Side by Side ...

side by side, on my mind, through the night, i see you my sister....my SOUL sister..
through the blind white night...

blind...but i see!

aashayein...

once upon a time....

Our first mood board is certainly evidence to what inspired us to create a very soulful collection...though its connotations differ today....

Ateev…
“ It is more like a story, the more you know the more it grows..... I started off being most inspired by the unadorned simplicity of the three sphere-like shapes. They defined a persona for my ideas. And as the ideas have metamorphosed into products, the personality of the collection has evolved with them. The fulfilling part is that I feel the “soul” of the collection resonate through each design. I understand it better now because the more I have grown with it, the more I have known it.”

Karan…  
“I make you- "see to believe, to believe to dream and to dream to achieve.  This is what she says to me, when i look at her, when i try to understand and look beyond the mask, my lady in blue.  This picture has so much of charter and emotion just like our collection.Something so strong, mysterious, yet clear of thoughts.. that’s where I get my connection- 'my connection to emotional design'”

Aeiman…
“I believe that for me, the original 'soul' of the collection has also evolved with time.....stronger and Unambiguous...! The hazy black and white image talks about my present state of mind!... “dilemma” of what I started of with, what it is today, and what value is it going to add... the apparent buildings represent "clarity" of what leads me, to making a dream come true.....whereas the darkened areas are the parts of me that I consciously left behind on this journey...”

That's the coolest thing about a mood board...it never ceases to enthuse you…

Silver lining...

"Amazing grace! How sweet the sound

That saved a wretch like me!

I once was lost, but now am found,

Was blind, but now I see....a silver lining on the cloud..."

north star

              'Every traveller needs a sign, a guiding star to reveal destiny’s course

          Every Journey needs direction, more than a destination to give it meaning'

 


We were introduced as teacher and students. She recognized us before we did and helped us see the world around us and the designer within. Inspiring us not only to create from the soul but to live soulfully. I feel success is when you can put a part of yourself, a dream, out there and live it. We learned that from Nazneen.

We were and continue to be sustained by one piece of immeasurable good fortune while being around Naz.  The biggest lesson taught by her is to celebrate self and the rest would follow!

She is a friend, a woman of immense wisdom with a gentle, unbending determination...............