Chinar Farooqui - INDIA

Artist, textile designer and the founder of 'Injiri,' meaning "real India," Chinar Farooqui, in her work, seeks, as much to portray a love of textiles, as to carefully preserve India's craft traditions.

Inspired by her mother to pursue textiles at a young age, immediately after graduating from NID in textile design, she travelled extensively through Rajasthan and Gujarat.

 Her travels, serving as personal studies into peoples’ lifestyles across different parts of the world, would later be incorporated into the foundational work that eventually became Inijri.

To her mind Injiri, as a project, is meant to be the very embodiment of the beauty found within India's long textile design heritage. To achieve it by reinterpreting those classic forms often lost with India's ever-shifting tides in socio-economics and popular culture. Consequently her design language, then necessitated a coexistence of both old and new India. One Guided under Injiri’s philosophy.

Dedicated to self-reinvention even mid-process, unbound by a seasonal model, fused with its host community and relentlessly committed to longevity.

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