On February 14, 2026, Queen Rania of Jordan visited the Chanakya School of Craft in Mumbai, where she was briefed on the school’s training programs and its efforts to preserve India’s rich artistic heritage. The Queen was welcomed by Karishma Swali, Founder and Creative Director of the Chanakya School of Craft, and Nehal Shah, Director of Chanakya International.
Established in 2016 under the banner of Chanakya International, a global textile and embroidery house founded in Mumbai, the Chanakya School of Craft is dedicated to advancing cultural sustainability and holistic growth through education and skill development. The school strengthens women’s creative and economic autonomy while preserving India’s artisanal heritage and nurturing the arts.
On the evening of February 14, 2026, Queen Rania attended a roundtable conversation hosted by Ms. Isha M. Ambani at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre in Mumbai. Isha Ambani is the Director of Reliance Retail Ventures Limited, the retail unit of one of India’s largest conglomerates, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL).
What a spectacular embellished jacket. The amount of time to create that masterpiece, wow. The white outfit is very nice, low key I even like the bow at the neck of the blouse.
ReplyDeleteMy brain is interpreting the embellishment on the jacket as a crusty skin disease. Uh oh. Could be the quality of the photos?
ReplyDeleteI’m seeing the same! Colour and style “ok” but the embellishment is reading as “crusty skin disease” or “unknown reptile”.
DeleteI am sad you see it in this manner, since the art, amount of time and talent to accomplish this is missed. Perhaps a better phot would highlight the design better.
DeleteYes a very strange embellishment - could be how it shows in the photo and not in reality as you say. Too crusty and weird for my liking. The jacket would be quite nice without it. She always looks great anyway but I don’t always love her garment choices.
DeleteIt strikes me as crusty too … maybe dead corals ? Not a soft and beautiful decoration. Very odd!
DeleteWell, I would take a skin disease like that any time. 🙂 I like it. Perhaps not the most traditional flowery thing but beautiful, artistic and interesting precisely because of that.
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The jacket colour is pleasant but agree re the “embellishment” which sets off my trypophobia.
DeleteThe embellished jacket is beautiful, the light color of the jacket, though makes it hard to define the embellished work, it might be my eyes! The accompanying white pants are a really good fit, love this style, perfect fit, length and not baggy. Her bag is a gorgeous color, slightly darker in shade as opposed to the jacket. The white shoes work in well.
ReplyDeleteThe white silk blouse looks divine, elegant and feminine. Her pants look okay, more width. Love her two tone bag, adding a bit of color to this outfit. I love her hair up style in this instance.
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Great blazer, she looks fantastic.
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The jacket is nice but I think there’s a hoodie attached There are drawstrings hanging from both sides and the shoulder in the first photo looks like the start of the hood. Love the separates and handbag on the second outfit but the belt is distracting. A thin belt would have worked better.
ReplyDeleteThe light blue jacket is nice. I like the mix of business look, modern hoodie element, summery colour and elegant material.
ReplyDeleteBut the white blouse and trousers are not my taste. The floral, one tone pattern and the bow looks a bit old fashiond to me.
The Queen’s top garment in the first pics is so weird to my eyes - it seems to be a combination of blazer and hoodie - and I love it! The embroidery is gorgeous on that soft seafoam green and it works beautifully with the white top and well-fitting trousers. Their neutrality lets the jacket shine.
ReplyDeleteI do find one note that’s strange to me: the lining of the hood looks like a brown and yellow stripe. I’m wondering why the designer (or the Queen?) chose that.
That embellished jacket is a bit too ambitious to be a very special jacket with a wow-effect, but it fails, because oftentimes more is less. Now I remember the right word for it: pretentious. - The white blouse is nice, but I would have chosen another fabric for the pants, too much shine.
ReplyDelete女王陛下は工芸学校の訪問に合わせて、手の込んだ刺繍のフーディージャケットを選んだのだと思います。
ReplyDelete私には、雪山の風景を刺繍してあるように見えますがどうでしょうか。
きっと学生たちは目を凝らして見つめたでしょうね。
Yes I totally agree with you. Wearing this jacket to a craft school would be very eye catching. I love this jacket
Delete地模様の白の絹生地はインドの製品かもしれません。
ReplyDeleteインドは世界第 2 位のシルク生産国として知られていますね。
白一色の装いは高貴な印象です。
Can’t say I like this. Seems overly decorated and not in a harmonious way.
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Totalement déconnectée des réalités quotidiennes dans son pays et en Inde avec des vêtements hors de prix, non adaptés aux circonstances ni aux lieux et que je ne trouve pas si seyants que ça.
ReplyDeleteTrès bien écrit! Je suis totallement d’accord.
DeleteOui, I totally agree with you, incredible. I am beginning to feel sorry for her,
Deleteshe lives in a fantasy world, not only her clothes reflect her misguided focus but also her distorted face, and I am being polite, I could be more precise.
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Superbe veste même si le fond des broderies aurait mérité d’être plus en couleur ; je la lui envie quand même !
ReplyDeleteQ.Rania is wearing 2 beautiful outfits, both exquisitively made. The pale blue/sea foam jacket is a hoodie that has been elevated by a longer length and embellishments that must have taken many hours the execute, a work of art. Pretentious, it is not, imo! The trousers are a perfect fit and the white shoes the right choice.
ReplyDeleteChic is how I would describe the white blouse and trousers, in what appears to be jacquard silk , and wearing her hair up, which she rarely does completes a polished look.
The blaser !? yes it raises questions, I don't like the collar/the top. Color is nice ...
ReplyDeleteThese outfits are really not to my taste; they come across as tacky. The whites might have been ok without the strong overlay of pattern. The mint green jacket is most strange with the awful patterning glued? on. Less is more.
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