Waris Ahluwalia is one of New York's many polymaths. He's a designer, actor, artist, fashion muse, style icon and story teller. He's also one of the few Sikhs here to be called a man-about-town - women adore him - and is photographed at the chicest events wearing a custom made Sa
vile Row suit, pocket square, Indian cashmere scarf and a turban.
House of Waris, his jewellery company, has been described as "idiosyncratically beautiful" - all pieces are handcrafted in Jaipur, and so Ahluwalia splits his time between India and New York. The one of a kind pieces are sold at Colette in Paris, Barneys in New York and Liberty in London, amongst other luxury stores. He has designed a more affordable diffusion line called 'Waris Loves You', exclusively for yoox.com
Waris Ahluwalia is sticking his neck into the fashion circus with a colorful launch of scarves. In vivid blues, greens, pinks, yellows and grays, the wraps are in embroidered cashmere and silk and the techniques used to create them are sourced from India, where Ahluwalia was born.
Ahluwalia decided to expand his label, the House of Waris, for practical reasons. “I’ve got to grow the business… and jewelry is a very costly business,” he said. “I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but gold is expensive, so right now my cost of production is outrageous. What I wanted was another category which didn’t cost as much. It’s still expensive. Cashmere is expensive, but not compared to gold.” He added, “And I do wear scarves, I love scarves, and it’s materials, it’s textiles, it’s the same sort of raw materials… they all get worked into beautiful things.”
vile Row suit, pocket square, Indian cashmere scarf and a turban.
House of Waris, his jewellery company, has been described as "idiosyncratically beautiful" - all pieces are handcrafted in Jaipur, and so Ahluwalia splits his time between India and New York. The one of a kind pieces are sold at Colette in Paris, Barneys in New York and Liberty in London, amongst other luxury stores. He has designed a more affordable diffusion line called 'Waris Loves You', exclusively for yoox.com
Waris Ahluwalia is sticking his neck into the fashion circus with a colorful launch of scarves. In vivid blues, greens, pinks, yellows and grays, the wraps are in embroidered cashmere and silk and the techniques used to create them are sourced from India, where Ahluwalia was born.
Ahluwalia decided to expand his label, the House of Waris, for practical reasons. “I’ve got to grow the business… and jewelry is a very costly business,” he said. “I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but gold is expensive, so right now my cost of production is outrageous. What I wanted was another category which didn’t cost as much. It’s still expensive. Cashmere is expensive, but not compared to gold.” He added, “And I do wear scarves, I love scarves, and it’s materials, it’s textiles, it’s the same sort of raw materials… they all get worked into beautiful things.”
Like his jewelry, Ahluwalia said the designs were inspired by “love and history. I don’t understand either of them, but that’s what keeps me coming back.”
