Chanakya Ateliers’ global collaboration with Dior has brought forth the culturally rich craft of Indian artisans to global recognition and fame. Fusing fashion with empowerment, this collaboration is an outcome of the coming together of powerful women from different times and places — Dior’s creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri, African-American artist Mickalene Thomas, the accomplished mixed-race women who served as Thomas’s muses, and finally, the women at Chanakya Ateliers.