo dyeing, block printing, and traditional silhouettes quietly made their way into Western fashion without much credit.
A handful of sketches working out the silhouette, the rice bag detail placement, and how to make a denim jacket feel like it holds two worlds at once.
Sourcing actual basmati rice bags — the same ones I grew up seeing — and figuring out what could be cut and worked directly into the jacket.
Cutting, sewing, unpicking seams, and trying again. Building the adjustable back tab, the double pleats, and getting everything to sit right.
Cutting and applying the Royal logo, the Himalayas graphic, the #1 marker, and hand-stitching a "V" from actual rice bag scraps.
Attending the Society of Cloth's Kardo x Kunal Merchant talk, which fed directly into the research and thinking behind this project.
A look at what went into this project, from early drawings to the Kardo Talk at Society of Cloth.
✏️ Sketches
🎤 Kardo x Kunal Merchant — Society of Cloth
Questions about the project, the jacket, or just want to talk heritage and fashion? I'd love to hear from you.
Reach out and let's talk textiles, traditions, and everything in between 🧵