About Mix Signals
Mixed, reworked, lived in.
The Art of the Mix
There has always been something about Indian clothing that stays with you.
A particular embroidery. The weight of a brocade. A silhouette you recognise immediately. The way someone's hands can spend hours making a tiny detail that, at first glance, you might barely notice.
And yet, there is something equally compelling about asking what else those details could become.
What else can a technique become? What else can a silhouette look like? What happens when proportions change, when fabrics meet differently, when something traditional is given a completely new context?
Mixsignals is built around that curiosity.
We explore Indian clothing and craft, with each collection becoming another experiment, another combination of ideas, and another opportunity to look at something familiar from a different angle.
Between contrasts.
Craft × Form
Indian handwork, textiles and techniques are given room to become part of the clothing itself. Sometimes the craft leads the silhouette. Sometimes the silhouette gives the craft a new character.
Familiar × Unexpected
A kurti. A brocade. A handworked motif. Things that already carry a sense of recognition, approached with a little more freedom in shape, proportion, placement or detail.
Instinct × Experiment
Ideas explored through instinct, experimentation and the freedom to let each piece take its own direction.
How a piece comes to be.
Each piece at Mix Signals moves through hands before it reaches yours. A silhouette built first. An embroidery conversation that never goes one way. Hours of work that a machine cannot replicate.
The Sketch
It begins with a sketch. Not a perfect one, just enough to hold the idea. The shape of the silhouette, where the embroidery might live, how much of the garment it should claim. A neckline. A hem. A sleeve that deserves something quietly extraordinary running along its edge.
The Silhouette
The sketch goes to the tailor first. The silhouette has to be right before anything else can be. Cut, fit, proportion: these decisions come before a single thread is placed, because the embroidery will only ever be as good as the garment it sits on.
The Brief
Once the base is ready, the embroidery brief begins. Sketches meet visual references. The karigar sees the fabric, considers the weave and the weight, and offers their own thinking. That conversation always changes something, usually for the better.
The Work
Then the embroidery begins. Slowly, by hand, the way it has always been done. A single piece can take days, sometimes weeks, depending on how much the design asks of the maker.
The Check
Every piece is checked: the embroidery, its neatness, its consistency, whether the thread lies flat or pulls. The garment itself, zips that open smoothly, seams that hold, a fit that moves with the body. It has to work in the real world. Not just look beautiful on a hanger, but feel right on a person living their actual life.