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Nazranaa Unveils Samskriti 2.0

at New York Fashion Week With Bollywood

Actor Bhumi Pednekar as Showstopper

SS27 collection celebrates India’s architecture, spirituality, literature and intellectual legacy through couture

while a net veil was finished with scal-
OUR BUREAU
loped lotuses throughout. Pednekar’s
New York, NY appearance connected Indian cultur-
al heritage with contemporary global
azranaa, the leading South fashion, closing a runway conceived
Asian fashion and bridalwear
Nbrand founded by sibling de- as a visual exploration of India’s cre-
ative and intellectual legacy.
signer duo Shivangi Gupta Singh and “There is something very spe-
Shashank Gupta, unveiled its SS27 cial about seeing Indian culture cel-
collection, Samskriti 2.0, during New ebrated on a global stage like New
York Fashion Week on September 16 York Fashion Week,” said Bhumi
at Refectory Chelsea in New York City. Pednekar. Closing the show for
Bollywood actor Bhumi Ped-
nekar closed the runway as the eve- Nazranaa’s Samskriti 2.0 felt incred-
ibly special because of the way they
ning’s showstopper, bringing the took stories, symbols and traditions
collection’s celebration of Indian that are so deeply rooted in India
heritage and craftsmanship to a dra- and translated them into beautiful,
matic finale. modern couture. The craftsmanship
Building on last year’s Samskri-
ti, Samskriti 2.0 draws from India’s of Belur Math-inspired look was ex-
traordinary, and wearing something
architecture, spirituality, festivals, with so much thought and meaning
literature, mathematics and poetry, behind every detail made the mo-
translating centuries-old ideas into ment feel extremely powerful.”
contemporary couture.
“For us, Samskriti was a defin- wear jackets. One interprets Acharya
ing moment in our design language,” Pingala’s Meru Prastara, a pattern of
said Shashank Gupta, co-founder long and short Vedic syllables that
and designer of Nazranaa. “With predates Pascal’s Triangle and the
Samskriti 2.0, we continue using Fibonacci sequence, through Laghu,
fashion to bring India’s extraordi- Guru, 1 and 0. The other transforms
nary temples, texts and intellectual 7th-century Sanskrit poet Māgha’s
traditions to a global audience. We Sarvatobhadra, a multidirectional
want each garment to spark curiosity pattern poem, into a reversible geo-
about the story behind it.” metric design.
Indian architecture, spirituality The evening brought togeth-
and celebration appear through ref- er leaders and tastemakers across
erences to the Meenakshi Temple, fashion, entertainment, media and
Prem Mandir, the Jagannath Puri culture. Seated in the front row were
Rath Yatra, Holi and Raas Leela. A Apoorva Mukhija, popularly known
Meenakshi-inspired lehenga evokes as The Rebel Kid, Actor Aryan Sim-
the temple’s sculptural grandeur, hadri, Actor Saara Chaudry, Cre-
while a Vrindavan-inspired piece ators Aviva Mehta, Anip Patel, Kripa
honors Radha and Krishna. Joshi, and model Ritika Khatnani.
“Some of the most personal piec- Showstopper Bhumi Pednekar
es come from stories we have known wore a hand-embroidered velvet
since childhood,” said Shivangi Gup- lehenga and blouse inspired by the
ta Singh, co-founder of Nazranaa. Ramakrishna Temple at Belur Math,
“Our mother was born in Mathura, whose architecture brings together
and we grew up spending time in elements of Hindu temples, mosques
Mathura and Vrindavan, surround- and churches as a reflection of beau-
ed by stories of Radha and Krishna. ty in diversity and the idea of a uni-
Samskriti 2.0 brings that emotional versal faith. The swan, representing
connection to a New York runway.” the Paramatman or Supreme Self
India’s mathematical and liter- in Swami Vivekananda’s emblem,
ary history also appears in two mens- formed the central focus of the skirt,

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