Fashion always has its inspirations from something and somewhere, whether they are fashion line collections by top fashion designers or the street style mix and match. The creation of something unique and natural comes from different places and art, as fashion and art are connected, art and craft have a great influence on fashion and trends.
India is rich with its ethnicity from crafts and art, wonderful creations of fabrication and art techniques are inspired by this beautiful Artistic India, that’s what I would like to call it. National resources and ancient techniques of fabrications, themes, prints, art, and crafts have inspired fashion today in haute couture to the casual beauty of fashion. Places where ancient crafts are found, or as an artistic inspiration for fashion themes, are found in different places of India.
Top 7 Artistic Creations of India influencing Fashion
- Sri Digambar Jain Lal Mandir – Delhi
This temple located in Delhi has rich artistic interiors, on the walls and ceilings. The bold colors worked on pink, blue, red, maroon, rust, which adds its beauty with gold, the floral motifs in vale from the look to attain its beauty of art.
Fashion inspired by this re-creates the effect of the art on the walls and pillars, in golden floral vale motifs. You can see a lot of this in Manish Malhotra lehenga borders, which are rich in golden zari embroidery on contrast base border panels.
- Blue City – Jodhpur
The beauty of the landscape look in Jodhpur, reveals the blue painted walls of the upscaling houses, which creates a beautiful blue scenario from an altitude. The cities of Rajasthan have their special crafts and art, which the Blue city inspires by the blue paint color in fashion.
The traditional fabrics of dyes made in Rajasthan, bring the blue art of batik very common to men. The batik has been used in traditional and modern fashion styling apparel.
- Moon Palace – Jaipur
The place of Kings, Jaipur also has been ancient arts and crafts which are still being used in fashion till now. The Moon Palace aka Chandra Mahal in Jaipur has its interior in blue artery techniques. In traditional motifs, the ceiling and walls are painted in blue and white fascinating art to inspire the national motifs and use.
The painting motifs and patterns with blue art are used by designers to create their line collection at fashion runways. The latest collection at WIFW 2014 by Pratima Pandey displayed the theme and inspiration of blue art from Moon Palace in her designs.
Tribal prints and Colors – Jaipur
The city of Jaipur also known for its textiles and prints, in the vintage patterns and motifs of national ancient look, has inspired many fashion designers and trends. Currently, the bright prints in cultural prints seen and depicted by Global Desi by Anita Dongre have her inspirations well set from Jaipur.
The use of the bold vivid colors and prints in trees, leaves, sun, landscapes, and tribal prints from Jaipur for Global Desi, has stolen the heart of the Indian Bohemian style of dressing. Art of Mithila, Madhubani, has been used artistically in the cotton fabrics to bring the Indian cultural fashion out globally.
- Ramanathaswamy Temple – Tamil Nadu
This is another religious temple of south India located in Tamil Nadu, the sculptures of the national Lotus motif have been expressed in the temple, at ceilings and pillars, and has colors that bring out the beauty of the stone sculpture enhancing the beauty of the lotus.
Lotus motifs have been used and depicted in many ways, in fashion by different designers, in heavy bridals, to simple ethnic wear or Indo westerns. Using the mixture of this motif, and its beautiful bright colors of yellow, pink, green, orange, in a rich fabric like silk, has been graced up at fashion show by Gaurang Shah, designed the sarees in silk Paithani Sarees in Lotus motifs and colors.
- Golden Temple – Amritsar
The divine temple in Punjab, Amritsar has not the only holy influence of the culture spread all around but the touch of the beautiful Golden Temple with Gold has been ancient, from the fashion element of embroidery in a gold fabric known as Gotta.
Gotta has been used all over India which originates from Punjab, in wedding wear, bridal wear, to the new look of contemporary fashion, the traditional use of gotta in embroidery is simply artistic.
- Tie & Dye, Bandhani – Gujarat
The state of Gujarat as well known for its textiles and fabrication skills has been brought out to the notice by the international market of tie and dye technique of Bandhani. The dying process consists of bright, dark colors and small seeds or stones to create patterns on the fabric, well mix, and matched color combos to increase its grace.
Bandhani is worn in casual to wedding wear, found in new colors and patterns from tie and dye process, which bring more colors and designs in existence, the fashion of wearing traditional textiles or fabrics has emerged the creations of bandhani is a new trend. A lehenga created in bandhani, well concept to wear on occasions and functions.
This was a short brief of the rich places and arts and crafts of India, showing how immense India is with its artistic look, discovered for the use and inspiration to our fashion Industry. From North to South all places have their traditional culture and techniques of art and craft depicted in fashion, becoming the new trend of reviving the old to the new look with inspirations from real places.
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