Pero by Aneeth Arora At Collage Shop India

“For fall-winter 2017, I decided to open my travel journals and re-visit all those places that I had travelled to and recorded/documented all my memories and everything that inspired me. Somehow I had forgotten the amount of joy that was enclosed in those journals. There was enough inspiration for this season and many more” says designer Aneeth Arora – Pero. Aneeth Arora - Pero further adds – “This season we have incorporated a mix of elements from China and Latin America (Peru, Mexico and Guatemala). Why such diverse places? Purely out of instinct and also because as an artist I am lucky that I have the liberty to not always be driven by logic. The more I break rules the more liberating this is. Apart from that I also felt that there were many overlaps in the clothing traditions of these places; in terms of neon accents that people in these places use to add colour to their indigo clothing. In China, the accents are added through colourful geometric embroideries, tassels and pom-poms, whereas in Latin America, it is done through bold floral embroideries. To my surprise, similar floral embroideries were also seen on the skirts of a few Chinese minorities.” Drawing inspiration from Miao people of China, gave us a chance to elaborate on our love for details, through colourful tassels, pom-poms and beaded hangings, which caught my eye, time and again during my travel. Although the inspiration might be from the minority tribes of China and indigenous people of Latin America, the fabrics and trims developed are very much of Indian origin, like all our previous seasons. The colourful stripes seen on Peruvian ponchos, have been woven in wool in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh and indigo checks and stripes are hand-woven in West Bengal. All the beaded trims, tassels and pom-poms have been hand made locally with the women of péro, who have over the seasons learnt how to interpret an inspiration and simulate it into a trim that sits beautifully within the péro sensibility.