Creating a blend of age-old royal fabric-Mugs Silk and creative streaks of designer Samant Chauhan, Golden Threads of Assam,is first of its kind off-site show, enlivened at The National Rail Museum, New Delhi.
The designer’s homage to Jamalpur, a small railway town he grew up in, said, everything in this collection can be traced to what i saw when i first began to travel. The window frame was my reference”, says the designer.
The entire collection is done in white and gold, with embroidered wheat stalks, maize and flowers on muga silk fabric is serene. The models sashay down the makeshift runway between two trains with slick hair and nude makeup. The accessories are a treat with vintage weekender bags, authentic leather suitcases and leather boots.
This Golden Threads of Assam, was to help the weavers and reared of mega silk as well as to “preserve, protect and promote” muga silk from getting extinct, which is endemic only to Assam.
Contributed by – Jasleen Kaur
Pics by- Khushal Agarwal
