“As someone with highly sensitive skin, I know the frustration of beautiful clothing that irritates, restricts or simply does not feel right. That is why I have personally ensured that our designs are a joy to wear — soft, effortless and comfortable.”
- Jigyasa Jolly
Sculpted Corsets
"A corset should not poke you."
When one does, it was made for a measurement rather than for a body. Two women can share the same waist and still need entirely different corsets. What separates them is proportion - how the waist sits against the ribcage and the hip, and how long the corset has to be to work with both. We cut to that ratio rather than to a number on a chart, because the length of a corset should be decided by what a body asks for. Our ready sizes are drafted on Indian proportions and reach as far across that range as sizing can. But sizing is defined by standard measures, and a corset is the garment least willing to compromise. Where it matters to you, have yours made to your own measurements. That is where everything we know about this goes.
Structural Hourglass Blazers
"Most blazers made for women are boxy."
They fall from shoulder to hip in a single line, and the waist is only suggested by a seam rather than made by one. An hourglass blazer is built the other way: shaped at the shoulder, drawn in at the waist, released over the hip, on a block developed for Indian proportions over five years of fitting. The shape is held by what is inside the garment - internal backings and reinforced layers, refined until the front closes with near-zero folds - rather than by heavy cloth. That matters here as you get the structure without the weight, and without a jacket that can only be worn three months of the year. India is a tropical country. Even a structured blazer should be wearable in one.
3D Appliqué Patches
"Appliqué began here as a technique and became the way we speak."
We started with patches made without a backing — threads intertwined until they hold their own shape, with no fabric underneath to support them. The motif stands on its own. From there it has grown into everything: backed and unbacked, hand-embroidered, three-dimensional elements built onto the surface of a garment. What holds it together is not a single method but an intention. Bold, and still elegant. Present, and still restrained. It is how a Modo Caldo piece is now recognized across a room.
Tulle
"In India, tulle is read as net."
For us at Modo Caldo, it is the structure behind most of our designs. It is among the most luxurious fabrics a couture house can work with - layered, mapped, folded and set by hand, it holds shape and often carries movement. We can build it to stand on its own, or collapse softly when you want it to. It is what our sheer corsets are cut from; it is where our sheer skirts found their form. It is how a garment gets volume without weight, and what a voluminous skirt takes its shape from. We would like tulle to be understood the way we see it here. That is a long project and the one we have decided to take on.
The Mastery in Precision, Detail and Artistry
"Corsets, Blazers, Appliqué, Tulle."
Everything this house makes begins in one of the four. Corsets and blazers are where the expertise sits - the structure, the proportion, the five years of fitting that let a garment hold a body instead of pressing it. Appliqué and tulle are how we speak - thread that stands without a backing, layers that give volume without weight. One is what we know. The other is what we say with it.