We want to start the trend for printed saris again. Our purpose was to display our design revolution and to be direct with our design approach. It was disappointing to see that PFDC didn’t treat the voile shows as part of their overall event. We participated in the PFDC Sunsilk Fashion Week in March 2011 but got stuck in the afternoon voile programmes that only a handful of people attended. How do you feel about the fashion weeks’ wave that has taken over the country? I just love going to the origin of things and how they came into being and so Kayseria prints are also about that history of creation of a particular artistic tradition. My education in art, both in my undergraduate and graduate studies, allowed me to discover my essence and that’s the vision that I have for Kayseria. The word revolution is not just used for uprooting and destroying but is also for giving a 360 degree turn and of going back to the origins to start from a new perspective. So we are not insecure about attaching ourselves with a designer just for the sake of it.ĭo you think you could have done all this without formal education in arts?Įducation brings about a revolution.
Hence, we have many young fresh minds from design schools working for us. We’re very supportive of the creative process and feel that it should be given due credit. We are always open to getting designers and, in fact, we’re the only company willing and prepared to give royalties to designers for their due recognition but our experience so far has been that they are too demanding and unprofessional. Pakistan should be proud to have someone like him who has done justice to every tradition he has sought to revive. The way he does embellishments is superb. I admire designers like Rizwan Beyg immensely. Although, you are an artist yourself, would you still consider attaching Kayseria’s name with a ‘designer’ label? There’s been a growing trend of getting designers on board for promoting lawn. Lots of new people will enter the market and some will also leave. So, what we create are artistic prints that are affordable yet appealing to the discerning customer. Kayseria, however, is an art and design studio with a rooting in the textile industry that makes it special. Well, there are these big textile houses on one hand and then these individual luxury pret designers on the other, and there seems to be no synergy between the two. Where do you position your brand Kayseria amidst this recent lawn explosion? The Express Tribune speaks to Kayseria’s captain to see what lies ahead for 2012. It’s been a year since Zaman held the reigns and one can clearly see his education at The Prince’s School of Tradition Arts’ London take form in prints that are inspired from Islamic geometry, icon and miniature painting, western calligraphy and wood parquetry. Under the direction of its young and dynamic director Waleed Zaman, Kayseria utilised its captain’s art education to create fabric that appeared like tapestries and canvas on print. While most took the embellished border and gala route, the brand Kayseria, a scion of a prestigious local textile house, retained its claim of ‘magic in prints’. The lawn explosion this summer saw many new players enter the market and several seasoned ones upping their ante to define their hallmark in the wake of the ‘ designer lawn’ phenomenon.
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