This Summer a host of leading Indian fashion designers taking a leap forward to revive and promote the age-old fabric Khadi.
An impressive exhibition of Khadi garments titled Khadi: The fabric of freedom has just concluded at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai. The exhibition will now go to other metropolitan cities including Kolkata and Bangalore.
This exhibition, sponsored by Volkart Foundation, Switzerland, features ensembles by the seven leading fashion designers including Ritu Kumar, Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla, Manish Arora, Asha Sarabhai and Raghavendra Rao. It is the first one to be held on such a large scale.
Khadi: The fabric of freedom has culminated after two years of extensive research by Rahul Jain, a well-qualified textile technologist from India. More than hundred different varieties of both refined and coarse Khadi from Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Karnataka, UP and Bihar are showcased in this exhibition.
It also has 108 Khadi saris and nine ensembles each by seven leading fashion designers.
In addition, panel discussions on Khadi and the children’s workshop on spinning are also being held to promote the Khadi awareness among today’s youth.
This Summer a host of leading Indian fashion designers taking a leap forward to revive and promote the age-old fabric Khadi. 