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October 27, 2020

We did it! Malai presented at first ever virtual Lakme Fashion Week :-)
October 4, 2020

Lakme Fashion Week is coming!

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Peta certified vegan & compostable coconut leather materials from Kerala 🌴
+ some cool accessories
Circular Design Challenge Award Winner 2020

Look No. 9 White double mundu paired with a canvas

Look No. 9
White double mundu paired with a canvas crop jacket and a backpack with an original cyanotype print developed using leaves and twigs from a variety of bamboo.
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Fashion show photography courtesy of @lakmefashionwk
Product photography: @_its_me_caroline
Model : @hemangiparte
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🙏 @r.elan.official @uninindia @unep winners of the Circular Design Challenge Award 2020 @circularapparel
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#virtual #fashion #show #lakmefashionweek #circulardesignchallenge #awardwinning #collection #sustainablefashion #circularfashion #biodegradable #compostable #vegan #leather #biocomposite #material #innovation #madeinkerala #cyanotype #print #mundu #kerala #bamboo #cap #pool #india

Look No.8 Classical combo of a tee paired with mun

Look No.8
Classical combo of a tee paired with mundu cloth. In a good company of dark indigo wrist pouch, laser cut “baseball cap” and super versatile dark indigo backpack / tote with inner cyanotype print bag.
What’s not to love here? ;)
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Backstage photography courtesy of @lakmefashionwk
Product photography: @_its_me_caroline ❤️
Model : @sonalikasahay 🥥🥥
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This collection was made with support of @r.elan.official @uninindia @unep 🙏 as winners of Circular Design Challenge 🌴
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#lakmefashionweek #virtualshow #fashion #accessories #mundu #malai #biocomposite #madefrommalai #godsown #coconuts #backpack #tote #cyanotype #blue #print #sustainablefashion #circular #design #kerala #circulardesignchallenge #kerala #southindia #india #compostable #vegan #innovation #malabaricus

Look No.7 How do you like the beautiful flora of t

Look No.7
How do you like the beautiful flora of the Malabar coast immortalized on this short stitched from a “mundu” cloth?
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For the ones who are not familiar with a mundu - what is it? The mundu is a garment worn around the waist in the Indian states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, the Laccadives archipelago and in Maldives.
It is closely related to sarongs, dhotis and lungis. It is normally woven in cotton in white or cream color.
Mundu is a democratic piece of clothing - worn by men and women alike, stretching across all religions and social backgrounds.
Worn in multiple styles, lengths, colors it is inseparable part of South Indian Heritage.
It also becomes softer after years of wear and wash. Once a mundu no longer can be used as a clothing item it often finds multiple uses in people’s homes.
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@r.elan.official @uninindia @unep 🙏
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Fashion show photography courtesy of @lakmefashionwk
Product photoshoot: @_its_me_caroline
Model : @1madarsh
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#mundu #lakmefashionweek #virtualfashion #show #circulardesignchallenge #award #winners #accessories #fashion #collection #malai #madefrommalai #cap #bag #cloth #biodegradable #circular #design #compostable #vegan #material #innovation #kerala #tamilnadu #southindia #cultural #pool

Look No.6 Madder dyed organic cotton t-shirt with

Look No.6
Madder dyed organic cotton t-shirt with Malai Appliqué pair with pants made from traditional handloom mundu fabric. Accompanied by a chic handbag with braided handles and of course our take on baseball cap ;)
With this post we’d like to talk a little more about why making vegan materials is relevant.
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Many people, many food choices. Some eat everything, some are vegetarians, some pescatarians and some vegan.
What we often don’t realize is the fact that our food choices in daily life don’t influence just what is available in restaurants and grocery stores but to a huge extent also what we make products in many other industries from. Because some products of animal origin are edible yes - but most other by-products are for industrial use.
And so we ended up ingredients of animal origin in our perfumes, in our fabric softeners, in sugar and even in most of the commercially available condoms.
Why is switching to vegan products relevant today? To see that we can do without. And in most of the cases we can do just fine, if not better than with the animal derived ones. If we want to alleviate our planet from large scale meat industries we also have to alleviate our products from ingredients that depend on this very industry. And as you can see in many wonderful examples- we can do so much with plant based stuff !
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Model: @deeptigujral
Fashion show photos courtesy of @lakmefashionwk
Product photography: @_its_me_caroline
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@r.elan.official @unep 🙏
#lakmefashionweek #malai #madefrommalai #circulardesignchallenge #award #winners #material #innovation #agriculture #waste #circular #sustainablefashion #compostable #vegan #coconutkarma #mundu #kerala #india #virtual #fashionshow #pool #biocomposite #accessories

Look No. 5 #godsown Within Indian context most of

Look No. 5 #godsown
Within Indian context most of the people would thing of Kerala when we talk about the “god’s own country”
However historically many places have been described as such including England, several regions in US, New Zealand, Australia and Zimbabwe.
In all cases this phrase describes an area, region or a place supposedly favored by God.
In our opinion a place which is blessed by high concentration of coconut cultivation truly is God’s own :)
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Model : @nickypickyy
Fashion show photo courtesy of @lakmefashionwk
Product photography: @_its_me_caroline

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Thank you for this opportunity as winners of Circular Design Challenge Award @r.elan.official @unep
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#lakmefashionweek #virtualfashion #show #pool #godsown #kerala #coconut #malai #madefrommalai #material #innovation #compostable #sustainablefashion #vegan #cyanotype #original #print #mundu #cloth #bag #accessories

Look No. 4 Our entire collection is inspired by t

Look No. 4
Our entire collection is inspired by the lush vegetation found on the coast of Malabar.
Many years ago, The Malabar Coast moist deciduous forests ecoregion was a swath of tropical evergreen forest that extended along the western coast of the Deccan peninsula between the Western Ghats Mountains and the Indian Ocean. These forests were once inhabited by tigers, Asian elephants, wild dogs, sloth bear and host of hornbills.
But today very little of the natural habitat is left, the result of years of forest clearing to establish Teak plantations, human settlements and other human activities. Many of the large, space dependent species have disappeared from the region. This too is now another ecoregion on the verge of extinction.
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We wanted to capture some of the region’s rich and diverse vegetation in cyanotype or so called “sun prints”. These were developed on traditional “mundu” cloths donated for our collection.
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@r.elan.official @unep 🙏
#circulardesignchallenge award winners
Fashion show photo courtesy of @lakmefashionwk
Product photos : @_its_me_caroline
Model : @gyaltsen.chodar
#lakmefashionweek #virtualshow #fashion #circular #sustainable #award #material #innovation #malai #madefrommalai #cyanotype #print #biodiversity #malabar #westernghats #ecoregion #homage #gonecoconuts #peat #coconut #compostable #eco #vegan #keralagram #india

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