KASHANI is a Toronto based, ethical and forward high fashion brand that revives the purest essence of cultural lineage and history. Led by the designer and founder, Leyla Kashani, this conscious luxury house, practices safe trade principals and holds the artisanal techniques and heritage as the main motto.
Encouraging distinctive ancestral craftsmanship, KASHANI innovates as a particular unseasonal fashion brand. In each of the timeless pieces the history and story of a community is told, is worn and is revered. Always true to the origins, from the most meticulous embroidery, crochet process or overlaying of fabrics, the artistic techniques of workmanship are celebrated and kept alive in the most personalized way.
From mostly remote villages in Iran, Leyla Kashani seeks to save the forgotten artistry by repurposing antique fabrics and traditional techniques into innovative, luxurious, eclectic and sustainable one-a-of-kind wearable creations. The result, a highly desirable Art to wear!
Designing with the highest quality silk or wool blends, and incorporating vintage techniques of Iranian rugs and salvaged crafts, the final hand-woven creations carry the ultimate goal: to reveal authentic beauty and give value to the world’s ancestral and endangered artisanal heritage.
Through my many years of travel and life experiences, I started watching old techniques and priceless old-world crafts slowly disappear into the mass production trends; until one day I decided to roll up my sleeves and be part of the change.
Born in Iran, with exposure and background in fashion studies in France and Canada, I started building on my passion for repurposing antique clothing in private capsule collections and showing in art galleries in Tehran, as well as fashion installations in Toronto.
When you wear Kashani, you are wearing something original with history and design, and now tinting it with your own soul to pass it on, hopefully to the next generation.