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Boito by Richa Maheshwari weaves Odisha’s timeless tales into modern fashion | The Fashion Scoop, Ep 31

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Discover how a serpent and lotus sari from Odisha weaves poetry into fabric through a complex pre-loom technique.

It starts gently, almost like tea. Priyanka keeps the room easy as she welcomes Richa Maheshwari, checks the Boito name, and follows the brand back to Orissa's art, culture, and textiles. There is some real pre-show pressure in the background too. Richa is getting ready for Bikaner House from Bangalore, coordinating from a distance while artisans come in from Orissa. You can feel that small scramble before something goes live. The conversation works because it stays personal. Richa does not talk about heritage like a label pinned to a dress. She talks about stories, memory, and what it feels like to grow up near a past that still has a pulse. She admits she was not a history child. Marks mattered, the right questions mattered, and engineering sounded like the practical road because it meant fast money. That opens the sweeter part of the episode. School history, for her, was names and dates. Her grandmother's stories made the older world feel close enough to touch. Fashion becomes the way through. Boito's work sits somewhere between research and instinct, where a textile or motif can carry a tale without getting stiff. Priyanka asks clean, direct questions and lets Richa move through childhood, academics, artisans, and design in her own rhythm. There is useful brand talk here as well. Richa says bigger canvas pieces, especially jackets and statement pieces, are getting stronger feedback than thin petite dresses. So the next chapter may be a family of jackets, with more room for the stories Boito wants to tell. Warm, slightly messy, and more interesting for it.

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Boito's Odisha-rooted textile story is told with steady focus and a clear sense of craft.

Boito's Richa Maheshwari keeps the focus on Odisha's art, culture, and textiles, and the conversation stays anchored in that world. It moves through the practical strain of preparing a Bikaner House show while working from Bangalore, with artisans from Odisha on site, then…

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