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‘Fashion is an industry where we can actually communicate sustainable values and encourage the younger generation to be aware and conscious of the decisions that they make every day. That spirituality is Mandali Mendrilla – it’s mindfulness that she focuses on. I actually cried at her fashion show. She had bells attached to the models legs and I can’t describe the powerful energy it created.’ Evelyn Mora, HFW Director, for Dezeen 

Click here to download the collection catalogue.

Runway Production: Helsinki Fashion Week
Styling: Reena Lakhani

Thank you: 

Helsinki Fashion Week
Stephanie Vrinda Sato
Aniyora Vegter
Vesna Mendrila
Vrindi Barriball
Shobhita
Jeanette Van Veen
Shyam-Nam Kasraei
Biocrystal
Michalina Pabyanczyk

Featured embroidery pieces:

Sri Sri Radha Govinda mahaprasadam
Sri Sri Radha Londonisvara mahaprasadam

In the TIME collection, the house of Mandali Mendrilla is reflecting the cyclical nature of time by exploring, in the design process, the Eastern science of Vastu architecture and its intuitive application to the crafting of sculptural couture garments.

In 2014, Atelier Mendrilla introduced Yantra CoutureTM, intuitive custom designing. Yantra Couture is based on the designer’s intuitive use of the rules of Vastu architecture and specifically ancient Yantras, diagrams that harmonise energies in space and time which are the bases of sculptural couture patterns.

With the TIME collection, based on Yantra Couture designs, Mandali Mendrilla hopes to inspire a more holistic approach to fashion in particular and life in general.

Select garments in the TIME collection are enriched with the Biocrystal dust consisting of 16 crystals, as well as silver and gold.

Runway movie production:

Director and videographer: Filip Gour
Assistant videographer: Neven Mendrila
Producer: Madhu Philip Van Paare

Gallery photo credits: Anna Semerdijev, Yasmine Diba, Claires