Carte Blanche is a women-led independent accessories brand founded in 2019. We craft modern classic accessories of sustainable luxury, giving our wearers options to individualize and elevate minimalist basics, to sustain and enjoy a slow fashion wardrobe.
What makes each Carte Blanche piece unique is the cultural cross-pollination of global and Indian art to create a new-age design that represents the international aesthetics of a globalized world. Our prints are inspired from treasures of art and culture and hand-illustrated with carefully selected unique colours, before transferring to highly saturated silk twill – an enduring textile sourced from industrial cutoffs of international manufacturers.
The studio’s focus is on maintaining high quality design and production, while ensuring small-batch, minimum waste operations. We work with small and medium scale vendors in the south of India within 200 kms. of each other, to minimize our carbon footprint and contribute to the local craft community.
Founder’s Profile :-
Carte Blanche is founded by sisters Vatsala Holani & Manasvita Lakhotia, whose creative differences give the brand its energy. Vatsala is a NIFT, New Delhi alumni who has been designing lifestyle accessories for a decade, with a strong functional and sustainable focus. A short stint at Central Saint Martins, London sparked a conversation on fading treasures of art & culture which informed Carte Blanche’s raison d’être. Manasvita trained in design strategy at HEC, Paris and worked with European luxury houses before creating the aesthetic base for Carte Blanche. She is passionate about developing a design language for new age ethical luxury. Their vision is to harmoniously blend their Indian roots with a global aesthetic informed from their travels, living and cultural explorations.
Collection Note:-
Inspired from Renaissance gardens of Italy, Ortus is a collection of silk scarves, stoles and accessories that use techniques of Picchwai paintings to capture the transient dark beauty of summer emerging in a garden.
Emerging from a spring of discontent,we come out of our walls,embracing a
new flowering. Praying for another Renaissance. An uncertain but still glorious summer. The mosaics of Pompeii, vineyards of Tuscany and sunsets at a Calabrian orange orchard all find a place in the collection, which is saturated in vintage tints of rouge, sapphire, gold and jade.
Picchwai, an art form that originated in Nathdwara, Rajasthan focuses on background tapestry, usually foliage based, a technique used fully in the ‘Enchanted Garden’ print, showcasing “Ninfa’ one of the most beautiful gardens in the world. One of the rarest moths in the world is celebrated in a camouflage pattern of delicate bougainvillea flowers. Twilly scarves and belt styles give hints of mellow richness of the high-impact prints.
