If you’ve been on Instagram lately, you may have spotted a giant quilted heart resting in a rocky landscape or a lone blanket drifting away as if it had somewhere important to be. These are not surreal daydreams. They are péro announcing that, after 16 years of dressing people, it is finally dressing their homes too.
The Delhi-based label founded by designer Aneeth Arora has launched its first-ever home line, péro is home, which makes its debut today at the AD Design Show 2025 in Mumbai. It opens the door to a universe that is tender, tactile, a little whimsical, and unmistakably péro. But beyond the soft sculptures and wandering quilts lies a collection grounded in Arora’s core love language: archives, craft, and the magic of handmade things.
Of course, she isn’t the first designer to look beyond clothing. No one wants to just be a fashion brand anymore. Globally, every major fashion house—Versace, Missoni, Hermès, Giorgio Armani, Fendi, Roberto Cavalli, Gucci, and Dolce & Gabbana—has a thriving design maison or homeware line. In India, you can now buy wallpaper and plates designed by Sabyasachi, pet furniture by Shivan & Narresh, carpets by Tarun Tahiliani, and even bathroom fittings by Manish Malhotra, proving that the worlds of fashion and home design have only become more intertwined.
For Arora, the seed of the idea had been sitting patiently for years, but the Covid-19 pandemic finally allowed her to look back. With the runway temporarily on pause, she found herself surrounded by a decade’s worth of péro textiles, leftover yardage, and archival fabrics that had been carefully preserved because they were too beautiful to discard. “During the pandemic I finally had time,” she says. “I went back to the textiles we had woven over 10 years. They were beautiful archival pieces. Fashion does not allow repetition but home does.”
What followed was five years of slow making and the birth of eight soulful ranges, each drawn from péro’s beloved past seasons. ‘Locked in Love’, the spring/summer 2021 collection with its Harajuku-meets-Indian-textiles, has mashru, gabardine, and hand-folded florals and now reappears as airy curtains and soft bedding. ‘Vibgyor’, the autumn/winter 2022-23 collection inspired by the folk-painted cottages of Zalipie, resurfaces through cheerful checks and florals that brighten dining tables and cosy corners alike. Altogether, the line falls into four gentle categories called Eat, Sleep, Clean, and Live or Play, offering everything from table linen and quilts to throws, carpets, pillow covers, curtains, and little fabric accents that make a home feel hugged. And there’s a category that is delightfully unexpected (but also very expect of péro) in this home line: dolls.
