# KARDO SS26: Phulkari ทุ่งดอกไม้ของปัญจาบบนผ้าทอมือ

**By Onion** · 2026-06-08

## The name on the label

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The label inside a Kardo shirt does more than list a size and a wash code. It carries the name of the person who sewed it. Not the designer. The tailor who cut and stitched it from the first piece to the last needle. One person, one garment.

That is where Kardo Spring/Summer 2026 begins.

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Kardo was founded in 2013 by Rikki Kher, a Londoner who put down roots in New Delhi in 2004. He saw a gap: menswear built from genuine Indian cloth and technique, yet cut so anyone anywhere could wear it. The brand's philosophy is short and direct. It is not where a thing is made that matters, but who made it, and under what conditions. The method is called ONE×ONE: a single tailor owns a single garment from beginning to end.

The collection is titled Phulkari, after the traditional floral embroidery of Punjab. Fields, birds, and the harvest are traced onto cloth in needle and thread. Spring/Summer 2026 gathers handwork from communities across India into one place: Sohrai painting from Jharkhand, ari embroidery from Bengal, wooden block printing from Rajasthan, and hand-spun, handwoven khadi. Each technique brings another set of hands into a single shirt.

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> Cloth that remembers whose hands touched it first.

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That is the heart of this collection. Garments that are not manufactured, but made by hand.

To wear Kardo is to carry the slowness of craft with you, in a world that keeps speeding up.

**Tags:** Feature, Handmade, Indian Craft, Kardo, SS26

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> Source: [onionbkk.com / Onion](https://onionbkk.com/blogs/blog/kardo-ss26)