トームさんのインスタグラム写真 - (トームInstagram)「When you think of Rajasthan, you think of the vibrant colours of leheriya and bandhini textiles, handmade juttis and the beautiful intricate enamelling of kundan jewellery. As a state rich in handicrafts, its tie to fashion is strong. It is also has one of the lowest literacy rates in India, (with women being a huge casualty of this occurrence). This results in its local craftspeople lacking the skillset required to make their unique cultural savoir-faire relevant in contemporary corporate India. American artist Michael Daube realised there was an important link between the two. Daube’s journey in India started in 1988, while he was working with Mother Teresa. The organisation he founded, CITTA—a non-profit with a mission to confront health, education and economic development through the empowerment of women in remote or marginalised communities in the world—has worked on various projects, including in Nepal, where it constructed a hospital, as well as a women’s centre that creates knitwear and crochet in cashmere and wool. Their work features in the collections of J.Crew, Anthropologie, Kate Spade, Donna Karan. His latest destination is Jaisalmer, known as the ‘Golden City’. Says Daube, “Donna Karan and Christina Ong wanted to start product development with under-privileged women in a venture with Bali’s Como Shambala. They asked me to create some embroidered yoga bags for their first products. I had recently visited Jaisalmer to assess the condition, and access to education, of girls, or essentially the abysmal lack thereof, and thought I’d initiate the project there. Everyone said, ‘There’s no way you will be able to work with the women in these villages’.” . It was there that Daube discovered ajrakh, a unique form of woodblock printing from Sindh, known for its geometric shapes and its crimson and indigo colour palette, an art used by men for cummerbunds and women for dupattas. With anything between nine to 21 stages of printing and dyeing, ajrakh is one of the most complex craft techniques in the world today, one that dates back to the Harappa civilisation of the Indus valley... @vogueindia @sujstyle @bharathram @mdaube @cittaorg @crsjaisalmer」10月16日 7時11分