Chanakya has celebrated forty years of embroidery with three simultaneous presentations across Mumbai, an anniversary staged as a tribute to the hands behind the thread.
Chiuri now brings that dialogue to her role at Fendi, carrying the Mumbai craft partnership into a new house lexicon.
The work treats India not as a source of labour to be commissioned, but as a territory of imagination whose textile traditions shape the garment’s very conception.
Karishma Swali and Maria Grazia Chiuri, who have partnered for years across couture, unveiled an installation titled En Route that reframes artisans as co-authors rather than anonymous executants.
The anniversary affirms that the needle remains the most profound motor of fashion, and that its true genius lies beyond the designer’s hand.
From a single atelier grew a global creative force, one that has preserved and reimagined embroidery techniques for houses across Paris and beyond.
