 JAN 6:
Khadi is now gaining popularity with the country's youth as jeans made
in Khadi hit markets.Over the years the poor man's cloth
popularised by Mahatama Gandhi during the freedom struggle has become
a style statement with top Hollywood actors including Richard Gere and
Kate Winslet wearing it to film premieres and award ceremonies.
Indian designers as well have brought out entire range of apparel
made in the cool, somber looking fabric, suited almost perfectly to
Asia's humid and often extremely hot climate but this is the first
time experiments have been made with jeans.
K. Mohan Rao, director of the Khadi Village Industries in southern
Andhra Pradesh state, said though machines have long overtaken the
weaver's profile, the basic principle for manufacture of denim, the
original fabric for jeans, and Khadi is the same and allows weavers to
do a range of experimentation and innovations.
"They (weavers) have started manufacturing this jeans. The Khadi
defines hand woven and hand spun, so even jeans cloth also is made by
hand spinning, they are getting the yarn by hand weaving only," Rao
said at the launch of the new range in capital Hyderabad.
A million weavers produce nearly 70 million metres of Khadi a year
but it accounts for less than one percent of India's total cotton
textile production. (ANI) | 
JAN
6: This designer-turning-filmmaker is
often in the news, but from what Manish Malhotra
tells us, rarely for the reasons he wishes. “It has been widely
reported that I’ve been working on my film, so people just assume I
don’t design anymore,” he says.
