Overview
- The collaboration was publicly announced this week as a multi‑year creative partnership that lets Sabyasachi draw on The Met’s 5,000‑year holdings as source material for new, marketable designs.
- The inaugural chapter is a high‑jewellery collection rooted in Byzantine art that will debut on Sept. 15 at New York Fashion Week and then be sold through Sabyasachi’s New York flagship, other stores and select retailers.
- Every piece in the first collection was conceived, developed and handcrafted in India by Sabyasachi’s network of master artisans, with reported prices ranging roughly from $2,500 to $100,000.
- Individual designs are explicitly linked to named Met objects—examples include wrist cuffs inspired by 3rd‑century Roman sarcophagi and pendants drawn from Roman funerary reliefs—rather than being museum replicas.
- The Met said the deal aims to reframe works from antiquity through contemporary making, and Sabyasachi framed the project as a way to elevate Indian craft from a behind‑the‑scenes supplier role to visible creative authorship, with future chapters planned to expand into accessories and clothing.