The Offbeat Sari explores the radical 21st Century overhaul of the sari, shedding a rare spotlight on contemporary Indian fashion for UK audiences. The show presents the sari as a site for design innovation, an expression of identity and resistance, and a crafted object carrying layers of new materialities. Around 60 examples of trailblazing saris from the last decade are shown in an exhibition asserting one of today’s most important global fashion stories, the true nature of which is little-known beyond South Asia. The design explores the shifting social and political contexts of contemporary Indian fashion, removing the sari from traditional domestic environments and placing it in the new urban sites of the festival, the street and the workshop.