• 15th June fashion work at Mani Square
  • 15th June fashion work at Mani Square

About Amalin

Son of well-known muralist Alokemoy Datta and male fashion designer Sharbari Datta, Amalin has developed a style all his own. His wardrobe for women recreates the ageless heritage of Indian textile in a contemporary vocabulary. With art, music and mythology as his horizon, Amalin innovatively adapts traditional line, colors and design elements to create a new coliseum. He successfully bridges the distance between tradition and modernity to make a contemporary style statement in a fast changing India. Amalin synthesizes print, embroidery and dye to rework the magic of Indian aesthetics. In the process, he steps in where prêt stores sign off and pre-empts the ramp-wear artiste. Each dress envisaged by him manifests a freshness that is what takes us to a designer in the first place. Amalin designs evening wears for women who are regularly observed at cocktails and parties. His armoury of needlework traditions creatively crafts cocktail dresses and bridal wears, daily wears and evening jackets, sarongs and scarves.

His embellishment is not impractical laces or impossible ribbons: He dresses up the royal silk with a rich palette of colours. He experiments with shades and pigments. If he wants to play with earth colours traditionally obtained from vegetable dyes, he sits with his craftsmen to see if he can obtain that even when he uses chemical dye. No theory restricts his free flowing use of colour that defies conventional concepts.

Amalin effortlessly marries tradition with the contemporary, color with texture, rare thread work with exquisite motifs, clean lines with multiple layers to create ensembles that are subtle yet stunning, understated yet opulent.

His Inspiration

The natural world where the sun, moon and stars smile on a frothy stream as it ripples down the stony bedrock of mossy green. Where brightly plumed kingfishers with red dagger- like bills swiftly swoop down on nimble silvery fins. Where red crowned woodpeckers with yellow belly and ivory bills create music with their rhythmic tapping on brown tree-trunks dressed in green. Where yellow- feathered gold finch, warblers and orioles reach for an auzure sky. Where chitals and sambars flaunt their white spotted fawns as they graze in islands of leafy foliage. Where yellows and whites break the greys and beige of speckled rattlesnakes that roam the prairies and pinewoods...