Jahanara Rony

Concept vs Construction Designers, educators, and commentators often use the terms’ fashion’ and ‘apparel’ interchangeably. In practice, they describe two distinct stages of the same journey. Fashion expresses a concept. Apparel turns that concept into a manufactured, wearable product. The difference matters because it determines whether a concept remains symbolic or becomes viable. In its […]

There was a time when pearls belonged firmly to a particular image: elegant, reserved, and slightly untouchable. They sat neatly on silk blouses and wedding day décolletage, admired rather than reimagined. But in recent years, pearls have undergone a subtle rebellion, and at the centre of it sits a modern classic: the pearl huggie. Understated