Rhea Modi

C ONTENTS A bout

About me A girl with immense amount of love and

appreciation for traditional hand work.
Haute Couture World

Gota Patti

Rangeen Itihas

Patuta

The Exquisite Corpse

Zoya

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H C aute outure W orld

understanding couture finishes

Different types of Hand Finishings used in

couture garments.

Flat Catchstitch Finishing.

Fell Stitch Finishing.
Slip Stitch Finishing.
Blind Stitch Finishing.
DIOR 1950,
 
The dress has a beautiful empire silhouette
with high raised and double layered sweetheart
neckline. The flare is layers of organza in
different colors gathered at the waistline. It
has high low cut at the hem and the yoke is
embroidered using zardozi with floral motifs.
The fabric of he yoke goes down as well creating
a jacket like effect on the dress, which is also
embroidered with small motifs all over.
 
The fabric used for the yoke is velvet, which is
heavy in weight and keeps the garment and
organza in place.
 
The garment uses the method of boning in it to
keep the sweetheart neckline and center seam
in place. The hem in hand hemmed Embroidery options inspired by Dior.
Final design inspired by vinatge Dior. Making of ..
G P ota atti

understanding embroideries of India

Gota work ( also known as Gota Patti work,

Gota kinari work or Lappe ka kaam) is a type
of metal embroidery originated in Rajasthan,
India. The cities of Jaipur, Bikaner, Ajmer,
Udaipur and Kota are the epicenter of uniquely
styled Gota work.
 Gota Patti embroidery done by a skilled karigar.

The motif used represents the circle of life

sing leaves which are often used in gota patti
Step by step building of embroidery. embroidery.
Gota Patti explorations using unconventional Gota Patti explorations using unconventional
materials. materials.
Teaching an unskilled karigar, Priti Ojha on
how to use unconventional materials inspired Final Products made by Priti Ohja using
by gota patti, various explorations.
R angeen I thias ETHICS +
a take on sustainability
AESTHETICS =

SUSTAINABLE

FASHION

What, why, when, how, about – sustainability

Sustainability to me is using the resources
we locally have. The artisans that are
locally available and are not employed, the
problem today is that everything has become
technology related, all garments are stitched
on machines, and embroideries are done on the
machine. Here the local artisans of India who My collection is named Rangeen Itihas
have tremendous skills of embroidering with (colorful history), the name says it all, the
the hands have lost their jobs, they don’t have garments are inspired from the historical
a source of income and are thus becoming rare, figures of India, the colors are inspired from
and they have started doing menial jobs in the festival of holi and the garments are hand
factories and households as helpers. I believe sewn using different seams and stitches and
that these skilled beings should be employed finished with some beautiful embroidery done
for the work they best in. by hand.
P atuta

a brand building project

My inspirations:
Fictional book- Palace of Illusions
Autobioraphy - Amrita Shergil
Skill- kalamkari and zardozi embroidery
Art- mughal architecture
Historic personality- Cleopatra
 I worked with vegetable dyes inspired from the
kalamkari and dyed the zardozi embroidered The croquis and silhouettes were inspired
fabrics in the dyes, the zardozi caught the by the three very strong women of my
caught a tinge of the color. The embroidery inspirations- Amrita Shergill,
motifs were inspired from the mughal Draupadi,
architecture. Cleopatra
T Ehe xquisite C
orpse
The exquisite corpse was a collaborative project
a take on surrealism until a specific part of the project, everyone
was given one surrealist personality and we
had to create mood boards for that personality
(Marlene Dietrich). My personal mood board
was about describing Marlene’s personality,
her androgynous style and her bold eye make
up and strength. We were then put in groups
with colleagues doing 2 other personalities; I
was paired with Elsa Schiaparelli and Pablo
Picasso. The three mood boards were then put
together and then a individual collection was
designed inspired by three artists of their times.
A collection that showcased a part of each
artist.
extures, prints and embroideries exploration
 Zoya

I am a fighter, I have won,

I feel some changes,
Some soft and some warm,
I feel my presence in her,
But does she know I won ?

I’ll make my presence known to her,

I’ll raise my hand to her,
T Ehe mbryo P rint
Make her dance with joy with him,
Her eyes will shine like the stars.
understanding prints and repeats
I nonw feel her love,
Her hands protecting me now and then,
My hands reach out to her,
To let her hold me;
I now kick her and make her laugh.

She tells everyone she love me,

She says I am her princess!
She’ll protect me from the worst that comes to me,
She’ll be my shield

Zoya she calls me

And as I come into this world;
A mother is born!
Metamorphosis was about learning the different
types of repeats used in printing, for example the ogee
repeat, diamond repeat, circular repeat, horizontal
repeat and more. The idea was to take something that
went through the process of metamorphosis, to extract
forms for the print that further would be developed.
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