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Slaves of Fashion: Indian textiles, new artwork and French colonial historySingh Twins

Slaves of Fashion: Indian textiles, new artwork and French colonial history

It was in January 2014 that I first met The Singh Twins. They had conceived a project for a number of new artworks that would explore the history of Indian textiles and, having read my work on the French colonial presence in India, wanted to discuss British and French rivalry in India before 1799 as well as the role that Indian textiles played in revolutionising European fashions in the eighteenth century.

Posted on: 9 May 2018