BISKIT IS A UNISEX CONCEPT LABEL EXPLORING THE INTERSECTION OF ART AND DESIGN. IT WAS FOUNDED IN 2017,BROOKLYN,NY.
BISKIT NOW HAS ITS HOME IN MADRAS, INDIA
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BISKIT was started by siblings Harsha Biswajit and Shruti Biswajit with a vision to create a multi-disciplinary studio exploring the boundaries between art and design. In 2017 they established BISKIT - a unisex concept label that merges their futuristic visual aesthetic with a minimal and functional sense of design.
Seeing how the clothing industry has long been shaped and categorized by menswear and womenswear, they wanted to break this duality by challenging an archaic industrial concept that pre determines the gender of a fabric even before you have the freedom to choose for yourself. In other words, they wanted to give the choice back to YOU to decide what you feel comfortable wearing.
Since the inception, the focus has always been about story telling and it is this that drives the creative process. Everything that comes out of the BISKIT studio is concept driven and always tells a story connected to the larger ideas being explored at the time. Therefore a BISKIT piece is designed to stand the test of time rather than conform to the cyclical nature of seasons.
From 2021, every studio piece is hand made at SPACE BISKIT, Madras, India and is limited to a maximum of 21 editions per style.
- BISKIT. UNISEX. SINGULAR. FUTURE -
THE UNISEX SYMBOL
Inspired by the nature of impossible objects, the Biskit logo seeks to challenge the perception of the viewer by bringing two perspectives into one form. If you look closely, the perspective of the rectangle changes from top to bottom.
The idea of the symbol is to communicate the unisex, singular nature of our design ethos by merging menswear & womenswear into one symbol; one identity.
ABOUT THE FOUNDERS
Can you tell us a little bit about your backgrounds - have you always been drawn towards the creative field?"
In case you don't already know, we are siblings and in short, yes – we have always been creative. We grew up in a family of artists - our father is a cartoonist and illustrator and our mother is a painter, sculptor, and owns her own art gallery in Madras, India, where we spent a lot of time growing up. So we have been training our creative eye from a very young age, which naturally informs and translates into the way we approach our own work today.
HARSHA: I am a visual artist. I work with a diverse range of media - from drawings, new media, photography, and sculpture, often infusing them together in search of a balance between the old and new, natural and digital. I started my creative journey in India and moved to New York in 2012 to pursue a M.A in Digital Fine Art from SVA. After graduating, I stayed on in New York for another 7 years building my fine-art career before moving to Barcelona in the summer of 2019 where I currently live.
SHRUTI: I graduated with a BFA in International Fashion Design from FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology), New York in 2014 and also did a year abroad in Milan at Politecnico Di Milano where I specialized in sportswear. In 2017, I moved back to Madras to start BISKIT.
What was the motivation behind starting Biskit and how did your journey begin?
BISKIT was started as an experiment. It was started as a way we could collaborate together to see how far we could push each others creative boundaries. It was towards the end of 2017 when Shruti had just finished a series of internships at Zac Posen, Isaora and Helmut Lang in New York, and I (Harsha) was in the middle of an Art Residency in France that we decided to collaborate on a project together. While it was still unclear how this would take shape, our shared experiences of living in New York at the same time gave us a common platform to develop a unique aesthetic that merged the Brooklyn vibe with our own background. Our vision was to create a multi-disciplinary design studio exploring the boundaries between fashion, art, and design.
Seeing how the clothing industry has long been shaped and categorized by menswear and womenswear, we wanted to break this duality by giving the choice back to the consumer and thus established our first idea - a unisex concept label.
This is an excerpt from an interview with FTC.
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