Karishma Shahani’s at the London College of Fashion
The gods may be a capricious lot, but Karishma Shahani’s final-year collection at the London College of Fashion can only be described as divine-inspired. “Yatra” (“pilgrimage” in Hindi) is a breathtaking distillation of her native India, a land saturated by colors so intense they’re almost tangibls e, where “splendor and rags, palaces and hovels, genies and giants,” in Shahani’own words, coexist without contradiction. Inspired by India’s pantheon of many-faced deities above, the lineup also draws cues from the mortals toiling below, many of whom recycle and reuse not out of any sense of altruism, but because it’s a means of survival.
