A New Narrative

Vaishali Shadangule's dedication to bring Indian workmanship to the forefront of an emerging global conversation remains steadfastly committed

- MEHERNAAZ DHONDY

“India is a repository of workmanship skills that are unique to our country, that have vanished from other parts of the world. Despite having heavily relied on our skilled artisans for decades, it's only now that some globally acclaimed brands have started recognising this."

While the movement to change this narrative in India's favour seems to come a long way in the past few seasons, what's even more exciting is that a league of India's most stupendous design talent is here to script it for themselves rather than wait for the global fashion community to tune it. Enter Vaishali Shadangule, who'd like to set the record straight right for the start, "I'd like to move away from the word craft; I'd rather talk about luxury workmanship heritage and the effort put in to make it become such."