IN ROUTINE
Neha Sreejith
From a very early age, individuals are placed within structured systems— schools, institutions, and workplaces—that cultivate routine and expectation. Over time, repetition becomes instinctive, and life is performed through function rather than lived through experience. The collection observes a gradual metamorphosis within the modern working individual, where identity is shaped by schedules, output, and pay cycles. In this state, life is no longer fully experienced but continuously practiced, refined, repeated, and maintained. Moments of disruption are not resisted, but absorbed; order remains intact. Through restrained tailoring, modular elements, and subtle irregularities, the garments express controlled transformation within uniformity existing within the system, quietly shifting without escape.
It is also an ode to art—something that quietly fades in the process of becoming what is expected. In systems that prioritise function, passion is subdued, and expression becomes secondary.