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Woven Roots

A heritage-modern womenswear brand reframing Bangladeshi craft for a global wardrobe.

Type
Brand concept · solo
Discipline
Brand strategy
Audience
Diaspora + European quiet-luxury

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Overview

Woven Roots is a brand concept I authored: heirloom Bangladeshi textiles and silhouettes translated for a contemporary, internationally-mobile customer. The work sits at the brand-identity layer — positioning, audience, visual language — before the first stitch.

Context

South Asian craft is too often flattened into 'occasion wear' on the global market. Woven Roots refuses that frame and treats Jamdani, hand-block and embroidered pieces as everyday luxury, not costume.

Heritage textiles, contemporary cutQuiet-luxury positioningDiaspora-first audience

Approach

  1. 01

    Authored a positioning statement, tone-of-voice and audience persona built around the South-Asian diaspora and Europe's quiet-luxury buyer.

  2. 02

    Defined a tight product universe — drapes, separates, considered evening — that lets craft lead and silhouette stay restrained.

  3. 03

    Mapped competitor whitespace against existing South-Asian and European heritage brands.

  4. 04

    Sketched visual identity: typography, palette, art direction notes.

Outcome

A complete brand dossier: positioning, visual identity and audience strategy, taken to the point where a first capsule could be briefed.

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