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The first time that designers David Abraham and Rakesh Thakore showed at the India Fashion Week was in 2010.

They sent a model down the ramp wearing a black handloom sari, belted and worn well above the ankle “because we were playing with proportion”, tied tightly as if to leave its traditional languidness behind, and paired with heavy platform clogs.

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It was radical and edgy. The demure traditional drape of India had walked into the world of high fashion with a bold new confidence.

“I remember everyone was a bit shocked because, one, we were doing our first show in India and, two, we had opened a fashion show with a sari,” says Abraham.

He, along with Thakore and Kevin Nigli—their third and lesser-known partner, who has been with them since the beginning—had launched their fashion label, Abraham & Thakore (A&T), nearly two decades ago, in 1992.

Last month, we met them at their atelier in Noida, adjoi