Excess 2022

Ready-to-wear · 2024

Excess 2022

A collection of easy-to-wear garments built from handwoven West Bengal fabrics — designed around their weights, quantities, and repeats.

Year

2024

Role

Design, textiles

Materials

Handwoven cotton, Jamdani, Cotton check, Block print

Collaborators

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Excess 2022

Building a collection of easy-to-wear garments using handwoven fabrics sourced from across West Bengal, India. The goal was to try permutations of fabrics — keeping in mind their weights and the quantity available — and to ensure repeats in the final collection, letting nothing go to excess.

Pages from the journal while ideating silhouettes.
Line sketches on Adobe Illustrator.
Trying out colour ways in the silhouettes. Patching fabrics wherever possible to create interesting combinations.
Carefully analyzing which fabric can act as top-weight or bottom-weight in a given silhouette.
Excess 2022 — the final lineup
Toiles developed for the sampling process.
Materials
  • Handwoven cotton
  • Jamdani
  • Cotton check
  • Block print

Palette

Colour & material

  • Indigo

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  • Madder

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  • Bottle Green

    #2E5E45

  • Ochre

    #C98A3A

  • Natural

    #E7DFCD

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