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Strange Shrew is a label built on the things that do not fit neatly anywhere else. Founded in 2011 by Shreya Sharma, it makes pieces that are unique and different.
The Training
Shreya Sharma trained at London College of Fashion, then spent years inside the conventional fashion industry learning exactly how it works. She did shows in New Delhi and Mumbai for Lakme Fashion week.
She came away knowing the machinery intimately, and knowing that something was missing from it.
2011
In 2011 she started Strange Shrew — a label that would bring to life the strange and beautiful things she had always wanted to make.
Design that speaks to the rebel within us.
The Work
Shreya's design language sits somewhere between heirloom and undone — familiar shapes worked over in handcraft, vintage cloth, and visible mending. It's clothing that looks finished from a distance and unravels the closer you look.
Classic silhouettes, everything else undone. A shape you recognize, then a sleeve that keeps going, a hem finished in shells, fringe cut from the offcuts of the fabric it hangs from. The drape does the rest — cloth left long, gathered, wrapped, allowed to move.
The handwork is where the label shows itself: vintage lace, appliqué, French knots, fringe made from scraps, mending left visible on purpose. Crochet and macramé made by hand, by women in Goa who work with Shreya directly. From across a room it reads as beautiful. Up close, nothing behaves.
The Result
