If your wedding mood board swings between temple bells and city skylines, Silk Dialogue from Ekaya Banaras might just speak your language. It’s the Banarasi, but not as you’ve known it. It’s a line built for the global bride, collecting memories and fabrics from more than one culture, for the bride who moves between cultures and ceremonies with the same ease as she does between silhouettes.
The collection looks at Banaras through a cross-continental lens. Think classic silks with cranes, peonies, cherry blossoms, and dragons woven into the weave—motifs that nod to Oriental art but still sit firmly on Indian looms. The lineup includes mainstays like the sari and lehenga, but the construction leans sharper. Jackets with Mandarin collars, long-line coats over Indian separates, and blouses with knot-button closures give familiar silhouettes a cross-cultural update. The tailoring borrows from East Asian structure, but the fabrics retain the softness and drape that keep Banarasi silk wearable.
Colour, too, plays translator here. There’s teal, fuchsia, and turquoise for statement days, but also ivory, soft gold, and fern green for quieter moments. The tones feel fresh and wearable and still look like an ode to the classic reds. These intense colours are frequently juxtaposed with the shimmer of the metallic zari work and occasionally anchored by classic, soft neutrals like ivory and beige. While the cuts of the garments strategically integrate East Asian tailoring into Indian forms.
