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How To Make It In India took the clothing of craftspeople as a source for the contemporary wardrobe. Shirts, chore coats, blazers and trousers used linen, patchwork, embroidery and beadwork, with simpler pieces showing how the textile research could operate beyond collector garments.

The runway strengthened the brand’s argument that proximity to making produces its own knowledge of dress, placing artisan work clothes and globally legible menswear inside the same collection.