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Brocade texture ceiling8/4/2023 “Beginning in the 17th century and continuing to this day, India’s impact on Western fashion has been a complicated and layered history of admiration, appropriation, exploitation and celebration” writes Bowles in his opening essay to the accompanying book of the same name.Ībout the design of the space where India in Fashion was housed, Shroff says, “Patrick and I worked together to come up with different scenographies for each of the sections. Curated by fashion journalist and editor Hamish Bowles and blueprinted by Patrick Kinmonth, a designer of sets for opera, and Mumbai-based architect Rooshad Shroff, the displays sprawled across a spacious hall and spanned centuries of India’s sway over Western aesthetics. The recently-concluded India in Fashion: The Impact of Indian Dress and Textiles on the Fashionable Imagination, at Mumbai’s spanking new Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (NMACC), was a powerful reminder of India’s influence on European fashion. The sindoor-red walls of the opening lobby were covered with a scanned brocade weave. The entrance to the exhibition featured multiple red arches.Ģ.
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