Where does fashion originate? This is a question that occupies a lot of our headspace at Object. Very often we've found it in villages deep inside India, where fashion isn't seasonal, nor is it something that is taken off. Fashion here is an expression of style, where women sleep and awaken in finery.

Men and women in these villages lend their style (loosely translated as muses in today's parlance) to fashion designers the world over. Our aim is to highlight these people, many of whom claim that their style is slipping away from the very villages that inspire these collections on catwalks from Bombay to Paris.