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A new seven part series on BBC World News, Collaboration Culture explores the exciting
conversations that take place when leading personalities from fashion, dance, music and art are
paired together to combine forces on a new, innovative project. What happens when you bring two
fashion designers from different parts of the world to work together? Or when a leading Bollywood
dancer is paired with an Arab-American Classical Composer? What happens when a British artist gets
together with a Ghanaian coffin sculptor?
The series travels the globe to Mumbai, Ghana, Trinidad, New York, Dubai, lim_a and Tokyo pairing
people together to create one-of-a-kind global cultural collaborations.
In the series premiere on 30 June, Argentinian fashion designer Martin Churpa travels to Mumbai to
collaborate with Indian designer Shilpa Chavan, known as 'little Shilpa', to create a series of
beautiful and unique outfits that will marry their two cultures perfectly.
Martin Churba began his career as a photographer, and now has a number of multi-diScipline fashion
design studios worldwide. Shilpa Chavan is a milliner, stylist and designer whose avant-garde designs
have been championed by the likes of lady-Gaga. The two journey around Mumbai to rummage
through markets, experiment with materials and share in their own love of art and colour to create a
true collaboration.
Martin Churba said: "When I first received the call from BBC World News it felt like an award; to
choose somewhere in world that inspires me, to go there, meet an artist and collaborate together,
was like a dream come true. The experience was more than I had imagined - India, Shilpa, filming in
the streets of Mumbai, it was all a great experience. And as a gift, in a couple of weeks we will have
the TV programme, like a travel diary, through which I can relive it all again."
"What was interesting about this project was that I started out by wanting to introduce my city of
inspiration to Martin, and instead ended up getting inspired from the way he looked at my city," says
Shilpa Chavan, "It was fun to be able to take Martin through the entire journey of my process of
working - looking for inspiration, collecting raw materials, bringing them back home and having a
look and creating collages and looks for styling a shoot. By the end of the process we were all