Hand-finished, pre-stitched saris in moody silks, fluid georgettes and slow-spun cottons. Wear it like a dress — no pleating, no pinning, no pause before the evening begins.
Parnika began on a wet July evening in Borivali, with a borrowed sewing machine and a single bolt of inky silk. The brief was simple, almost stubborn — make a sari that could be slipped on the way you'd slip on a kurta, without sacrificing the fall, the grace, the slow ceremony of how it sits on the body.
Each piece is cut, draped and stitched in our small Mumbai atelier. Pleats are set by hand and held in place with hidden hooks; the pallu is pre-arranged so it lands exactly where it should. You step in, zip up, and the sari behaves.
Our fabrics are sourced slowly — from a weaver in Murshidabad who works only with mulberry silk, from a cotton mill in Madurai that still uses dyes ground on stone. We work in small, considered drops; what is in the lookbook is what is in the studio.
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