Indian clothing often combines traditional and contemporary elements and is distinguished by its vibrant fabrics, elaborate decorations, and dynamic forms. Isha Nabar uses fashion in New York to showcase and promote her unique Indian background.
She is a fashion designer located in New York City, who was born and reared in India and is presently employed by Tanya Taylor. Isha has earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a minor in Creative Entrepreneurship from the Parsons School of Design. She has explored her design sensibility in part as a result of her deep and varied Indian heritage. Her sense of style is one that exudes calm, fluidity, and subtle movement. She believes that dressing should be an experience- one that goes beyond artistic expression to sensory and immersive sophistication.
Sustainable practices and alternative approaches to health and medicine are well-known in India. Isha promotes “Wellness wearing” and “evolved design thinking,” which she terms as ways to incorporate themes throughout her work.
Her collection ‘Resonance’ is a compilation that uses sound’s therapeutic properties to relax, center, and balance the body. She believes that there is a greater need now more than ever for a thoughtful and meditative frame of mind, in an age consumed by confusion, unrest, and disturbance. Every organ and cell in our body has its own vibrations, and when these vibrations are in tune, they produce the most exquisite symphony imaginable. Cells in our body are deeply affected by sound vibrations, which turn on detoxification processes and promote mental and emotional health.
As a result, she has used sound as the primary inspiration for her collection and included meditative sound-producing mechanisms into the materiality of her clothes, in an effort to physically channel good energy and support the equilibrium of the body’s energy centers. Each garment has a sense of rhythm and flow that melds peaceful sounds into her visual design, immersing one’s senses in unexpected ways and evoking a sense of serenity.
Isha’s name has gained some recognition as she has received the AATCC Foundation Jasani Textile Scholarship and was a finalist for the UK’s Creative Conscience Award. Over a few weeks during COVID, she also collaborated with Devrai Art Village craftsmen in India to make ‘Dhokra’ handicrafts, as well as worked with businesses including Oscar de la Renta and Derek Lam 10 Crosby in New York, and House of Masaba & Vogue India in Mumbai.
Isha has developed her voice as a remarkable artist who lives far from home. That was one of the most significant challenges for her at the beginning of her voyage in New York. She admits that finding a means of expression as an artist that stays true to her unique Indian cultural background within a global context was not easy. Having navigated her way through this, she is now looking forward to creating works that are self-explanatory, distinctive and authentic, among others.
Her style goes beyond mere aesthetics in her eyes. Although aesthetics are crucial, she believes that the buyer today also places emphasis on the vision and ideals that the brand represents. She expresses on wanting to create a connection with her customer through her pieces based on this belief. She encourages other designers to do the same as she sees it as a way to change lives. She also stresses on the significance of daily creative stimulation and maintaining one’s curiosity.
For Isha, the future looks more like expanding her brand and merging her two worlds in her creative journey, while holding steadfastly to the bigger picture of becoming.
Follow Isha through her website, https://www.ishanabar.com/.
Email: Ishanabar22@gmail.com
Instagram- isha_nabar
