# KARDO FW26: เสื้อหนึ่งตัว ช่างหนึ่งคน ชื่ออยู่บนป้าย

**By Onion** · 2026-09-29

## A Name on the Label

Turn a Kardo garment inside out and you find one person's name. Not a factory, not a lot number, but the tailor who made that piece from the first cut to the last button.

Everything in Kardo Fall/Winter 2026 is made the same way, one garment to one person.

Rikki Kher grew up in London. His mother was a seamstress who made his clothes until he was eleven, and his father worked in textiles. He studied business at NYU Stern and spent years in fabric and sourcing across several countries before starting Kardo in the early 2000s with one sewing machine and one master tailor, who still works there today. The workshop is in Noida on the edge of Delhi, the team is now around a hundred people, and the first Kardo store opened in Delhi's Lodhi Colony late in 2025.

Kardo's cloth does not come from large mills. It comes from craft communities across India, often with a name attached. Kher has said that what gets called slow fashion is simply how clothing has always been made in India: through time, skill and people.

Kardo's Autumn/Winter 2026 is titled DAFTAR, and one thing is clear in the drop Onion received. The shapes are all familiar to Western eyes: a Harrington, an MA-1, a work jacket, an overshirt. The cloth is not. The MA-1 is a herringbone handwoven at Khamir Craft in Bhuj and hand block printed in the same region. The Luis shirt is khadi from Udyog Bharti, embroidered panel by panel in ari stitch by Md. Ashraf, a master embroiderer from Bengal. Even the smallest thing in the drop, a bandana, passed through the hands of Sufiyan Khatri in Ajrakhpur, Gujarat.

> Shapes everyone knows, in cloth you know the makers of. That is what Kardo has always done, and this season is no different.

The first drop at Onion is four jackets, a shirt and an Ajrakh bandana: silk, handloom cotton, jacquard and khadi in the same delivery.

A garment with its maker's name inside feels different to wear, even if you cannot quite say why.

**Tags:** Feature, FW26, Handloom, India, Kardo

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> Source: [onionbkk.com / Onion](https://onionbkk.com/blogs/blog/kardo-fw26)