Sabyasachi saw a sarcophagus and made a cuff
Fashion designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee is launching a new jewelry collection inspired by Byzantine artifacts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The collection features QR codes that allow buyers to trace the historical origins of their wearable pieces.
Why it matters
This collaboration represents a growing trend of luxury brands bridging the gap between high-end consumer goods and historical preservation through digital integration.
What does luxury mean to Sabyasachi Mukherjee now? Sleep and silence, says the Kolkata-based designer. He is giving a select group of journalists a tour of his new store in Mehauli, Delhi, a 26,000 sq.ft. construction that is anything but quiet: a “mini Calcutta” of corridors, rooms, tea, Gaudi-inspired ceramic fruit, music and references gathered from his own visual archive.
He talks about finding quietness in the noisiest places, and about sitting in coffee shops and observing people. He talks about music that makes no sense but gives him joy - Alisha Chinai’s 1985 hit ‘Tarzan, My Tarzan’ is living rent-free in my head two weeks later! And then he gets down to his pet subject: museums.
The Gaudi-inspired ceramic fruit hand-painted by an artisan in Kolkata brings Mukherjee ‘’glee”
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