Somehow it always goes back to the 1990s these days. Kailash Poojary remembers them well. Before he became designer, and founder of the atelier, VV Exports, Poojary was a student in the city. “Any shoot for a fashion magazine happened in the lanes of Colaba and [Flora] Fountain. Walking down those streets, and looking up at those buildings, was always inspiring to me,” he says. Now, those structures find new expression in the atelier’s latest exhibition, Echoes of Bombay at 47-A in Khotachi Wadi.

Kailash Poojary (standing) coordinates with a team member on the embroidered recreation of the map of old Bombay