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  • Tête-à-Tête Tuesday: Art meets Fashion

    Tête-à-Tête Tuesday: Art meets Fashion

    On Cult, I am always on the lookout for some unique talent. This time its Art meets Fashion, an offbeat venture by Aarti Verma.

    Art meets Fashion reveals its purpose with its name itself.  This new born label came into being in September 2010. ‘Romance with art is a very old thing which with time started taking different shapes and forms’ says Aarti. Not surprised at her talent, considering she has studied art at the JJ School of Arts.

    From the collection Incredible India:

    ‘Inspiration comes from anything. I don’t like to follow the same style.’ Experimentation is her key indulgence.

    From the collection Tribal Inspiration:

    ‘My favourite subjects are tribal art, bold patterns, Indian art. I love fusing the western cut with the Indian intricacy.’

    How different is it from an out there corporate job? ‘Its quite different from a regular 9 to 5 job. The immense satisfaction and pleasure you get after every creation is something money can’t buy.’

    More from Tribal Inspiration:

    The biggies she admires are artists and designers (happen to be my personal favourites as well) – Sabyasachi Mukherji, Manish Arora, Raja Ravi Verma and Salvador Dali. The price range, fortunately, is more realistic varying from Rs.600 with minimal work on cotton canvas and up till Rs.3500 for silk.

    Art meets Fashion products retail at Bliss, Mumbai and Chilli Billi, Bangalore. You can also place orders on the official blog or Facebook page.

  • Pigflower: The T-Shirt is back!

    Pigflower: The T-Shirt is back!

    There was a time t-shirts were the ‘it’ thing to wear. Then the whole fashion brigade galloped in almost stealing away the simplicity and absolute comfort of the simple garment in question. Don’t you fear, you lazy comfort-o-maniac – this time they are back and how.

    The shape and silhouette remains, but the prints and statements become bolder. There is art mixed with wit, abstract countered by pop, kitsch with desi. The t-shirt has a voice which is not willing to bow down to fashion, the plan seems to be to lead the way.

    Cult through the coming weeks will take you through several off beat design houses involved in this rather unconventional movement of sorts. One such find is Pigflower.

    Pigflower, located in Bangalore, was founded in 2008. From what I could hunt out, they retail at the Masala Chai Store, Chennai; Thulp Cafe and Two Monks, Bangalore. You can also purchase them online by dropping them an email.

    Here are few of their works.

    And there is my favourite – The Fish Finger!

    Images Courtesy: Pigflower

    For more on Pigflower, follow them on Facebook and Twitter.

    Link: Pigflower