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Slide COLLECTION BAYADÈRE A TALE OF CRAFTS AND STITCHERS FROM INDIAN LEATHER CRAFTS HERITAGE COMMUNITY

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Slide STRIPES RE-EDIT OUR CORE MODELS, NAMED AFTER STRIPE FABRIC BAYADÈRE. A PRINT INSPIRED BY INDIAN DANCERS CALLED DEVADASIS.

DEVADASIS WERE RESPECTED AMONG SOCIETY BEFORE THE CASTE SYSTEM WITHDRAWN THEM FOR BHARATHANATYAM. DEVADASIS ENDED TO BE CONSIDERED DALITS, SOME END UP IN PROSTITUTION.
TODAY, THIS ICONIC DANCE CAN BE PERFORMED ONLY BY BRAHMIN GIRLS.

IN THE RED LIGHTS DISTRICTS, BODIES PROMISED TO GODDESS AS RELIGIOUS DUTY ARE EXPLOITED. AS LONG AS THE SEX INDUSTRY IS LUCRATIVE, IT WILL KEEP DEVADASIS CHAINED.

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Slide RE-RUBBER: RECYCLED TIRE WASTE

A QUEST OF CASTE EQUALITY THROUGH
SELF-SOVEREIGNTY AND LIBERATION WITH CRAFTS, DESIGN, CONTEMPORARY ART AS TOOLS.

In India, leather workers, cobblers, tanners, treated as untouchables are self-identifying as Dalits, it means Broken in Sanskrit. CHAMAR IS A TURNING POINT FOR THE PEOPLE 'BEYOND THE FOUR CASTES' WHO STITCH TOGETHER IN A CLAIM FOR IDENTITY DIGNITY AND THEIR ANCIENT HISTORY.
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