Often when we speak of craftsmanship in fashion and textile, our focus tends to remain on hand techniques: hand embroidery, adda work, hand painting, hand block printing, handloom jacquards etc… we tend to forget there is a whole other domain in textile mastery that is often ignored and not valued as much, one that perhaps […]

Dupatta kass ke, jogger charha ke, apna GENERATION bag uthaye, #NoNonsenseNighat shopped up a storm at #Daachi19 and boy-o-boy did she have a blast marking her favourite stalls! This year’s event is perhaps the most organized one so far, with a lot of new crafts, eateries and activities for children. Experiencing major FOMO? You should! Here are top 10 […]

We’ve been visually shoe gazing and for this season, stumbled upon the textile that is finding a whole lot of love with the fashion pack: the kilim. A word of Turkish origin, kilim denotes a pile-less textile produced by one of several flat-weaving techniques that have a common or closely related heritage in places like […]

From the plains of Sindh. The intricate applique work on your kameez, which you absolutely adore, is inspired from a rilli. What’s a rilli, you ask? It is a traditional bedspread made by artisans hailing from rural areas of Sindh. Many years ago, our savvy fashion designers took the intricate patterns off the bedspread and […]

Our Independence Day Social Media campaign this year had 3 facets: patriotism for our motherland, tolerance and peace towards our Indian neighbors and a celebration of the infinite source of inspiration that GENERATION draws from the heritage and crafts of the region. The first post was of our very own “Chaand Sitara”… Chaand Sitara, ghar […]