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SHIVAN & NARRESH Launches its Gond Art-inspired Koi Series Collection at LMIFW  SS'19 NEW DELHI, Oct 13, 2018 – SHIVAN & NARRESH, India's first luxury holiday brand, announced the launch of its latest collection - Koi Series - at the recently concluded Lotus Make-Up India Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2019 in New Delhi. The collection features 6 new prints - eponymous Koi, Koi Coal, Mattie, Vann, Urvi and Iconotribe, where it captures the indigenous art form of the late 20th century.  The SHIVAN & NARRESH Koi Series captures the finer nuances of Dravidian Gond art - characterized through decorative motifs and patterns arranged through dots, dashes, lines and circles - and coalesces it with chromatic inspiration from the bustling spice markets of Ottoman-era Turkey, each discovered by the designers on their recent travels. The effortless amalgamation of these contrasting design aesthetics, initiates the foundation for the new collection inspired by ...

Collection Note + Pictures - Ministry of Textiles, Government of India and the Australian Government Presents 5 Australian designer’s collections @ Lotus Make Up India Fashion Week In  Association with Nexa SS '19 www.fhoto.co.in The Indo-Australian Project is a presentation of 5 Australian designer’s collections that have been  created with stunning hand loomed textiles and artisan embellishments through Artisans of Fashion’s artisan partners. The project was conceived as part of an Indo-Australian agreement between the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India and the Australian Government in India to support the ongoing cultural and trade relationships in the fashion and textile industries. Caroline Poiner, the founder of Artisans of Fashion was engaged by the Australian High Commission to curate the collections and the event. Artisans of Fashion wasfoundedin 2012with the intent to preserve the traditionalcraft techniques by  linking the ar...