I could not be more thrilled to announce the birth of 📣 THE OFFBEAT SARI 📣opening at the @designmuseum next spring! It’s an exhibition I have been musing over for an age and developing in secret for two years. The Offbeat Sari is a major gallery exhibition and book that will look at how the sari has been reinvented in recent years 🥻 . It will explore how designers are experimenting with hybrid forms and with innovative materials like steel ⛓. It will look at how young people in cities who used to associate the sari with dressing up can now be found wearing saris and sneakers on their commutes to work 👟 . Visitors will find out how individuals are wearing the sari as an expression of resistance to social norms and activists are embodying it as an object of protest 👊🏽 Today, the sari in urban India is a site for so much design innovation, an expression of identity, and a crafted object carrying layers of cultural meanings. The exhibition will unravel the sari as a metaphor for the complex definitions of India today. If you live in England, be poised to see the sari in ways you may not expect 🌪🌪 More info in the link in my bio or via @designmuseum. Can’t wait to say more about the amazing designers and collaborators involved in this project in due course 💫💫💫 Sari: quilted concept sari by HUEMN #theoffbeatsari #designmuseum #exhibition #indianfashion #thesari #indiandesign #exhibition