Saris Tag

How can a single, unstitched length of fabric have such a lavish story to inform? That’s just what curator Priya Khanchandani explores in “The Offbeat Sari,” an exhibition at London’s Design Museum that runs until Sept. 17. Three years within the making, it's Britain’s first, large-scale exhibition to look at the sari from all angles and showcases dozens of styles, nearly all of them on loan from designers and studios across India. Far older, and more democratic, than a pair of blue jeans, the sari has been worn for hundreds of years by wealthy and poor, aristocrats and laborers, and all genders. Over the centuries it has been protective, decorative, and worn as a method of political, cultural and self-expression. Latterly, the sari has...