How the angrakha went from courtly classic to contemporary staple
Angelique Raina, founder of Acquire, a label synonymous with Somquie texture ready-to-wear, is fascinated by the silhouette of Angrakha for her agentic fabric arrangement. “Noble or silhouette in both cases,” she shares. During the months, Raina played with the silhouette with an iterative approach, introducing crunchy polins, shiny satins and even a metallic wire – which makes it a signature part in the brand’s lexicon.
With its origins in male fashion, Angrakha has traveled a curious path, turning into an androgynous garment favored by all. Santanu Das, founder of the label based in Kolkata, Maku, is known for the fashion of varied textile repertoire of Bengal in minimum and classic clothes. Angrakha is a recurring silhouette, the one he spent years perfecting, by realizing it in dresses gathered in vaporous jamdani and texturing wool, starting with his first iteration in 2016. “When we started to make them for women, we wanted to maintain the inherent stimulation, but that these openings were exposed, so these openings were exposed, so we were on the shoulder, To a Sleveref forms eyes.
