MANDALI MENDRILLA ATELIER™ sculptural couture designs are meditations.
The Earth friendly, award-winning Mandali Mendrilla Atelier™ specializes in handcrafting one of a kind garments, custom designed for one person only, from mood board, to sketch, to meticulous tailoring.
Each Atelier garment is designed and handled by Mandali herself.
In 2014, Mandali has introduced the Yantra Couture™ intuitive custom designing method. Ancient sciences are applied to sculptural garments in a complex design process practiced only at and unique to Atelier Mendrilla™.
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‘The Flower’, Atelier Mendrilla’s latest art installation presented in 2024, at the Helsinki Fashion Week’s 10th anniversary edition, completes the previous installations on HFW namely: TIME and SPACE, into a triptych called: TIME, SPACE & THE FLOWER.
With ‘The Flower’, Atelier Mendrilla applies its signature Yantra Couture method to AR. Click here to discover more.
‘Space’ 3D digital sculptural couture collection, was first presented at the 2020 Helsinki Fashion Week event:
As the ‘in real life’ versions of the digital looks are completed, the ‘Space’ collection is presented as one of a kind Atelier Mendrilla sculptural garments.
The Sculptor, Look I in the ‘Space’ collection, was displayed as a sculptural garment in January 2022 on the label’s Instagram page:
Thus, Mandali Mendrilla was ‘exploring phygital future’ in collaboration with Digital Village and Helsinki Fashion Week.
‘Time’ runway presentation at the 2019. Helsinki Fashion Week:
Click here to read more about the Time collection.
Padma II, eco friendly textile ink on up-cycled silk and cotton, up-cycled temple embroidery, 2017. – Yantra Couture™
Discover a body of work in Mendrilla’s sculptural couture series, in the ‘Moon’ part of the ‘Fairytale of the Sun and Moon’ runway presentation at Fashion Week Zagreb, by clicking here.
Mandala of Desires (Blue Lotus Wish Tree), eco friendly textile ink on peace silk, 2015. – Yantra Couture™
Click here to view the Mandala of Desires on Exhibit.
Kamadhenu, eco friendly textile ink on peace silk, 2016. – Yantra Couture™
Kamadhenu was officially exhibited in 2016. as an art installation, suspended in the centrepiece of Zagreb’s Zrinjevac Park’s Music Pavilion during the 8th Days of India, as Wish Tree Dress III, celebrating the friendship between Croatia and India.
Srngar Couture™
Srngar (1) Couture™ is a part of Yantra Couture™. Srngar Couture™ at Mandali Mendrilla Atelier is inspired by Mendrilla’s studies of Indian temple art and deity worship under tutelage of Kenneth R. Valpey, Phd, Oxford University, author of “Attending Krishna’s Image”.
A Srngar Couture™ garment tailored for human customers is created according to a yantra diagram. This yantra diagram is inspired by a mood board containing impressions of a sacred garment that was previously worn by or is currently belonging to a temple deity.
The sacred garment may be incorporated into the design, as in the gown displayed below.
Another possibility in Srngar Couture™ is designing with the temple deity’s garment in mind.
The practice of wearing garments previously worn by temple deities is an ancient Eastern tradition.
Mandali Mendrilla Atelier’s Srngar Couture™ service is also available to temples and individual customers who wish to create unique garments and ornaments made for the pleasure of and inspired by the form and pastime stories of their temple or personal deities.
Such ‘srngar’ is tailored to the exact measurements of the deity’s form. These measurements are collected by Mandali Mendrilla herself, or under her guidance. The ‘srngar’, consisting of garments, backdrops and other ornaments, is designed with a mood board in mind, containing impressions of a particular pastime related to the occasion at which the garment is offered.
The crafting of such ‘srngar’ items at Mandali Mendrilla Atelier is executed while respecting standards of cleanliness prescribed for temples that follow ‘Pancaratrika-vidhi’.
(1) The term ‘srngar’ is generally used to refer to the “decoration” of the body of the god and of his temple environment. – C. Packert, “The Art of Loving Krishna: Ornamentation and Devotion”, Indiana University Press, 2010.
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