Textile designer Sanjay Garg and jewelery designer Hanut Singh will present a meeting point of art, textiles and jewelery, in collaboration with India art fair. Sanjay’s major store Raw Mango Belgian designer and stylist will host an entire day exhibition cured by Maria Van Dam.
The first edition of the sensitive was held in Delhi in 2023, shown Hanut’s jewelery with global aesthetics and the contemporary line of sari and Kapjay and the contemporary line of clothes worked by crafts groups in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal and Varanasi. Antique marble sculptures were used to display the pieces of statement jewelery.
Hanut, whose jewelery, has beautified personalities like Madonna, Meril Streep, Rihanna, Beyonss and Kareena Kapoor, says that working with raw mango and India Art Fair “introduces the structure, scale and systems, and the system that is different from my normal rhythm.
Sanjay does not see art, design, fashion and culture as compartmentalized Silo: “The design is not just fashion and what is the scene. The idea of the design is to create experiences that spark the conversation on culture, heritage and history.”
Hanut, who belongs to the Karputla royal family in Punjab, reflects his shared interests with Sanjay: “Many of my pieces have been drawn from my time in the hills-their peace, their organic looks, and that whatever unphetical manifests appears, the feeling of waking up on it.
Meera Nair and Hanut Singh | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
In its first showcase in the city, Hanut will introduce a mixture of classics and current investigations. “One of the standout pieces for me is Emerald Windcims; they combine technical artistry, cut delicate triangles with emeralds, and have a feeling of lightness, movement and balance.” Hanuta designs inspiration from history to architecture and nature, which is reflected in the form of daggers, swords or leaves.
Sanjay and Hanut first collaborated for Raw Mango’s 2021 collection, romantics. Sanjay recalls, “The collection was vested in European influence on the Indian saree. Textiles attracted from the Rococo period, developing a new language of vegetation -forest lights – vegetation and organisms – it is the same specific European language that affects Hanut’s work, it is right.”
Hanut says that his interests contained in crafts, heritage, modernity and luxury helped them complement each other’s work. “Our languages may not look like clear companions at first glance, my maximum maximum and Sanjay is as high as a minimum, but they sit together beautifully – the two draw from the past, while starting it again for the current, with an eye for the future.”
He also came to know that he had customers in general – Kiran Rao, Meera Nair and Karisma Kapoor. Hanut says, “So perhaps the challenge is not in the aesthetics itself, but in the wearer – does she have the confidence to join the styles. Many women who inspire me, such as Gayatri Devi or my grandmother, Sita Devi, did exactly the same, exactly the same, which instead of her shiffon or more traditional forms, instead of adding or more traditional forms,”
Sanjay says that the duration of found objects and textiles shows how their attitude is present together. To choose Hyderabad for the exhibition, Sanjay says it was one of the early markets of Raw Mango. “City is an interesting mixture of history and modernity. It is one of the most multicultural cities in the south – metropolitan, multilingual, even with their food.”
(Hot 2.0 Raw Mango Store, Road No. 1, Banjara Hills, will be seen on 6 August)
Published – July 30, 2025 03:16 pm IST
