Rooted in more than forty years of Chanakya’s unrivalled savoir-faire, the atelier reimagines ancestral techniques of needlework, handweaving, and embellishment through the prism of modern invention. Each garment is made-to-measure, shaped in intimate dialogue with the body, and realised through thousands of hours of embroi-dery, draping, tailoring, cutting, assembling, and finishing, entrusted to Chanakya’s highly-skilled 13th-generation master artisans.

Within this evolving lexicon, 18th-century handmade Renaissance lace is reinterpreted through contemporary needlepoint, yielding sculptural, three-dimensional forms. Floral motifs bloom in mixed media — thread, sequin, glass crystal, fire-pol-ished bead, and stone — forming exquisite jardins of handcraft. Crystal grids assemble into geometric patterns, imagined as a modern armour of embellishment. Each technique is both homage and transformation, preserving fragile lineages of making while opening them to new expressions of form and possibility.