Lisa Hall, Embracing Indian Craft
WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press
English - October 17, 2017 10:23 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsFashion & Beauty Arts Design fashion sustainability sustainable fashion ethical fashion clare press vogue business of fashion design climate designers Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The fashion business is based on many hands, and on women’s labour. 80 % of garment workers are women. So while fashion is a giant global industry with extremely sophisticated marketing behind it, at the end of the day, it’s built on a woman sitting sewing in a room somewhere. And women sewing is wonderful. Some of fashion’s most inviting stories about that. Like today’s…
After years as a dressmaker and sewer of costumes for film & TV in Sydney, Lisa Hall made a radical change and moved to hot, dry, dusty Bhuj, a small city in the Kutch district of Gujurat, in northwest India. It’s way off the obvious tourist track, except during flamingo season, when thousands of pink birds descend on the lagoons of the nearby Great Rann salt marsh.
Lisa made the trip with her sewing machine and her rescue cats in tow - she couldn’t leave Sydney without her furry family. What drew her there? What’s it like to live in Bhuj when you don’t speak the language? What’s all this got to do with fashion?
it was the rich tradition of women’s craft that drew Lisa to India. Her Madame Hall label, which debuted at Lakme fashion week in Mumbai in February, uses traditional local textiles and artisan embroideries but in non-traditional, quirky and unexpected ways.
From her tiny workroom, she makes makes one of a kind clothes, which she sells on Etsy, using traditional Ajrakh block printed cotton, and tribal embroideries.
Check out the shownotes here
Music is by Montaigne http://www.montaignemusic.com.au/
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Love,
Clare x
The fashion business is based on many hands, and on women’s labour. 80 % of garment workers are women. So while fashion is a giant global industry with extremely sophisticated marketing behind it, at the end of the day, it’s built on a woman sitting sewing in a room somewhere. And women sewing is wonderful. Some of fashion’s most inviting stories about that. Like today’s…
After years as a dressmaker and sewer of costumes for film & TV in Sydney, Lisa Hall made a radical change and moved to hot, dry, dusty Bhuj, a small city in the Kutch district of Gujurat, in northwest India. It’s way off the obvious tourist track, except during flamingo season, when thousands of pink birds descend on the lagoons of the nearby Great Rann salt marsh.
Lisa made the trip with her sewing machine and her rescue cats in tow - she couldn’t leave Sydney without her furry family. What drew her there? What’s it like to live in Bhuj when you don’t speak the language? What’s all this got to do with fashion?
it was the rich tradition of women’s craft that drew Lisa to India. Her Madame Hall label, which debuted at Lakme fashion week in Mumbai in February, uses traditional local textiles and artisan embroideries but in non-traditional, quirky and unexpected ways.
From her tiny workroom, she makes makes one of a kind clothes, which she sells on Etsy, using traditional Ajrakh block printed cotton, and tribal embroideries.
Check out the shownotes here
Music is by Montaigne http://www.montaignemusic.com.au/
Enjoying the show? Please leave a review in iTunes. It helps other people find us.
Oh, and we have a new Patreon page. Hop on over to support the show.
Love,
Clare x