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15th November 2018

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Oorja Makkad

Blogger | Designer
Millennial Sareephile
Indian Textile Aficionado

Musing on fashion, handicraft, sustainability narratives, cruelty-free beauty and eclectically homegrown design. Find me on Instagram @oorja.revivestyle.

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creamy peach bellini 🍑 wearing a sustainable dr creamy peach bellini 🍑 wearing a sustainable dress from a gorgeous, gorgeous conscious label, dyed with annatto seeds - they give an orange-red hue - and made of milk protein fabric 🍸 The fabric feels like a softer, silkier, more buttery version of what viscose-rayon feels like, if you're wondering about this innovative textile. It's quite aptly called 'Flame of the Forest Dress.' Thank you for the beautiful gift, and for all the natural, mindful designs you put out into the universe with your work @joinalternative 🌱
Slots for collaborations on Revive.Style are full Slots for collaborations on Revive.Style are full for this month and the next 🌸 Starting today until 28th February, we will step back for a bit from taking on anything new that hasn't already been confirmed before, and focus on all the beautiful work we're already doing with sustainable, homegrown, delight-worthy entrepreneurs and small businesses. You are always welcome to write to us at revivestyleblog@gmail.com for anything you'd like to do that goes live March and onwards! Deeply appreciate email enquiries over DM because it's very easy to miss messages on Instagram. Thank you for making it so beautiful and fun for us to do what we love to do 🤍
felt called to share a few precious playlists that felt called to share a few precious playlists that basically run my life these days 🌓
saree, silver, corset, garter: an ambitious crosso saree, silver, corset, garter: an ambitious crossover with a hand-me-down vintage drape, thrifted corset, henna-drawn garter to make it feel more 'mine' with the touches of sustainability and Indian-ness that I truly vibe with. My favourite part was being frosted in quintessentially Indian clusters of ghungroos from @teejhindia 🫐 I first became absolutely fascinated with clusters as a form when I studied 'rasas' i,e the moods or aesthetic flavours in Indian art, music and poetry. The rasamanjari, translating to 'bouquet of rasas' referred to a flower, a blooming cluster of the 9 rasas or sentiments on which traditional Indian artistic expression was based. The rajarasa, the king of the rasas, the peak of human experiences (shringa - peak) was the shringara rasa - the erotic sentiment centered around romance, pleasure, desire, longing, and belonging. In the Indian tradition, this life-giving, life-creating, transcendent mood or state of mind was the supreme human emotion and inspiration for art ✨ Isn't it what we truly live for, love and pleasure? Strip away all our little human games and distractions - our meanderings in search of 'artha' and 'dharma,' - and we may still find that our heart beats with the pure, vital, vibrant life force energy that comes from 'kama' 🖤 I fall in love frequently and often with objects representing clusters as a design form - in nature, in textiles, in art, in adornments. Here, they come through in bandhini's dots and blooming ghungroos. These riches in clusters are a cherished gift from @teejhindia - a stack of bracelets, a haath phool and a connected triad ring. I love that their website offered an option to purchase stacks of layered bracelets, styled to go well together and apart. Some long-buried maximalist tendencies were brought out when I first saw these clusters, leading to this mood, slit saree and all. And just like that, this escapist drape experiment outfit was born 🌚
at this point if an introverted hot goth man offer at this point if an introverted hot goth man offers me pomegranates I'll just eat 'em, tyvm 🌸
haven't found a good garter in so long I decided t haven't found a good garter in so long I decided to take matters into my own hands 🦋🖤 #henna
a little (a lot) maharani escapism never hurt nobo a little (a lot) maharani escapism never hurt nobody in times like these 🌸
Lohri di lakh lakh vadhaiyan 🖤✨ kota, gota a Lohri di lakh lakh vadhaiyan 🖤✨ kota, gota and kundan today 🦋 dupatta: handloom silk kota doria hand embroidered with gota, both traditional crafts of Rajasthan, @fabindiaofficial jewellery: @aarna.store and @jaypore black suit set: @bunaai
I take my notebooks very seriously 📚 1, upcyc I take my notebooks very seriously 📚 1, upcycled from beautifully browned index pages of a decade old copy of Jane Eyre. It's the notebook to write memorable excerpts and notes in from books that were read for pleasure. 2, a handmade Sanganeri gift wrapping recycled paper, for Indian art research notes. 3, a layered cover recycled from lingerie texture printouts and a flowery doodle I made on packaging waste, for a notebook that holds my Lingerie Design course notes. Sometimes you just have to jazz up your sweet little Sundaram notebooks for ✨vibes✨ and feel good about doing it sustainably from materials you already have. Pretty notebooks are such a potent source of serotonin to me, my favourite among the little luxuries and little joys of life that everyone deserves to reward themselves with 🤍 Coming up with a weirdly specific themed cover from stuff lying around the house for each of my weirdly specific notebooks felt even more rewarding than the most expensive stationery I've bought 🌝 Guess taking out that one hour to do this was like an artist date with my inner child 🌸
stay home too long and they'll grow from you 🌼 stay home too long and they'll grow from you 🌼 it's the perfect weather for Kashmiri sozni, baby's breath and the soft rustle of vintage heirloom silk 🫐 Saree: Mother's, older than me. Should tag this for @afsarnama's lovely #TheEmbroideryEdit and it checks off for #ReviveStyleWraps #KashmirCraftsWithReviveStyle too yay 🌚 We productive today
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it's cold in Bombay and i'm in a mood 🌸🌷💐 it's cold in Bombay and i'm in a mood 🌸🌷💐
we should bring back that *quick glance in the lil we should bring back that *quick glance in the lil mirror, snap it shut and proceed to kill someone* energy 🪞
not to be too persephone on main but 🌸 not to be too persephone on main but 🌸
@thedarkglamfashionista and I are being extra with @thedarkglamfashionista and I are being extra with this vibe like we deserve 🌚🖤
In Stock: On the Shop, a gorgeous naturally dyed b In Stock: On the Shop, a gorgeous naturally dyed black kota doria 🖤 Link in bio
pov: it's 2022 & i'm the villain now 🌚 (villai pov: it's 2022 & i'm the villain now 🌚 (villain wears thrifted @titlqe corsets and a protection black tourmaline yes)
A flaming, vibrant Lohri & Sankranti vibe, this sa A flaming, vibrant Lohri & Sankranti vibe, this saree 🖤 On the Shop, link in bio ✨
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