OUR STORY
The brand’s journey started with a desire to create sustainable and ethically-sourced products. Our apparel and jewelry reimagine India’s traditional fabrics and crafts in a more contemporary way. Every piece designed reflects our beliefs in the importance of consuming sensibly, buying responsibly, living mindfully, and caring for the environment.
We draw inspiration from the natural fabrics of India and the abundance of artisanry that exists in India—from the Himalayan regions to Kanyakumari and from Goa to Bengal.
An integral part of the brand is to revive long-forgotten crafts and help artisans share the intrinsic beauty of these crafts with the world.
Those of us in the sustainable fashion community know that being fashion-conscious goes beyond being fashionable and trendy. Fashion is not wearing something new every day or every season. It is about being conscious of our consumption, waste, and the footprint we leave behind.
From this emerged the brand’s core pillars:
- Being Mindful: Each of our products is created while considering its impact on our earth.
- Supporting Women: Training and employing unskilled, underprivileged women to finish and hand embroider our apparel.
- Supporting Traditional Crafts, Textiles and Artisans: Our products are intrinsically linked to India’s rich repository of crafts and textiles.
- Being Inclusive: We strive to be truly inclusive in everything we do. This means that our apparel is intended for every woman out there, irrespective of color, shape, or size.
SR by Sonali Raman is for any woman who wants to make a consciously fashionable choice without compromising price, quality, or aesthetics.
Mindfulness:
Each of our products is created while keeping in mind its impact on our earth.
- Choosing fabrics that are a blend of natural and biodegradable elements.
- Creating products out of leather and fabric that would otherwise be discarded.
- Using cloth bags to package our merchandise.
- Offering new collections at a slow pace, with limited lines for each style.
Supporting Women:
- Employing unskilled, underprivileged women who otherwise would be ‘unemployable.’
- Training them in finishing and hand embroidery is an integral part of our mission.
- Equipping them with marketable skills they can use to earn an income will offer added security to them and their families.
Supporting Traditional Crafts and Textiles:
- Our products are intrinsically linked to India’s rich repository of crafts and textiles.
- We strive to use fabrics that are hand spun and handwoven the traditional way. Of the mass-produced textiles, we consciously choose those that incorporate some natural elements and are biodegradable.
- The embellishments in our jewelry hearken back to the ancient artisanal craft of zardozi, which has been done on textiles for centuries.
- The hand embroideries in our apparel echo the simple stitches that Indian village women use in their daily lives.
Zardozi is intricate embroidery that has always been done on textiles. Using this craft on leather to make our jewelry required us to upskill our artisans to work with new material—leather. We spent several months retraining them to use their inherited skills on new materials—and the results were nothing short of stunning.
Being Inclusive:
- We strive to be truly inclusive in everything we do. This means that our apparel is meant for every single woman out there, irrespective of her color, shape, or size.
- We do not endorse form-fitting and bodycon styles that exclude women who do not conform to a certain size and are not comfortable wearing styles that promote a certain body shape.
- Our silhouettes are anti-fit yet sleek. Flared, yet fitted. Comfortable, yet fashionable. Flowing, yet draping.
SR by Sonali Raman is for any woman who wants to make a consciously fashionable choice.
PHILOSOPHY
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ARTISANRY & TEXTILES
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