Yesterday, I visited the Raw Mango exhibition/sale at Amethyst. Raw Mango is a good name for a label, and in this case its particularly apt. The collection is full of lime green, hot pink and other such slightly offbeat colours, which somehow seem to work surprisingly well shot through with silver and gold. The collection was called Songs of the Sparrow and pivotted around a simple sparrow, embroidered in various colours. Lotuses, paisleys and other motifs that form an integral part of the vocabulary of Indian design also found their place among the birds.
While all this feel-good (we are promoting traditional crafts!), luxury (amazingly soft material, vibrant colours, designer cache) Indianness doesnt come cheap, its not so far out of the realm of the possible either. By that I mean that I bought two saris. A mustard yellow/orange one with flashes of gold and a fushia pink one with delicate silver lines. All very diaphanous and luminous. Cant wait to find the right occasion for them!
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