Six Rising Fashion Designers Who Have Our Attention

These talents are showing their work in London, Milan or Paris. Institution, founded by Georgia-born Azerbaijani Galib Gassanoff, melds sharp tailoring with upcycled materials — a peplum top made from shoelaces and a sleeveless piece using rattan place mats among them.

He reinterprets traditional Azerbaijani chepkens, collaborated with carpet weavers from Georgia’s Borchaly region, and will show his new collection on Feb. 27 at Milan’s historic thermal baths. Sanjay Garg’s New Delhi label Raw Mango will make its London Fashion Week debut this season.

Born from a 2008 textile project in Chanderi, his collection “It’s Not About the Flower” assembles silk tuberose and jasmine blossoms by hand and places them atop lightly embroidered brocades, rib-knit cottons, quilted rayon and wool felt.

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