Divyam Mehta’s new collection features skirts inspired by South-Indian mundus

Delhi-based clothier Divyam Mehta’s new assortment Nonetheless Waters
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With deliberate, calculated precision, Delhi-based clothier Divyam Mehta defines the inspiration behind his newly launched summer time assortment Nonetheless Waters. He borrows the gathering’s design language from South Asian modern artwork, tribal rugs and nautical stripes, however manipulates its grammar to create mundu skirts, outsized jackets paired with attire, gilets, pyjama trousers, tops and layered tunics. “For the moodboard,” he explains, “we have been primarily taking a look at trendy artwork from Cambodia, Indonesia and South India, however these inspirations have been manipulated and edited to create one thing summary, easy, daring and modern. Take, for instance, South-Indian mundus. We made variations of that for our skirts, teaming them with tops”.

Delhi-based clothier Divyam Mehta 
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Design diary

Detailing on how this experimentation extends to chiffon gilets and toys with conventional drapes or crafts, Divyam, who launched his first menswear line in 2009 and his first girls’s assortment on the Wills India Style Week in 2010, navigates the modern-meets-traditional territory by his creations. With the kantha sew as a trusted companion, Divyam’s muse for Nonetheless Waters is the tempo, poise and peace of quaint, small cities throughout South Asia. The gathering, remodeled six months (from September 2024 to February 2025), was conceived in Kerala. “I visited South India final yr for rejuvenation, ayurveda, and was enamoured by the fantastic thing about the States. We, the truth is, shot the marketing campaign at Fort Kochi as a result of it has that quintessential attraction of a small city with cobbled streets, stunning backwaters,” shares Divyam.

The gathering’s marketing campaign was shot at Fort Kochi 
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Crafting drapes 

The edit champions textiles like silks (mulberry silk) from South India; linen, cotton and matka silk from West Bengal; and silk blends from Gujarat. Divyam’s model has tied up with a number of crafts clusters throughout India. The label has a manufacturing-unit-cum-studio comprising a workforce of nealy 100 craftspersons, tailors and managers in Noida, Delhi, and an outlet within the metropolis’s Defence Colony. “Our weaves and kantha work is from Phulia in West Bengal. We additionally work with some craft clusters in Kutch and Kumaon division in Uttrakhand from the place we procure silk and cotton weaves,” he shares. Divyam has additionally used Kerala’s cotton handloom in his new assortment. “We developed some textiles in collaboration with social impression organisation Save The Loom that’s been working with weavers in Kerala to revive and reform the handloom sector. Discovering new idioms to conventional textiles is difficult and a course of we love as a model,” he provides.

The gathering’s color palette has a splash of pink sand, dull-black coal, ivory and sand
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In regards to the colors of Nonetheless Waters, one would think about them to share some proximity with the water ingredient; maybe, tones of blue. However Divyam surprises with a splash of pink sand, dull-black coal, ivory, and sand. The color blue comes by solely in choose denim items of the gathering, however the turmeric yellow used as an accent in most of the clothes tenders a sure edge to the edit. “Now we have additionally used ikat on this assortment; the weave is procured from Hyderabad. I, nonetheless, have all the time integrated kantha in most of my collections as a result of it provides texture and weight to the silhouette,” says Divyam.

 The color blue comes by solely in choose denim items of the gathering
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For now, Divyam is engaged on the model’s autumn-winter 2025 edit, together with a collaborative undertaking with pashmina weavers of Kashmir.

Nonetheless Waters includes 45 types and the clothes begin at ₹15,000 on divyammehta.com.