Unborn

Unborn is an Indian sustainable, handmade clothing label for women, founded in Koppal in 2020 by Mounica Chitturi. Chitturi, a NIFT graduate and environmentalist who serves as creative director, set up the studio to reconnect clothing with nature and the traditional practices behind it. Its motto, from our planet to your closet, sums up a slow, low-impact approach with no chemicals or bleach. The label makes tops, shirts, dresses, trousers, jackets and mulberry silk sarees, plus scarves and plant dye kits. Collections include Ecoprints, botanical prints such as Lost in Forest and True Spring, and Undyed, a line of raw white pieces like the All Day Shirt and Everyday Pants. Everything is handmade in small batches in Indian villages. Unborn works with handwoven natural-fibre fabrics, including Kala cotton, an organic cotton native to Kutch in Gujarat. Its eco-printing transfers real leaves and flowers onto cloth, and it dyes with plants and natural mordants while reusing the water from the steaming process. The brand aims to create jobs in rural communities and revive traditional crafts, and it sells online to customers in India and abroad.