Doppelgänger: unisex styles
We’re all for unisex styles, especially if it means bidding buh-bye to heaving wardrobes and treading the path to sustainability. There’s merit in owning a few key pieces that can…
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A clean slate
Rules are made to be broken, and limiting white to summer is one we’ve gladly kicked to the kerb. Our homes and wardrobes are whitewashed in the best possible way.…
Fabrics of Nicobar: Home
Fabrics for every season, and every corner of the globe. From mood board to shop floor, our design process is quite a thing. It is involved, extensive, and quite rigorous.…
The all-white Nico dress
People throw the term ‘iconic’ around pretty loosely, but if there ever was an in-house style we think is destined for that tag, it’s our Nico dress. With its classic…
Fabrics of Nicobar: Denim
The word denim is derived from “serge de Nimes”, a reference to the French city of Nimes, where it is said to have originated. Denim became popular in the 1800s,…
Fabrics of Nico: Travel
Design is as much about the unseen as the seen. Often considered a surface attribute, with all focus on the finished product, what differentiates a design object from an ordinary…
Summer white
Yes, we know, ‘white in summer’ isn’t exactly path breaking stuff, but here on the subcontinent, when summer hits, the sun’s out and the temperature’s soaring, it’s pretty much essential,…
A meditation on movement at Seema Sondhi’s yoga studio
Tucked into Delhi’s Hauz Khas you’ll find the Seema Sondhi yoga studio. A homey place, with a devoted following, there’s nothing quite like it in the capital. You’ll find a…
At Home With: Jean Francois Lesage
From beach havens and secret countryside haunts to city apartments that transport you somewhere else entirely, At Home With journeys to the homes of some of the most inspiring minds…
Essential pockets
Pockets. We cannot live without them. Obvious, you might say, but we’re not talking any pockets, we mean pockets for women, an almost revolutionary addition to women’s garments during the…