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16th September 2016

After four hours of Cleopatra (1963), a mmust watch for all it’s Greco-Egyptian splendour, COSTUMES. And fierce eyeliner game.

Bardot flounce with a hint of rouge

Drama & Emerald

Cleopatra-esque, bardot with a hint of rouge and some dramatic emerald

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Oorja Makkad

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

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what I actually look like these days (while incess

what I actually look like these days (while incessantly posting throwbacks) 😂 #lockdown2020

We have all been talking about supporting small an

We have all been talking about supporting small and online businesses - I've talked of supporting my own Revive.Style storefront in this time to support artisans.

I want to clarify a very important aspect! All the products curated on Revive.Style are never taken from artisans on credit i.e a system where they are paid their rightful share only if and when a customer buys a product. Artisans are always paid in full for their quoted price at the point of curation. Whatever sales are made now will enable us to recover capital which will be used to generate newer projects for us and them, provide more business and keep wheels turning for the next lot and next, in this time of uncertainty and suspension.
The rightful dues of a craft cluster for providing these beautiful textiles in the first place will always be paid in full first thing, from my end, long before I even introduce the sarees to my audience! So when I say support artisans by buying from the Shop, I never mean "I'll only pay them if you buy this" - I mean, you can help the slow fashion community keep the abundance flowing ✨
For every creator, whether myself, an artisan, or whoever else, financially supportive validation of creative efforts is the best kind there is, isn't it? It gives us the ability to wake up and keep choosing - every single day - a life of creating, a life of keeping ancient creative traditions alive, a life of fulfilling our destiny. Instead of the compulsion to be pushed into mainstream left-brain fields. I believe designers, artists, creators, bloggers, curators, makers of all kinds and gatekeepers of aesthetic heritage are as essential for culture, society and humanity itself to thrive as all the bankers, economists, corporates, engineers and so on!

life, like art, doesn't always have to be busy to

life, like art, doesn't always have to be busy to be satisfying 🌼 I hope you take some time out to do absolutely nothing but hear the birds chirp in a comfortable spot today 🌿

When the uncertainty of this pandemic first set in

When the uncertainty of this pandemic first set in, all shop related posts and stories ceased, it felt awkward to expect customers to prioritise anything else over essentials, safety and physical well being. Now that we're in lockdown, we're all more aware than ever and we all have a plan to abide by - stay in. Here's a reminder that if you can, and wish to, support small slow fashion businesses; you'll be supporting an entire network of independently operating karigars, tailors, artisans and so many more in the chain whose regular income may be hit due to suspension of courier movement. Having orders flowing in will enable us all to further keep the wheels turning and provide more business in turn to the artisan clusters that form our spine. Revive.Style's online shop is accepting orders as usual for the very last few items we still have in stock, and they'll be sent out first thing when the lockdown is lifted 🌚✨ it's exciting to anticipate that patrons that will still buy from the Shop will enable more orders being placed in craft clusters around the country. Right now, among a few other to-be-launched lines, I'm working virtually and remotely on two beautiful projects which involve the efforts two self-help groups - one in Delhi and one in Mumbai - that empower female karigars and I can't wait to begin their execution when things are clear. If you've had your eye on something curated on revive.style/shop, this your sign to go ahead! .
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THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR THE LOVE AND SUPPORT ❤️

sarees in mountains and beaches 🌴🏔️

sarees in mountains and beaches 🌴🏔️

In 21 days I'll grow so accustomed to silence, pea

In 21 days I'll grow so accustomed to silence, peace and all the birds chirping as I go about my life at home, I'm sure I'm going to find myself extra sensitive and antsy about the roaring traffic noise I'd been deadened to all these years. I keep thinking of how much we are going to change as people, as a world, in so many little ways after this all goes away 🌼

#SashikoTutorial: A sashiko-ed heart | Tonight I'l

#SashikoTutorial: A sashiko-ed heart | Tonight I'll be posting a slow and chilled out Sashiko stitch-along video tutorial. Watch it with your tea/wine/candles/music by your side and sewing kit in hand. It'll be just like we're doing this together in quarantine 🍷It's a date! By the time the coronavirus rides out, I intend to fill this shirt up with these beautiful stitches. Tonight is the first step, a guide to making the texture that you see on my 💙 in this shirt. I'm excited, its Revive.Style's first ever video stitch along guide. I hope this brings you 25 minutes of bliss, peace and escape during this pandemic!

just realized I never shared last month's birthday

just realized I never shared last month's birthday pictures, a surprise open bus ride through south bombay's prettiest heritage laden lanes ❤️🍷such a fun night, I look almost hysterical. I'm so grateful to everyone who came along and made my leap year birthday so special, and @vaidehikenia and @prashant.nayar you were missed!

planning a sashiko denim mending video tutorial 🍷🧵✂️

I wish I was quarantined here, I'd make friends wi

I wish I was quarantined here, I'd make friends with the ghost that haunts the Savoy and read Victorian classics in the bar all day and night 🏰🏔️

movies to watch all for aesthetics, aesthetics, ae

movies to watch all for aesthetics, aesthetics, aesthetics ✨ here's a mini-list of visually delightful, iconically fashionable movies; an escape to beauty in a time as dreary as now. Pulled in parts from the list I gave my fashion students to analyse over their "corona vacation" as homework, I'm extra happy to include the 18+ choices here which I couldn't there 😂 .
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Cleopatra. Yes, I know its a four hour movie but the costumes, the set design and the jewellery make it four hours of pure 🥵😍
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Anything Audrey Hepburn. Breakfast at Tiffany's is my fav hands down, Charade is delightful, and I reallyyy wanna watch Funny Face + Roman Holiday too!
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The Great Gatsby. Oh my. That movie is a whole journey, it's magical. .
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Bonnie & Clyde (1967)
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Atonement (Keira Knightley) .
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Ocean's Eight, I needn't say why. It's got Rihanna, it's got the Met Gala.
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Moulin Rouge (Nicole Kidman), for all that burlesque decadence.
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Anna Karenina (2012) I'd watch it for those gowns, and for how delicious Vronsky is. .
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Mona Lisa Smile (2003) - Julia Roberts, this is beautifully 50s and has a rebellious, non-conformist art teacher at an uppity 'finishing school,' what a treat. .
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Grace of Monaco (Nicole Kidman)
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Black Swan 🖤😍 What would you add to this, a movie/show you found dreamily fashionable? Add in comments below so I can watch them too! ✨

tie dyed sunshine and greens 🌿

tie dyed sunshine and greens 🌿

@jessillustrator's technique. So satisfying, I lov

@jessillustrator's technique. So satisfying, I love seeing ink bloom 🖤 can we prepone #inktober to rn please

it's all in the gimmicks 😋🙃

it's all in the gimmicks 😋🙃

techniques from @jessillustrator's global art clas

techniques from @jessillustrator's global art class last night ✨ so much love! The colours are sort of inspired by an artwork of Monet, and sort of going with the flow. This was a beautiful session, it was lovely to be creating with so many people around the world getting together virtually. The class is still on her stories, if you want to take it! #quarantinewithjess. I super miss fashion illustration classes in design school from my amazingly talented and inspiring teacher @rash.sathe mam, I still think of all your beautiful demonstrations and delicate strokes whenever I paint! Illustration class was my happy time in college 🎨

instead of focusing on chasing capital, what if we

instead of focusing on chasing capital, what if we shifted focus to chasing aesthetics, beauty, delight and all the good-feeling joys found in the design process? capital will always be a by-product of being led by your creative hunger, a hunger that can only be nourished by making time for play, cooking, writing, ramblings, walks, reading, painting, journalling, deep inner work, accepting yourself, validating yourself, creating your own daily routines no matter how bizarre, making bad art anyway, taking the first step anyway - thoughts for creative businesses 🌼🖤

posting this in torn hotpants while googling canne

Working on a very exciting development for Revive.

Working on a very exciting development for Revive.Style that I'll reveal soon 🖤 In case you're shopping for the summer in your self-isolation, only three of these butter soft, naturally dyed, dreamy Ajrakh muls are left in stock. They're all named 'tinkling' because the pallu has a row of silver ghungroos. Link in bio! I've been on a no spend for apparel since February so yaaay I'm also going to make one or two well deserved handcrafted purchases while I stay in and lay low 🍷

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