What happens when a fashion house’s memories spill beyond the wardrobe? For péro—which means “to wear” in Marwari, a dialect of Rajasthan—the answer lies at home. Born from nearly two decades of handloom, embroidery and the quiet poetry of the handmade, péro Home turns familiar textiles into objects for living, lounging, gathering and remembering. Its world is tactile and nostalgic, but never precious: Chanderi meets appliqué, gamcha checks sit alongside floral flourishes, and quilts become repositories of time and touch.
How péro Home Brings Fashion’s Craftsmanship Into the Home
Rooted in the brand’s archives and shaped by the hands of its longstanding craft communities, this is less a new chapter than a natural homecoming—where clothes once worn become stories to live with. We speak to designer Aneeth Arora about the memories, materials and craft that bring péro Home to life.
What inspired péro to venture into the world of home?
The idea really began during the pandemic, when I finally had the time to go back to our archives. We had textiles from almost 20 seasons, woven and made across different parts of India that we had preserved over the years. péro has always thought beyond the traditional fashion cycle, so for us, a textile has never really belonged only to one season or one moment in time. Home gave us an opportunity to revisit these textiles and allow them to find another life and context. Over the last five years, we have only managed to revisit about eight seasons, so there is still so much more to explore.
What does “home” mean to you, and how has that shaped this collection?
For me, home is about warmth and love. péro has always been synonymous with love, so bringing it into the home felt like a perfect match. I like the idea of objects that welcome people into a space that become conversation starters and eventually become part of the memories of that home. I always say that all my attention goes into péro, so in many ways péro itself has become my home.
Craft has always been central to péro. How have you translated that language into objects for the home?
The craft communities are the same ones we have worked with through our collections over the years, so there wasn't really a need to create a separate craft language for Home. We have taken our existing textiles and worked with embroidery, appliqué, patchwork, lace and other handmade techniques to give them a new context. There are lighter fabrics from Chanderi and Maheshwar, woollens from Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and Kashmir, cottons from West Bengal, linens from Bhagalpur, silks and ikats from South India and mashru from Gujarat. Rather than treating them as conventional furnishing fabrics, we allowed their existing character to guide what they could become within the home.
The collection feels nostalgic but also playful and surreal. What memories or references informed this aesthetic?
A lot of the nostalgia comes from going back to our own archive because each textile carries the memory of the season it originally belonged to. As a child, I carried a soft fabric doll with woollen hair and a plain pillow everywhere with me. Those things stayed with me, and perhaps that is why dolls and these very soft, tactile objects found such a natural place in péro Home. The collection has this softness and nostalgia, but also moments that are slightly surreal. We have always hidden small details in péro, and that continues with Home. Each piece has a tiny embroidered house tucked away somewhere that you may not notice immediately. There are dolls, playful fabric accents and quilts with hundreds of individually cut and appliquéd flowers. I like the idea that you continue discovering something in an object even after you have brought it home.
What are some of the pieces you see becoming part of everyday rituals at home?
The collection is divided quite simply into Eat, Sleep, Clean and Live or Play, because we wanted it to become part of different moments of everyday life. There are table linens, bedding, quilts, throws, carpets, pillow covers and curtains. For me, the quilts are particularly special. Some take anywhere from two weeks to 45 days to make, and there is one from each range with more than 600 appliquéd flowers, where every petal is individually cut and stitched.
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