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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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@_simpat recommended hair flips yesterday and oh b @_simpat recommended hair flips yesterday and oh boy it works 😂🖤 blazer: vintage hand me down from my aunt. With mending, repairing, careful storage, all clothes - irrespective of where from - last forever! Vintage clothes are love. #LovedClothesLast jewels: @shoptarinika - there's a blog post on the website with several more stunning pieces of my taste and selection from them + ideas on how to style the same jewellery with both Indian & Western ensembles. Go to link in bio if you haven't read it already 💎 (I just wanted an excuse to post this again cos I love it, excuse my coping mechanism of narcissism hahaha)
I'm back :) Thank you to those precious souls who I'm back :) Thank you to those precious souls who took to asking my beloved friends, emailing and WhatsApping about why they couldn't find me on Instagram. To think that somebody actually notices when you're gone from this cute, ephemeral little space; it fills me with a most joyous kind of wonder and amazement. I'd never once thought it would be worthy of notice. My friend and one among the most cherished collaborators on Revive.Style - the warm, talented and lovely Kalyani of @aarna.store - told me this morning that she received several worried enquiries from people unable to find my account. I'm safe and well. Five days ago, I found myself in a place that was mentally distressed and triggered enough to decide to go on a break from viewing any and all social media. I'm glad I took this pause and absorbed much needed introspective silence, and I'm even more glad that the volume of people who tried to check in with me have inspired and fuelled me to get back to creating art for Revive.Style with inspiration and motivation aplenty. I'm beyond grateful and so touched that you noticed I was gone in a mere five days, that you've never met me and yet you thought of me and cared to ask why 🤗 I haven't been able to respond to most emails or messages, and I'm so thankful to those precious friends who took on the task of responding on my behalf. Thank you for making me feel so loved, valued and appreciated - even if just for my work - when I needed it most 🌼 I thought #ReviveStyleWraps deserved a face at some point, so here's marsala lips, handloom Kasavu from Kerala and pearl bedecked silver from @aarna.store in sumptuous crescent moons, for we're not too far away from the eid ka chaand, sending love, prosperity and good wishes to everyone about to end their fast! 🌜 Tonight's a new moon night. Here's to new beginnings, cleansing and ridding ourselves of toxic ties that don't serve us anymore, and manifesting more of the people, relationships and situations that are most aligned to showing up as our fullest, realest, most authentic selves 🌑🌑
a soft life 🌸 feat. satin, pearls and polki 🤍 necklace: gold-plated polki, freshwater pearls, the 'yuva rani' (young queen) from @aarna.store
I just posted my first Instagram Guide, listing so I just posted my first Instagram Guide, listing sources to help you with thrift shopping 🖤 Go see! In pic: one of my fav thrift scores, in a flatlay that represents exactly what I do when wearing it hahaha
today: handwoven silk wisp | handcrafted silver la today: handwoven silk wisp | handcrafted silver lattice ❤️
Can you tell what's playing out on this hand embro Can you tell what's playing out on this hand embroidered scene? 🖤 Kantha, an embroidery tradition from West Bengal, on silk is #ReviveStyleWraps choice of the day. There's so many creatures to spot on this one. Sakura blossoms in silver drip from a necklace that I find the most enchanting from everything @aarna.store I've seen so far. It has an asymmetrically beautiful, flexible branch crafted in silver that the flowers are mounted upon, which can be gently twisted to any organic curvature I desire. Little buds of pearls emerge from the vine. The sprinkling of pearls upon the blossoms is truly the cherry on the cake! Absolutely loved styling this. Everything in this picture is teeming with life 🌸
your angelic, your diabolic, your light, your touc your angelic, your diabolic, your light, your touch of darkness, your shadows, your radiance; they all deserve to be loved, so much. Loved fully, and loved well 🤍🖤 Today I posted an article on the blog that I had so much fun curating and I'm so excited to share the beauty contained in it with my readers! It touches upon the history of costume and art jewellery in fashion, it's got a sprinkling of Coco Chanel's pearls of style wisdom, my own tips on styling jewellery with Indian and western ensembles coming from too many years of being obsessed with adornment, and most importantly - an assortment of select art jewellery pieces that I curated from the collection of @shoptarinika. It's a dreamy read celebrating all things sparkly and elegantly chic, go to link in my bio and tell me your thoughts! Wearing: The Ayan Nakshatra CZ set from @shoptarinika that I wore with my kota doria saree in my recent post about vintage maharani fashion. This time around with a silk slip, and an age old hand-me-down blazer.
It's as though the same design essence manifested It's as though the same design essence manifested itself in two ways: once in a textile at the hands of a dexterous tie-dye artist, and once in a precious adornment at the hands of a careful silversmith 🥰 hand-knotted dots of bandhej meet handcrafted fleurs of ruby & pearl hued gemstones in a graceful lattice mesh of silver. These artisanal beauties look like they were meant to juxtapose upon each other, don't they? A stunning statement silver neckpiece from @aarna.store, delicate and imposing at once. I love how the construction makes it mould itself exactly to the curve of the neck 🌼 Dupatta: handcrafted bandhini on gajji silk, from @fabindiaofficial
tonight's a full supermoon 🤍🌕 and an intense tonight's a full supermoon 🤍🌕 and an intense one! An everything handcrafted and artisanal ensemble to send you serene, dreamy and peaceful vibes for April's Pink Moon Both precious silver earrings are beautiful trinkets of @aarna.store, draped in a handwoven kota doria dupatta that's further hand-embroidered with the daintiest floral butas en appliqué, and a chikankari hand-me-down kurta. I love the first one for its delicate, pearl-embellished, lightweight beauty, reminiscent of kashmiri shoulder grazing jhumkas. The second piece is more Afghan-esque and glimmers gorgeously when it catches light! Handicrafts from so many vibrant communities and creators, delicate all-white with glimmers of silver, all come together in this selenophile mood. I don't know if the moon will actually appear pink in our part of the world, but I'm excited to see her rise regardless. Are you going to be moon-gazing tonight? I'm going to withdraw into a no-tech shell for a few hours today and spend my day honouring centeredness, healing and attending a full moon meditation session ✨
gold & silver ✨🤍 I slept in late even though gold & silver ✨🤍 I slept in late even though it's a Monday, and it came to me in a dream just moments before waking up to do a #ReviveStyleWraps with these specific sarees and my two identical gold-silver cluster neckpieces! I just love when that happens - the ideas that come to us in our dreams, or in other similar altered states of mind/reality apart from normal waking consciousness. It used to happen to me a lot back in design school, so many creative breakthroughs coming through from dreaming when asleep. I've suffered from nightmares for years, and they've naturally heightened in this lockdown, so a dream that inspires art is such a welcome change 🌼 Does this happen to anyone else too? Sarees: An Ajrakh on Maheshwari Cotton Silk, purchased directly at the source in Ajrakhpur from an artisan when I'd gone for my craft research. The cotton fish saree is a beautiful weave of Bengal, sourced from @letsgocoop. Neckpieces: Both purchased from @fabindiaofficial
a few months ago, I made this loose, painterly gou a few months ago, I made this loose, painterly gouache inspired by listening to Hozier's 'Someone New' on a crazy loop for two hours (that's what I do with every song I love hahaha, the quote about life's distractions is a line from the song) Today, I went back to my sketchbook to find this and it inspired a mural on my bedside wall 🌱
adventure today 🌱 adventure today 🌱
if Persephone were bohemian 🌸 lavender, turquoi if Persephone were bohemian 🌸 lavender, turquoise, silver and summer vibes in the only place I can go out to (my rooftop haha) a statement neckpiece & earrings set in precious silver and turquoises from @aarna.store, worn with a thrift dress
a cute thrifted buy, ribbon embroidered fleurs fro a cute thrifted buy, ribbon embroidered fleurs from @thev_intage 🌷ribbon embroidery was my fav back in design school because it was so easy, quick to complete and sooo lush in result 😍
December is the best month of the year, always. Ev December is the best month of the year, always. Every season has its joys but I wish it always felt like December 🌹
Note: Post whatever tf you want to or don't want t Note: Post whatever tf you want to or don't want to, you're not obligated to perform gloom, doom and apocalypse all day everyday for others to be validated and comforted to remain there. Most days, I'm languished, hopeless and sad. I'm doom scrolling all the bad news, existential guilt, helplessness. Suddenly, someone pops up looking beautiful in a saree they dressed up in at home to feel good. Someones cooking something fancy for themselves. Someones mixing cocktails and so excited to share it with their little online world. Someones making art, or decorating their home, just because. All of these people are also sad, uncertain, depressed, helpless. You don't know that they've spent weeks feeling like they don't know who they're seeing in the mirror anymore, and that dress-up helps them feel more themselves. You don't know they have family suffering from covid at home, and their vacation throwbacks or DIY projects are a small respite from the constant terror of reality. Every single person's coping mechanism differs, and they're all allowed to take up space and show up absolutely however comforts them. I see people post happy, escapist things and it moves me to get off my phone, and go do something playful too, whatever is within my means. You don't guilt someone for wanting to share their joy. When looking at people post their non-Covid related joys - travel, clothes, activities, food, whatever - makes me feel bad about my life, depression or lack of motivation, I choose to NOT scroll and do a tech detox. I do not go telling them anything along the lines of, "Hey, you're not allowed to be happy during these times. You're insensitive for sharing that you found something to feel good about. Get in line and be noble by feeding the sad, bad vibration for us." This comes from reading @amarjyotchahal's post about how there is no right or wrong way to pandemic, a must read. Let people be. It's difficult enough already without us directing other's experiences. This is a time for showing more love and compassion towards everybody, from delivery agents to fellow humans in our online worlds. We are all allowed our full spectrum of human-ness.
if Persephone can be both the goddess of flowers, if Persephone can be both the goddess of flowers, nature and Spring as well as the Queen of the Underworld, so can we be both as dark academic and as cottagecore at once as we fancy, right? 🍓🦇
I like me a good snacc and a silver stacc 🤍🍷 I like me a good snacc and a silver stacc 🤍🍷 A Maharashtrian style thushi choker, a Rajasthani chitaai work ring, and all the pearls, kemp stones and artisanal gorgeousness sprinkled in between. Frosting a handloom linen-silk top with precious silver from @aarna.store. These are all separate pieces styled together for some layered, indian-bohemian inspo. I also just posted a Reel that shows how this layered silver stack was built 🌼 Ngl I kinda felt like @thechicmaharani while doing this, one of my most favourite silver jewellery aesthetes 🤍
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