Paris Fashion Week: Indian Artist Shakuntala Kulkarni Designs Dior Show's Backdrop With A Message

Paris Fashion Week commenced on February 26. recently held Dior show as part of gala fashion event, featured an unmissable India connect. backdrop for show was designed by Indian artist Shakuntala Kulkarni, inspired by her vision of modern, empowered woman.

Shakuntala Kulkarni makes India proud at Paris Fashion Week

backdrop for Paris Fashion Week's Dior show was designed by Indian artist Shakuntala Kulkarni. Scant sculptures built from cane, guarded sleek runway as models walked in ensembles created as a hom to modernising designer March Bohan. Going back to Kulkarni's sculptures, y were a dead ringer for armour aestic with with perceptually flowing can-hems also reminiscent of ball gown silhouette.

series was titled 'Of Bodies, Armours and Cs' and was a visual representation of what evolving idea of a woman, stands for - strength, cour, resilience, generosity, and dignity. metaphor series attempted to highlight was idea of woman evolving through different eras with armour standing as a literal and metaphorical protector of tradition.

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t just installation, Kulkarni also featured moments from her 2016 film Juloos, printed on canvas. Dior's official website, explains segment as follows,  "(It) examines feminine subjectivity, t only in light of body’s social and political vulnerability but also, and more importantly, its power within urban and social system in which we evolve."

Kulkarni's work for Dior show is right in line with what her whimsically beautiful work attempts to achieve as part of larger picture. Having trained under Somnath Hore, particularly in mural painting, Kulkarni has repeatedly captured essence of what it means to be a modern woman in a patriarchal world - her work striking a realistically tipping balance between formidability and unsurety of same.