Wearing MĒRU is like collecting timeless elegant artworks. Over the years, my collection has grown, the pieces have endless possibilities, dressed up or down, with jeans, or heels, to an exhibition opening or a music festival. MĒRU taught me to fall in love with silhouettes and shapes, detaching from color palettes and prints, but really appreciating form. Hints of our South Asian heritage peer through the garments with so much subtlety. Wearing the pieces is itself a loaded statement- politics, pride, the indigenous, androgyny, modesty are all interplaying. But most of all I have appreciated the process- small batch, sustainable, working with very particular fabrics and supporting the local tailoring communities. There is no emerging brand I want to support more.