Partners Hadia Khan, Sheena Rizvi, and Mohsin Sayeed are old friends, who understand each other, and work well together. Mohsin Sayeed is excited. On this warm Karachi afternoon, he plays a video on his phone featuring The Pink Tree Company’s.
Instep Today
Sun, 02, 21
Tradition is one of the most vital links to our past and reviving it through fabric, fashion and palpably through what we wear is only a definitive, concrete and vividly tangible form of archiving that evokes nostalgia and longing for days of yore.
Three of Pakistan’s most rejoiced cultural commodities, coveted across the globe, would be television dramas, cuisine and textiles or fashion. And in the midst of the growing fashion industry are some celebrated revivalists whose body of work has helped bridge the gap between the era of yore and today’s social media savvy, hypersonic trending age of modernity.
Photos: Faisal Farooqui @ Dragonfly
The masks were on. The seating spaced out. But there were lights, live music, a glittery audience and a catwalk, that once ubiquitous installation that had receded into the shadows thanks to the coronavirus pandemic.
Zainab Chottani’s show was called Bagh-i-Ishq (Garden of Love) and it was truly a love for her design house, built so diligently over the years, that prompted her to fly solo while the world is still in the throes of a pandemic. And it was a love for design and the catwalk which prompted the audience to attend the show, even if it were from behind the restraints of face masks.