#ifw14

After a successful meeting with the well connected Caroline Young and the very talented Aneeth Arora a collaboration was born and I started my busy week immediately. 

Aneeth is a clothes designer, she makes wonderful handmade garments under the name pèro. Everything in her collections are hand made, from the weavers making the fabric, the dying of the fabrics, to the tailors and the hand embroiders. India's Fashion Week was commencing in two days, so everyone was working fast to prepare for the show.

My job is to document the process of the making of the delightful pèro clothes, document the fashion Week, the catwalk and the backstage madness to create contemporary tapestries to display on Aneeth's stand at the India Fashion Week.

This is my first days work created in the pèro workshop, observing the workers in stitch on to fabrics all from the pèro archive and using scraps of the Autumn Winter Collection as the workers are.

A distinctive feature on many of Aneeth's clothes are the small embroidered knots which will hem your collar or sleeves. Once I had finished the stitch, I handed it to the nimble fingered gentleman and he completed the piece by embellishing the sides with small blue and white knots. 

A nice atmosphere to work in as the room was in a deep relaxing state of concentration, as we all stitched the day away.