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After its last year’s collaboration with Japan’s iconic brand Hello Kitty, Péro, a 15-year-old Indian fashion label by designer Aneeth Arora, has now teamed up with British luxury department store and brand Liberty London for its spring-summer capsule 2025. Titled Flowers Flower, the collection is deeply personal to Aneeth and reflects her love for legacy.
Launched in Chennai on Friday, at fashion boutique Collage, the edit brings together iconic fabrics from Liberty London and Péro’s rootedness and love for Indian craft and textiles.
“Dating back to 1875, there is this old-school charm about Liberty London’s prints. We have been working with flowers too and Liberty London is all about those ditsy flowers. I felt that makes us a perfect match, and we decided to work with some of their classic prints,” Aneeth says.
Liberty London’s fine tana lawn cotton, described as a cotton that behaves like silk, is often dotted with flower prints — forget-me-nots, daffodils, peonies and speedwell. “For this collection, we are working with the classic Tana Lawn textile that has strong legacy, and we did not want to overpower the floral prints by using very bold textiles. The Indian textiles we have used with these prints are basic, handwoven textiles from different parts of India,” she says, of the elements that make up the garments in the whimsy collection.
This includes Chanderi from Madhya Pradesh, mashru stripes from Gujarat, stripes and checks from Maheshwar, silks and solids from the South of India, and cotton from West Bengal, Aneeth says. This is a departure for Péro, where the main line often features bright influences like tartans.
In Péro’s signature flowy, androgynous silhouettes, the capsule has shirts, dresses, tops, jackets, skirts, pants and shorts. Liberty London’s signature floral prints are layered with embroidered beadwork, fabric origami, tassels, appliqué, patchwork and custom wooden buttons.
Aneeth says, at heart, she feels like Péro is becoming more childlike with time. “Nothing is a limit for us and we don’t have any inhibitions. When we started, we were working with a lot of constraints, and, over the years, we have become open to things; The brand as well is evolving in such a way that nothing seems impossible now,” she says, adding that the brand’s collaborations with Hello Kitty, where it channelled a ‘cottagecore kawaii’, and now with Liberty London, allows it to experiment and craft without rules or constraints.
“Collaboration with an iconic brand like Hello Kitty or even dreaming of working with Liberty prints now seems possible, and something we are enjoying. I think, the brand has become mature in the way we deal with materials, but it has also become more free in terms of dreaming and knowing that if you dream you can achieve,” says Aneeth.
Latha Madhu of Collage calls Péro an ‘enduring’ brand, a word Aneeth says is a beautiful description. “We do timeless clothing season by season, so yes, I relate to this. Be it Chennai or any other place in the world, we are consistent in the kind of design language of the brand even though we experiment with diverse themes. There are classics that we keep repeating; some of our shapes, textiles and silhouettes are always a constant,” Aneeth says.
This, Aneeth says, is probably why people come back to Péro: “I feel that the word ‘enduring’ resonates, and season after season, people resonate with what we are offering to them, in spite of having such drastic changes in themes.”
Flowers Flower is now available at Collage, 6, Rutland Gate, Nungambakkam.
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