![]() The clothing too is created with regeneratively-grown fibers, no waste practices, ancestral craft, and is even inspired by the very same subtle, spontaneous joy and unmanicured magic of daily rituals we captured here. With a ‘balti bath,’ you take and use exactly what is needed, and no more. Beneath the backwaters, beyond a first glance, mother nature is sending signals.īehind the images are efforts to find tender equilibrium with visiting our motherland: walking to the market for some fresh vegetables before supper, learning to climb a coconut tree for the first time, slicing fruits with a new auntie at the homestay before breakfast, switching on the water heater, and taking a bucket bath like the locals do and our ancestors did. In some canals, algae protects the entire ecosystem by growing so thick and webbed that the boats are blocked from entering. Beneath the peacefulness of the backwaters is petrol dumping and pollution from houseboat tours, depleting fish and water oxygen levels, contaminating locals’ water supply, stimulating algal blooms, and in turn, fracturing local economies dependent on healthy waterways and fish. Over the past few years, houseboat tours have placed immense strain on the waterways of Alleppey, Kerala. ![]() Styled by Sheena Sood, Chandni Amira Dhanoa.Creative Direction by Sheena Sood, Chandni Amira.Text by Chandni Amira Dhanoa, Nancy Uddin, Sheena Sood.Shot on 35mm film, this series confronts a male and white supremacist gaze, and lends nourishment, comfort, and reprieve without harming or objectifying local ecologies or communities. How often do tourists consider the noise they bring to their destinations? These photos evoke stories of the legacies of tourism resulting in raw nuance, both beauty and strained ecologies. The Keralan coast and backwaters are a frequent retreat for tourists searching for stillness, tranquility, yoga, and Ayurveda. Many had feared Telfar would resort to the same methods following its initial success, but TELFAR LIVE is merely a continuation of the brands’ steadfast commitment to keeping luxury accessible to its original audience.Īdorned with traditionally-made pieces from abacaxi’s SS23 collection, we slipped on toe shoes and explored the implications of tourism on the intertwined ecologies and economy of only one of India’s 28 vastly different states: Kerala. From FUBU and Pharell’s Billionaire Boys Club to the late Virgil Abloh’s Off White and Kanye West’s Yeezy, Black designers and Black-owned brands have often historically relied on models of mass hype, individual celebrity, and inaccessible pricing to sustain excitement around their products that could rival recognizable status-symbol luxury brands. With this price model, Telfar is thoroughly dismissing the capitalist-realist conventions that have confined the brand’s peers and predecessors. That’s not cool.” As simple as it sounds, this strategy runs counter to the dominant ethos of business and branding in fashion while still ensuring economic growth. ![]() If we can’t make as many, the clothes will stay expensive. “If less cool people can afford them, we can’t make as many. “If we price our clothes according to how cool they are less cool people can afford them,” the brand explained. Miracle is a teardrop aviator featuring tie-dye inspired gradient lenses and custom temple cores engraved with the Dead’s iconicħ69 Santee St.TELFAR LIVE is just as much a practical business decision as it is a statement. One of our favorite and boldest frames redesigned with 13-point lightning bolts at each frame end and Steal Your Face skull We teamed up with Grateful Dead to release a second collection of sunglasses featuring two frames inspired by the band's timeless
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