Colour and Chaos with Textile Designer Kangan Arora

Having moved to London to study at Central Saint Martin’s, it was homesickness that led surface pattern designer Kangan Arora to create her debut collection, inspired by the colour and chaos she had left behind in the Punjab. “Not for nothing is pink known as the ‘navy blue of India’,” she says. “I have some magical childhood memories of Holi, the festival of colour. Our faces would be stained magenta or bright blue for days…