https://www.rashmivarma.com/fashion daily 1.0 2026-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52378864e4b04e9390b69568/1501690267665-ZO0YAGB3G6CCYPB08KMB/IMG_3178.jpg Fashion - Chikankari Chikankari is white threadwork. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52378864e4b04e9390b69568/1775752142905-BZI98PPA03MDQ8K2HS5C/Rashmi+Varma+C2+Web.jpg Fashion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52378864e4b04e9390b69568/1775492433717-JVMHCA401FMRT6CQ0SG0/Kalari2web.jpg Fashion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52378864e4b04e9390b69568/1548348782669-45F33BS6Q1YGQEFAJW3G/2+Rashmi+varma+2007+.jpg Fashion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52378864e4b04e9390b69568/1775756381746-02J5H6KWMSF4EKHKGLS8/RV+C1+Dabka+web.jpg Fashion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52378864e4b04e9390b69568/f9b2c91e-ef4b-42dd-9ef4-c43fb02db574/RV+C6+shisha+detail+web.jpeg Fashion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52378864e4b04e9390b69568/1775504141795-L5HJR4UG2L3FVYGSAED2/Goodearth+Grey+Top.jpg Fashion - Rashmi Varma for Good Earth Sustain, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52378864e4b04e9390b69568/1477998217568-ZAETF9805URZUC59VO7R/20160901_115107.jpg Fashion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52378864e4b04e9390b69568/023c9544-d0b0-427d-863a-b559a86cf79f/rvmachareimoor1.jpg Fashion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52378864e4b04e9390b69568/d0becf9d-5480-4a6f-b807-d432afd23073/RashmiV+C5+web.JPG Fashion https://www.rashmivarma.com/curatorial daily 0.75 2026-04-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52378864e4b04e9390b69568/1693596251596-D2DS8TG32NSF0YHPNH1Z/offbeatsari1.jpg Curatorial - The Offbeat Sari Rashmi Varma, Associate Curator The Design Museum, London, 2023 Woven from steel. Stitched from hand-distressed denim. Knotted, pleated or belted. Worn in protest, celebration, or simply on the daily commute. The offbeat sari is the sari radically reimagined by designers, wearers and makers for a diverse, contemporary world. Conventionally a single piece of unstitched fabric, the sari’s unfixed form is inherently fluid. Its many different shapes and textures, adapted over the course of millennia, reflect identity, social class, environment and function — and immense creativity. The sari is a language expressed through fabric, which has been intertwined with evolving cultural influences over time. In the past decade, the sari has been re-energised. Designers catering to a new generation across India’s burgeoning cities are experimenting with new drapes and innovative materials. Younger women, who previously associated the sari with dressing up, have transformed it into contemporary everyday fashion. Individuals are also embodying saris in ways that give voice to who they are, exploring plural and nonconforming identities, and challenging conventions of femininity. This exhibition explores the creative, often unexpected ways in which the sari is a site for design innovation and an empowering vessel for self-expression in India today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52378864e4b04e9390b69568/1775506915704-HN631BBJNQ7MN5Z7OXWS/No.+38+Ranchi+Saiko+Drape+-+Jharkhand%2C+India+%28side%29.jpg Curatorial - The Sari Series, 2017 Rashmi Varma, Associate Creative Director Created and Produced by Border&Fall The Sari Series is a digital anthology documenting India’s regional sari drapes through short films. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52378864e4b04e9390b69568/1775514497117-7D1EXMNTXQNG52PQL7M3/SAF2025-Infinite%2Bdrape-001_SD%2B%25281%2529%2B2.jpg Curatorial - Infinite Drape Rashmi Varma, Curator Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa, 2025 Infinite Drape explores the endless possibilities of sari draping in India. Ephemeral yet corporeal, these forms live briefly before returning to the cloth’s original state—only to begin again. Draping is both an everyday practice and a formal craft—an embodied technique honed through repetition, adaptation, and intuition. Imagine the first person to knot or tuck the sari in a new way, setting in motion a chain of adaptation across generations. Spanning time, is a knowledge system at once intangible and material, rooted in lived experience yet continuously open to change. Conversations around the sari often centre on its textile integrity as complex objects of craft, design, or expression. The practice of draping is often overlooked; each drape is more than a style: it is a story shaped by identity, geography, culture, caste, history, function, beauty, and desire. Over 100 styles have been documented, a diversity further enriched by other draped garments such as the dhoti, odhani, pagri, and shawls, which continue to sustain this sartorial tradition. At the heart of this exhibition is The Sari Series, a digital anthology created by Border&Fall in conversation with the saris of Raw Mango, a design house rooted in India’s textile traditions, aesthetics, and artisanal craft. Addressing the sari’s past, present, and future, the series documents eighty-four regional drapes through short videos based on Rta Kapur Chishti’s book Saris of India: Tradition and Beyond. Both The Sari Series and Raw Mango are reshaping the sari’s visual and cultural presence, through online media, evocative imagery, and new design vocabularies. They have contributed to a perceptible shift in how the sari is seen and worn, articulating draping as both personal and collective language. Infinite Drape highlights sixteen videos and proposes new styles of wearing. The exhibition also invites viewers to The Drapery, a space dedicated to crafting one’s own sari drapes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52378864e4b04e9390b69568/1549960883125-8E4UBWOPU4EPBJJ0PD5W/Mattersofhand-HR-002+%281%29.jpg Curatorial - Matters of Hand: Craft, Design & Technique Rashmi Varma, Curator Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa, 2018 Matters of Hand investigates the handmade as a sophisticated, living interface between utility and material intelligence. This survey positions India’s contemporary landscape through objects ranging from recent innovations to ubiquitous tools, including kitchen utensils, furniture, and lighting, each made by a diverse group of practitioners and communities. These works represent a high-functioning knowledge system where artistry, labor, and skill converge. Within this framework, the mind and body are inseparable, expressing a deliberate thought process that transforms raw matter into functional form. The exhibition highlights a profound honesty driven by the intersection of material and technique. This is evidenced through diverse technical negotiations such as the sculptural manipulation of katlamara bamboo, the hand-carved translucency of makrana marble, or the systematic reuse of recycled plastics and yarn waste. Parallel to these formal systems is the presence of jugaad, a spontaneous design born of necessity. Whether utilizing materials with a deep history in the landscape or repurposing industrial by-products, these diverse acts of making converge in innovative contemporary forms. Collectively, they assert a design language rooted in a shared culture of ingenuity and resource-fullness. Two formal modes of production further distinguish these works. One involves a collaborative system of knowledge transfer where designers and practitioners engage in a porous exchange of skill, acting as a collective creative force. Another centres on the Artisan-Designer, a practitioner embodying generations of inherited artistic and technical mastery to conceptualize and execute work as a singular arc of vision. Each manifestation asserts a distinct presence against a global backdrop of homogenization. Design is presented here as a living practice that occupies both the modern and the traditional simultaneously. https://www.rashmivarma.com/costumes-1 daily 0.75 2026-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52378864e4b04e9390b69568/1775484988805-4742MM8AJ38Q6SUOR0MY/Screenshot%2B2026-04-05%2Bat%2B8.08.14%25E2%2580%25AFPM.png Costumes - Winged, 2024 Sonia St-Michel Creations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52378864e4b04e9390b69568/1775493245177-CIEU7V8SWY2POTXCJFNC/FunnyBoy1web.jpeg Costumes - Co-Costume Designer, 2020 Directed by Deepa Mehta, Hamilton-Mehta Productions https://www.rashmivarma.com/exhibitions-1 daily 0.75 2026-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52378864e4b04e9390b69568/18cc7f3c-53e3-442c-9eba-c70a48e64a68/rashmi%2Bvarma%2Bembroidery%2Bparlor.jpg Exhibitions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52378864e4b04e9390b69568/1548350254660-6XGTH8WO3IXRAH723CH0/rashmi+varma+fabric+of+india+va.jpg Exhibitions - Bihar Indigo Sari Dress The Fabric of India, V&A Museum, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52378864e4b04e9390b69568/18cc7f3c-53e3-442c-9eba-c70a48e64a68/rashmi%2Bvarma%2Bembroidery%2Bparlor.jpg Exhibitions - Miss Rashmi's Embroidery Parlour Dyed Roots: The Emergence of New Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52378864e4b04e9390b69568/1776381886041-4K7J12WONIWXIJC2B0Y7/love%25252Bhate%25252B1.jpg Exhibitions - Collection 2006-07 LOVE/HATE: New Crowned Glory G.T.A., Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, 2007 Suitcases Lights by Bruno Billio https://www.rashmivarma.com/publications-1 daily 0.75 2026-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52378864e4b04e9390b69568/1628518682892-PM1CXII4Z7T001E8KP3N/8a%2Clarge.1486822253.jpg Publications https://www.rashmivarma.com/about daily 0.75 2026-04-17 https://www.rashmivarma.com/about-1 daily 0.75 2026-04-10