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DESIGNER SPOTLIGHT
RESPONSIBLE
CLOTHING
Brind Gill profiles Santanu Das, Designer and Founder of
Brinda
Maku Textiles, Kolkata, and is very impressed with how he
focuses on indigo dye to urge consumers to consciously think
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about the choices they make.
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Designing
saris and stitched garments with handwoven textiles that have been
only with indigo yarn may be limiting for some; however, it has been a
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conscious choice for Santanu Das, Designer and Founder of Maku Textiles,
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Kolkata. Through this seemingly narrow choice, he creates collections of stitched
Kolkat
unstitched garments—of khadi and handwoven cotton and silk fabrics—
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infused with a simple aesthetic and with the beauty of indigo.
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Santanu
believes that the history of textiles runs parallel to human civilisation, a
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coded time machine reaching out to our emotions as a testimony of our heritage,
culture and skill, and regards indigo as a colour of sustenance. And most of all,
garments are steeped in the ethos of his design approach and life philosophy
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