From The New York Times:
When Afshan Durrani and her husband, Nusrat, left India in 1990, they set their sights on a modern future: he would pursue a career in music at MTV in New York, where they settled in 1995, while she attended the Fashion Institute of Technology, designing dresses with a dash of punk. But Ms. Durrani, above, who grew up in Kashmir, found that India’s traditions held sway over her imagination. During a trip home for a wedding, she was astounded anew by the embroidery on the wedding regalia and aghast at the working conditions of the craftsmen who made it. So in 2002, she founded Lost City Products, a company that now employs 125 artisans making fabrics using centuries-old techniques in Lucknow, the center of the Indian crafts industry.
