May, 28th, 2014

NEW DELHI | What Keeps Indian Culture Alive?
Tarun Tahiliani asks Sadhguru

Fashion designer Tarun Tahiliani asks Sadhguru why Indians seem to prefer Western culture and attitudes to India’s own intrinsic values and culture. Sadhguru looks at the fundamental ethos and thread that binds Indian culture together, and explain how it is only the spiritual process that has kept Indian culture alive, despite centuries of persecution during the British Raj.

Yogi, mystic and visionary, Sadhguru is a spiritual master with a difference. An arresting blend of profundity and pragmatism, his life and work serves as a reminder that yoga is a contemporary science, vitally relevant to our times.

Tarun Tahiliani founded his design studio in 1990. His distinctive signature has since evolved as a fusion of textile detail, refined luxury, and meticulous tailoring. The Tarun Tahiliani Design Studio creates couture, diffusion and prêt-a-porter which are Indian in their sensibility, yet international in their appeal. The rich heritage of the subcontinent is reinvented as contemporary high fashion through the genius of Indian craftsmanship and the finest textiles; along with Italian pattern cutting and construction and new technologies such as digital textile printing. His unique combination of his torical opulence and contemporary chic also lend themselves to couture.

Tahiliani who has a degree in Business Management from the Whar ton School of Business, opened India’s first multi designer boutique, Ensemble. In 1991 he received an associate degree from the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York. He is the first Indian designer to be invited to showcase at the Milan Fashion Week.

The Tarun Tahiliani br and has set out to create the ultimate “India Modern”: a br and with a view in the present moment, but, ultimately much steeped in the Indian traditions of draped form and the techniques that millions of Indian h ands imbibe with love. Combined with western notions of cut, construct and finish but using Indian heritage and craftsmanship.

“All that we were and more”