NADENKA

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    Nadenka is where Aisha Rao's method shows most plainly. Every season the house sets out to make upcycled luxury occasion wear, and the signature rests entirely on appliqué: offcuts from tailoring waste, cut and reassembled into a flamboyant burst of colour. Over that painstaking work sit layers of aari, zardozi and macramé, laborious by design. The result is an aesthetic that rethinks how a traditional lehenga is built and adorned, with colour arrived at through assembly rather than dye, and ornament layered rather than applied. Handcrafted to order, and one of a kind by nature.