After its final 12 months’s collaboration with Japan’s iconic model Whats up Kitty, Péro, a 15-year-old Indian trend label by designer Aneeth Arora, has now teamed up with British luxurious division retailer and model Liberty London for its spring-summer capsule 2025. Titled Flowers Flower, the gathering is deeply private to Aneeth and displays her love for legacy.
Launched in Chennai on Friday, at trend boutique Collage, the edit brings collectively iconic materials from Liberty London and Péro’s rootedness and love for Indian craft and textiles.
“Courting again to 1875, there’s this old-school appeal about Liberty London’s prints. We now have been working with flowers too and Liberty London is all about these ditsy flowers. I felt that makes us an ideal match, and we determined to work with a few of their traditional prints,” Aneeth says.
Liberty London’s fantastic tana garden cotton, described as a cotton that behaves like silk, is commonly dotted with flower prints — forget-me-nots, daffodils, peonies and speedwell. “For this assortment, we’re working with the traditional Tana Garden textile that has sturdy legacy, and we didn’t need to overpower the floral prints through the use of very daring textiles. The Indian textiles we’ve used with these prints are fundamental, handwoven textiles from totally different elements of India,” she says, of the weather that make up the clothes within the whimsy assortment.
This contains Chanderi from Madhya Pradesh, mashru stripes from Gujarat, stripes and checks from Maheshwar, silks and solids from the South of India, and cotton from West Bengal, Aneeth says. It is a departure for Péro, the place the primary line usually options vivid influences like tartans.
In Péro’s signature flowy, androgynous silhouettes, the capsule has shirts, clothes, tops, jackets, skirts, pants and shorts. Liberty London’s signature floral prints are layered with embroidered beadwork, material origami, tassels, appliqué, patchwork and customized wood buttons.
Aneeth says, at coronary heart, she appears like Péro is changing into extra childlike with time. “Nothing is a restrict for us and we don’t have any inhibitions. Once we began, we have been working with a number of constraints, and, through the years, we’ve grow to be open to issues; The model as properly is evolving in such a method that nothing appears inconceivable now,” she says, including that the model’s collaborations with Whats up Kitty, the place it channelled a ‘cottagecore kawaii’, and now with Liberty London, permits it to experiment and craft with out guidelines or constraints.
“Collaboration with an iconic model like Whats up Kitty and even dreaming of working with Liberty prints now appears potential, and one thing we’re having fun with. I believe, the model has grow to be mature in the best way we cope with supplies, however it has additionally grow to be extra free when it comes to dreaming and understanding that when you dream you possibly can obtain,” says Aneeth.
Latha Madhu of Collage calls Péro an ‘enduring’ model, a phrase Aneeth says is a gorgeous description. “We do timeless clothes season by season, so sure, I relate to this. Be it Chennai or some other place on the earth, we’re constant within the form of design language of the model regardless that we experiment with numerous themes. There are classics that we preserve repeating; a few of our shapes, textiles and silhouettes are all the time a relentless,” Aneeth says.
This, Aneeth says, might be why folks come again to Péro: “I really feel that the phrase ‘enduring’ resonates, and season after season, folks resonate with what we’re providing to them, regardless of having such drastic modifications in themes.”
Flowers Flower is now out there at Collage, 6, Rutland Gate, Nungambakkam.
Printed – July 25, 2025 02:39 pm IST