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Met Gala Sari

Sabyasachi Mukherjee, 2022

Printed tulle, embroidered silk with floss thread, bevel beads, semi-precious stones, crystals, sequins and appliquéd printed velvet

Worn with accompanying blouse, petticoat and trail

Bustier encircled by rings of Saturn

Daniel Roseberry for Maison Schiaparelli, 2022

Hand-forged metal

Sabyasachi x Schiaparelli

This showstopping ensemble juxtaposes a flowing gold sari by Sabyasachi with the armour of a gold Schiaparelli bustier. Worn by Indian businesswoman and socialite Natasha Poonawalla at the 2022 Met Gala, it was the first time a sari had ever been worn at this celebrated New York event. The embroidered tulle sari with a dramatic train was paired with the bustier by stylist Anaita Shroff Adajania in a radical interpretation of the dress code, ‘Gilded Glamour’.

Bengal Tiger Couture Sari

Sabyasachi Mukherjee, 2022

Silk with block-print and hand-embroidered stripes

Worn with accompanying strapless blouse and petticoat

Yellow Floral Sari

Sabyasachi Mukherjee, 2018

Block-printed silk

Worn with accompanying blouse, petticoat and belt

Sabyasachi

Bringing together grassroots craft with a contemporary bridal client-base has enabled Sabyasachi Mukherjee to establish one of the most influential Indian fashion businesses of recent decades. The Kolkata-based designer employs the Bengal tiger as his emblem, and was inspired by its thick orange and black stripes for his elaborately crafted 2022 collection. The brand’s work with block-printed chintzes has been responsible for a significant resurgence in the popularity of floral saris today.*

Glamour

Couture saris with lavish ornamentation have been a feature of Indian fashion since the 1990s, when a flurry of newly established brands responded to a surge of financial optimism in India after the economy was liberalised. Through voluminous silhouettes, rich textiles, embroidery and details such as ruffles, such saris are designed for opulent weddings or red–carpet events among South Asians and the global diaspora.

The work of these design houses presents an ambitious vision of Indian glamour that often draws on the legacy of the regal courts of northern India. Their sense of Indian fashion as the epitome of extravagance often finds expression in Bollywood films, which are a strong marker of Indian identity for a broad audience.*

From the exhibition

The Offbeat Sari

(May – September 2023)

A major exhibition celebrating the contemporary sari. Curated by our Head of Curatorial, Priya Khanchandani, this exhibition unravels its numerous forms, demonstrating the sari to be a metaphor for the layered and complex definitions of India today. It brings together dozens of the finest saris of our time from designers, wearers and craftspeople in India.

Worn as an everyday garment by some and considered by others to be formal or uncomfortable, the sari has multiple definitions. Conventionally an unstitched drape wrapped around the body, which can be draped in a variety of ways, its unfixed form has enabled it to morph and absorb changing cultural influences.

In recent years, the sari has been reinvented. Designers are experimenting with hybrid forms such as sari gowns and dresses, pre-draped saris and innovative materials such as steel. Young people in cities who used to associate the sari with dressing up can now be found wearing saris and sneakers on their commutes to work. Individuals are wearing the sari as an expression of resistance to social norms and activists are embodying it as an object of protest.

Today, the sari in urban India manifests as a site for design innovation, an expression of identity, and a crafted object carrying layers of cultural meanings. The exhibition unravels the sari as a metaphor for the complex definitions of India today.

[*Design Musem]

Taken in the Design Musem

Sabyasachi Mukherjee, 2022

Printed tulle, embroidered silk with floss thread, bevel beads, semi-precious stones, crystals, sequins and appliquéd printed velvet

Worn with accompanying blouse, petticoat and trail

Bustier encircled by rings of Saturn

Daniel Roseberry for Maison Schiaparelli, 2022

Hand-forged metal

Sabyasachi x Schiaparelli

This showstopping ensemble juxtaposes a flowing gold sari by Sabyasachi with the armour of a gold Schiaparelli bustier. Worn by Indian businesswoman and socialite Natasha Poonawalla at the 2022 Met Gala, it was the first time a sari had ever been worn at this celebrated New York event. The embroidered tulle sari with a dramatic train was paired with the bustier by stylist Anaita Shroff Adajania in a radical interpretation of the dress code, ‘Gilded Glamour’.

Glamour

Couture saris with lavish ornamentation have been a feature of Indian fashion since the 1990s, when a flurry of newly established brands responded to a surge of financial optimism in India after the economy was liberalised. Through voluminous silhouettes, rich textiles, embroidery and details such as ruffles, such saris are designed for opulent weddings or red–carpet events among South Asians and the global diaspora.

The work of these design houses presents an ambitious vision of Indian glamour that often draws on the legacy of the regal courts of northern India. Their sense of Indian fashion as the epitome of extravagance often finds expression in Bollywood films, which are a strong marker of Indian identity for a broad audience.*

From the exhibition

The Offbeat Sari

(May – September 2023)

A major exhibition celebrating the contemporary sari. Curated by our Head of Curatorial, Priya Khanchandani, this exhibition unravels its numerous forms, demonstrating the sari to be a metaphor for the layered and complex definitions of India today. It brings together dozens of the finest saris of our time from designers, wearers and craftspeople in India.

Worn as an everyday garment by some and considered by others to be formal or uncomfortable, the sari has multiple definitions. Conventionally an unstitched drape wrapped around the body, which can be draped in a variety of ways, its unfixed form has enabled it to morph and absorb changing cultural influences.

In recent years, the sari has been reinvented. Designers are experimenting with hybrid forms such as sari gowns and dresses, pre-draped saris and innovative materials such as steel. Young people in cities who used to associate the sari with dressing up can now be found wearing saris and sneakers on their commutes to work. Individuals are wearing the sari as an expression of resistance to social norms and activists are embodying it as an object of protest.

Today, the sari in urban India manifests as a site for design innovation, an expression of identity, and a crafted object carrying layers of cultural meanings. The exhibition unravels the sari as a metaphor for the complex definitions of India today.

[*Design Musem]

Taken in the Design Musem

Sabyasachi Mukherjee, 2022

Printed tulle, embroidered silk with floss thread, bevel beads, semi-precious stones, crystals, sequins and appliquéd printed velvet

Worn with accompanying blouse, petticoat and trail

Bustier encircled by rings of Saturn

Daniel Roseberry for Maison Schiaparelli, 2022

Hand-forged metal

Sabyasachi x Schiaparelli

This showstopping ensemble juxtaposes a flowing gold sari by Sabyasachi with the armour of a gold Schiaparelli bustier. Worn by Indian businesswoman and socialite Natasha Poonawalla at the 2022 Met Gala, it was the first time a sari had ever been worn at this celebrated New York event. The embroidered tulle sari with a dramatic train was paired with the bustier by stylist Anaita Shroff Adajania in a radical interpretation of the dress code, ‘Gilded Glamour’.

Glamour

Couture saris with lavish ornamentation have been a feature of Indian fashion since the 1990s, when a flurry of newly established brands responded to a surge of financial optimism in India after the economy was liberalised. Through voluminous silhouettes, rich textiles, embroidery and details such as ruffles, such saris are designed for opulent weddings or red–carpet events among South Asians and the global diaspora.

The work of these design houses presents an ambitious vision of Indian glamour that often draws on the legacy of the regal courts of northern India. Their sense of Indian fashion as the epitome of extravagance often finds expression in Bollywood films, which are a strong marker of Indian identity for a broad audience.*

From the exhibition

The Offbeat Sari

(May – September 2023)

A major exhibition celebrating the contemporary sari. Curated by our Head of Curatorial, Priya Khanchandani, this exhibition unravels its numerous forms, demonstrating the sari to be a metaphor for the layered and complex definitions of India today. It brings together dozens of the finest saris of our time from designers, wearers and craftspeople in India.

Worn as an everyday garment by some and considered by others to be formal or uncomfortable, the sari has multiple definitions. Conventionally an unstitched drape wrapped around the body, which can be draped in a variety of ways, its unfixed form has enabled it to morph and absorb changing cultural influences.

In recent years, the sari has been reinvented. Designers are experimenting with hybrid forms such as sari gowns and dresses, pre-draped saris and innovative materials such as steel. Young people in cities who used to associate the sari with dressing up can now be found wearing saris and sneakers on their commutes to work. Individuals are wearing the sari as an expression of resistance to social norms and activists are embodying it as an object of protest.

Today, the sari in urban India manifests as a site for design innovation, an expression of identity, and a crafted object carrying layers of cultural meanings. The exhibition unravels the sari as a metaphor for the complex definitions of India today.

[*Design Musem]

Taken in the Design Musem

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