What happens when two fashion designers sit down to challenge each other and their own hardbound ideas? A dialogue that sees tradition squaring off against transformation, shaped by individuality and a collective expression. We asked fashion designers Anavila Misra and Yash Patil to decode their revivalist approach to textile traditions. Let their free-flowing conversations fuel your creative fire.
Marrying traditional crafts with modern techniques
Anavila Misra: I grew up on a campus in Karnal where boys became engineers and girls became doctors. Fashion design was unheard of, but my mother was trained in fine arts and was a big influence in my life. So for me, traditional craft is about love. If you spend some time looking at an antique textile you will always discover something new, like a motif hidden in the corner or irregular symmetry. There’s magic in that imperfection and that’s what makes it special.
Yash Patil: It was the same for me. My grandmother wore a traditional…