“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.”
The Hermitage Collection is a glowing tribute to The Golden Age of the Romanovs who ruled Russia for 300 years. This was the age of expansion, the age of enlightenment, the age of opulence and grandeur, the age of superstition and mystery, and the age of tragedy and death. This was the age of Tolstoy, Pushkin, Dostoevsky; the age of Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Rachmaninoff.
From the muffled mysteries of the Hermitage Nilofer Shahid brings to life with sensitivity of a maestro re-creating the splendor and grandeur that once was. The silhouettes and the colour palette are inspired by the opulent architectural nuances; the intricate detailing is borrowed from the magnificent jewellery of Faberge and the Crown Jewels, the rhythm of the fabulous couture ensemble sway to the waltz of the Swan Lake. Handcrafted with love, embellished with forgotten fables, stitched with songs of the Cossacks.
This extraordinary collection is testament to the artistic genius of Nilofer Shahid and we can proudly say that “she was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantment.”
The Romanov court, in motion. Watch the light move across the Fabergé-inspired handwork.
See the pieces in person, with the team that made them. Bridal fittings, made-to-measure and consultations by appointment at 35-B Aziz Avenue, Canal Bank, Lahore.
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