Amethyst presents Sonam Dubal's “Dance of Textiles” collection along with Jasonanshu's “Rock and Bloom” collection on July 25th to August 3rd, 2025 at the Whites Road store

Designers Sonam Dubal and Jason Cheriyan will be available for a telephone /email interaction on request. In case this interests you, please do let us know and we will be happy to coordinate.

Sonam Dubal collection Price Range: Rs.7,000/- onwards

Sonam Dubal’s Dance of Textiles collection, photo credits given below:

Photo by Ajay Shanker

Instagram @ delhiphotocompany

Models Credits-

Model 1 – Shreyasi Gopinath a Bharatanatyam dancer, model and teacher.

Model 2- Deepa Gopinath

Jasonanshu photo credits given below :

All images with Azadi & Tarun – Photographer – Lila

All Purely Garment Images – Photographer – Anshu

Please find some images in the attachment, which we hope you find useful.

We look forward to coordinating any requests you may have in this respect. You may contact me at # 9382713370 for any further assistance.

Thanks and best wishes,

Vijaya

Sanskar by Sonam Dubal

Bhanjaran (Gypsy) Dance of Textiles- TRANSEASONAL 25/26

The story of the wandering bhanjaran collecting textiles, pieces of ornamentation, embroidery and adorning color through jewelry and tattoo comes alive in this trans seasonal collection for Amethyst Chennai.

A tribute to “Gulabi the bhanjaran” and Shady Zappa, my two gypsy inspirations through the years who have deeply influenced my work.

Gulabi lives in the camps which are on the outskirts of Delhi and Shady is a Roma gypsy from Europe, who was one of my first eclectic friends to open my eyes to the wonders of travel, craft magic, dreamscape and storytelling.

Playing through colors and different weaves, this story of movement and cultural linkages has been artistically captured by Artist photographer – Ajay Shanker on renowned Dancer and Model- Shreyasi Gopinath and gorgeous style icon Deepa Gopinath.

Constructing silhouettes based on the dance of the weave, blending textiles like Eri silk, Vintage Ikats, bandhini crepe and khadi with tribal and traditional embroidery based on Mythic Bird of paradise all resonate in harmony.

Cross cultural linkages have always been my calling between craft and textile drawing out the diversity of our emotions, our rivers, our weaves and our people who have always travelled between lands (entre- tierras) much like the wandering gypsy.

Observing rituals and juxtaposing attributes through intimate craft as a tribute to their tribe, their people is where living tradition becomes real to their ethos.

“Dance too has travelled through the worlds in the gypsies”, Shady mentioned while speaking and explaining the gestures of flamenco and their nuances and resonance with our forms of dance He spoke their language which was a mix of Roma, Central Asian and Hindi.

Somewhere this story has become one’s own story of influences be it the silk route, travel experiences or abstract music capturing this wandering spirit into my own internal being, living my mixed heritage through textiles craft traditions enveloping a deeper process.

Living between worlds has made me conscious of the undercurrent of life that transcends time much like the gypsy spirit that travels the desert in search of the ocean awakening to a different life recollecting strands of one past through craft into a new future embedded deep, echoing textiles of the nomad land.

Designer’s Profile:

Sonam Dubal graduated from the National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi in 1990 (after having completed Political science Hons from St. Xaviers college Kolkatta in 1988)

He launched his signature line Sanskar in 1999 which has been avanguard experiment in revitalizing and redefining traditional Indo-Asian silhouettes with sustainable sensitivity, a guiding principle and foundation for the evolving collections that blends cultures; recreating stories from the past into the future.

It was his 2003 debut runway collection at the Lakme India Fashion Week where he combined Eri (Ahimsa) silk from Assam and Khadi cotton handloom weaves and traditional hand block prints that caught the eye of L’eclaireur, Paris. (A major trend store).

This was the beginning of Sanskar’s journey into the world. (Presenting successful Autumn- winter lines for the next twelve years between Delhi and Mumbai at the prestigious “India fashion weeks”)

Sanskar is a Twenty five years odyssey of design interpretation inspired by his Buddhist heritage and diverse background, Asian motifs, symbols and cultural studies becoming an important part of the research for every collection. These collections seek to reconcile modern influences and traditional creativity through storytelling in his embroideries and textiles.

 

In 2006, he was invited to show at the Rosemount Australian Fashion week in Melbourne. It was the same year that Dubal was named in the Top 50 Achievers in Global Mainstream Media, Fashion category, by the University of Leicester Law School, UK, followed his being awarded the Elle Global Award for fashion in 2007.

It was in 2016 Sonam Dubal was the first Indian designer to show at the Vancouver, “Eco fashion week” which was a completely new international platform. Following its success at the Sustainable slow fashion trend show “Maison Sanskar” – A textile Art and fashion gallery was set up in Vancouver by Representative Renowned Anthropologist Gail Percy.

 

The label, Sanskar by Sonam Dubal, has retailed across many multi designer stores in India and Internationally the label has also journeyed through many eclectic stores in Paris, London, New York and Tokyo Sanskar by Sonam Dubal, has held exhibitions at” The Asia Society Museum” Store in New York City from 2011 onwards to the latest being 2019.

 

Eclectic women across various walks of life have always inspired his work and have played an important role in influencing his work through the years.

 

His label Sanskar, has been endorsed by many patrons including documentary film maker Leslie Cockburn, Philanthropist and famous model Nena Thurman, Natascha Weir (wife of guitarist from Rock group “The Grateful Dead”, Bob Weir)

 

In India Film director Shonali Bose, journalists and writer Madhu Trehan and Artist Mithu Sen, Bollywood stars – Konkona Sen, Tabu, Sonam Kapoor, Manisha Koirala, Malavika Tiwari and now Vidya Balan also joins this august group, who graced his embroidered sari for biopic ‘Shakuntala Devi” in 2020.

 

However it was in 2016 and 2017 that Global icon and International Italian actress and Film star “Isabella Rossellini” – took to wearing his coats and embroidered jackets for her big Hollywood venture 10-part Hulu TV series, “Shut eye” which was a great success.

 

Around June November 2023 he was approached by” Royal Enfield” to be a part of a special craft project in collaboration with two more designers called “The Himalayan knot” in collaboration with A.N.T. (Action Northeast Trust) in Assam in Bongaigaon to design a capsule collection on Eri silk which has been an ongoing project with Royal Enfield.

 

On 29th November 2023 last year Sonam Dubal was awarded “Forces of fashion” by Vogue for his incredible contribution to the Indian Fashion Industry in Mumbai.

 

 

Last year Sanskar collaborated on a very unique project #AnantSamagam sponsored by Aalekh foundation. This was a confluence and celebration of Art, Textiles, Fashion & Music woven from the heritage of both The North East of India and Kerala.

Jasonanshu’s “Rock and Bloom” collection :

Rock & Bloom is nostalgic of a wilder era.. cocktails of color, form and proportions bring a flavor to clothing that’s quintessential Jasonanshu.

The fabrics are Handloom sourced from (Sasha) bengal.. the buttery murshidabad silk, handwoven merino wool.. the artistic sewing machine details, upcycled rock patchwork.. blooms & swirling dervish carved into teak wood blocks printed and overprinted in colors evocative of the skies.

 

They encourage you to layer the pieces with joy & abandon …make them part of your own personal Identity. Hand block printed at Sasha and Tharangini.

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