The new collection of Divyam Mehta includes skirts inspired by South Indian Mundus

Delhi -based fashion designer Divyam Mehta’s new collection Still Waters | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Intentionally, with calculated accuracy, Delhi -based fashion designer Divyam Mehta defined inspiration behind her newly launched summer collection Still Waters. He borrows the design language of the collection from South Asian contemporary art, tribal rugs and marine straps, but manipulates his grammar to create a Mundu skirt, clothes, gillets, pajamas, pajamas, trousers, tops and jackets added with layered tunics. “For moodboard,” they explain, “we were mainly looking at modern arts from Cambodia, Indonesia and South India, but these motivations have been manipulated and edited to make some abstract, simple, bold and contemporary.

Delhi -based fashion designer Divyam Mehta | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Design diary

This experiment is expanded to the traditional drapes or crafts to Chiffon Gilets and Toys, Divyam, who launched her first Mainswear Line in 2009 and her first female collection at Wils India Fashion Week in 2010, navigates modern-speed-cross-traditional fields through her compositions. With kantha stitching as a reliable partner, the collection of Divyam for water still has bizarre, bizarre, pace and peace in small towns of South Asia. The collection of six months (September 2024 to February 2025) was conceived in Kerala. “I rejuvenated South India last year, visited for Ayurveda, and was enamored with the beauty of the states.

Collection campaign was shot in Fort Kochi photo credit: Special arrangement

Crafting Draps

Edit champion textiles such as silks (mulberry silk) from South India; Linen, cotton and Makka silk from West Bengal; And silk mixture from Gujarat. Divyam’s brand is tied with many craft groups across India. The label has a manufacturing-unit-cum-studio, including a team of nili 100 craftsmen, tailor and managers in Noida, Delhi and an outlet in the city’s defense colony. “Our weaving and kantha work is from Phulia in West Bengal. We also work with some craft groups in Kutch and Kumaon Division in thermakand, from where we buy silk and cotton weaving,” he shares. Divyam has also used Kerala’s cotton handloom in his new collection. He said, “We have developed some clothes in association with Social Impact Organization Save the Loom that are working with weavers in Kerala and to revive and improve the handloom area. It is challenging to find traditional clothes new idioms and a process we like as a brand,” they say.

The color palette of the collection is a splash of pink sand, dull coal, ivory and sand photo credits: Special arrangements

Still about the shades of water, no one will imagine them to share some closeness with the element of water; Perhaps, blue tone. But Divyam surprises with pink sand, dull-black coal, ivory and sand splatter. The color blue only comes into selected denim pieces of the collection, but turmeric is used as an accent in yellow clothing, which tends a certain edge to edit. “We have also used IKAT in this collection; weaving has been purchased from Hyderabad. However, I have always included Kantha in most of my collections because it adds textures and weight to the silhouette,” says Divyam.

Color Neela comes only in selected denim pieces of collection photo credits: Special arrangements

For now, the Divyam brand’s autumn-winter is working on 2025 edit, as well as with a collaborative project with Pashmina weavers of Kashmir.

The water still consists of 45 styles and the textile starts from 15,000 Compled on DivyMeMhta.com.