If you know péro, you know nostalgia is practically woven into the seams. Designer Aneeth Arora has always built her world around feeling; quiet, tactile, a little wistful. “Nostalgia, for me, has always been about emotion rather than memory,” she tells currentMood Mag. “That gentle tug you feel when something familiar, even from another world, speaks to your own story.”
For Fall/Winter 25, that world expands north, to Scotland. The collection, titled BONNIE!, draws from tartan, a fabric with centuries of history, clan, and belonging. But in Aneeth’s hands, it doesn’t feel foreign. “Tartan isn’t just a pattern,” she says. “It’s identity woven into cloth. It’s deeply Scottish, yes, but the emotions it holds, pride, resilience, home, are universal. As we
reimagined it through Indian hands, it began to feel like a metaphor for péro itself, a
constant search for connection, for that feeling of home, no matter where you are.”
A Conversation Between Continents
BONNIE! might sound like a story about Scotland, but it’s really about translation. The kind that happens through hands, not words. Aneeth mapped the Highlands through Indian craft traditions: Maheshwari, Mashru, Pashmina, Bengal cotton.
“The translation felt less like replication and more like conversation, between weavers separated by continents but united by instinct,” she says. “When our weavers in Maheshwar began to interpret the tartan grids, they brought in their own rhythm of warp and weft, which naturally echoed the balance you see in the Scottish checks.”
“In Himachal, when we recreated the tartan through knits, it felt almost poetic, those hills mirroring the Scottish Highlands in spirit,” she adds. “Even the tie and dye artisans in Gujarat surprised us; their grids formed from resist dye patterns carried the same geometry and imperfection that made tartans feel alive. It reminded me that craft, at its core, always finds a way to speak a shared language.”
The Journey Inward
For Aneeth, BONNIE! isn’t really about geography at all. It’s a kind of creative homecoming. “I think every péro collection begins as a search, sometimes for a story, sometimes for a feeling,” she says. “With BONNIE!, it became a journey inward. The Scottish ballad ‘Bring Back My Bonnie to Me’ inspired us. It’s a call for return, for reunion. But along the way, I realised that Bonnie doesn’t have to be someone or something external. It can be that part of you that you lose in the chaos of creating, of moving, of growing.”
She adds, “Creatively, BONNIE! reminded me to pause, to find beauty in the process, to reconnect with the joy of making. Personally, it’s about remembering that home isn’t always a place. Sometimes it’s the feeling you carry with you in every thread you weave.”
Home, Rethreaded
In péro’s world, tartan becomes more universal. Greens for the hills, blues for the lochs, reds for kinship. Across India, artisans reinterpret the pattern in their own languages: Kullu knits, Afghan crochet, Gujarat’s dye grids, all layered with péro’s signature beadwork and quilting.
BONNIE! isn’t just about the craft or the cloth, but the reminder that belonging isn’t fixed. It’s made, remade, and sometimes found again in the most unexpected patterns.