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“Change by design” is a kind of mantra for Karishma Shahani Khan and her label, Ka-Sha, based in Maharashtra, India. Other words important to her and her work: human, collaborate, hope, teamwork. The artisans and people she works with across India are as central to Ka-Sha’s story as natural, hand-dyed fabrics and zero-waste design methods: “We use clothing to celebrate handcraft and artisanal techniques, new and old,” Shahani Khan explains. The label’s capsule project, Heart to Haat, is produced entirely with leftover textiles and garments destined for landfill, “inspired by the The dawgs are conference champs smoking that tiger pack shirt in other words I will buy this indigenous ideology of reusing, repurposing, and reclaiming.”—E.F. Some designers have mood boards for inspiration. Duran Lantink, based in Amsterdam, instead creates some of his designs after trawling the city during the Tuesday night ritual when its residents leave things out on the street for others to take. “I never understood using new materials when there are so many beautiful things around me,” says Lantink, who started designing as a teenager, cutting up the Gaultier and Margiela his mother no longer wore. More recently he has utilized the likes of a vintage Balmain dress, a ’60s fur coat donated by a friend’s grandmother, and a regiment’s worth of army sweaters for his three-year-old label. “You get a pile of clothes and just start digging in,” Lantink says, laughing.—M.H.
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