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The curatorial projects Datta has undertaken have been informed by their practice and foreground care as a connective thread and principle.

Per Explosive Fashion: "His collections have hovered over a fine line between Fashion and art… If you know Kallol Datta even a little, you know his designs are an art of self-expression. They have exhibited at TRI, Kolkata, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre; Aomori, Beirut Design Fair, Centro Cultural La Moneda; Santiago, India Art Fair; New Delhi, Museo Franklin Rawson; San Juan, National Museums Scotland; Edinburgh, Nomad Monaco and Victoria and Albert Museum; London.

His writings have appeared in several publications such as Verve, Vogue and Elle among others.

Datta is interested in clothing practices from North Africa, West Asia, the Indian subcontinent and the Korean peninsula. Their practice reflects upon reconstructing, repurposing, and restructuring donated items of clothing that hold memory, episodic events, and history, to negotiate larger questions about work and production, of labour and use, cultural sustainability, and of ideas revolving around research as production.

"At the same time I acknowledge that I can operate in this manner because of privilege and the choices I've consciously made because of the same. Residency and SKE projects, Bengaluru. As always, his clothes are a brooding reaction to the current zeitgeist (some would say, an extension of his personality)."

Kallol Datta's design aesthetic hovers on the fine line between fashion and art.

Institutional dictate isn't his thing… Though he mentioned that the collection was a work in progress… it was refreshing to see some experimentation that will prove irresistible to his fans!"

Kallol Datta moved away from runway shows in 2017 and exhibited a series of textile installations at Experimenter as part of the exhibition ‘Random Access’.

Their artistic and curatorial projects are driven by community, acts of resistance against structural inequalities, shared processes of healing, and radical ways of knowledge building.

They had solos Random Access (2017) and Volume 3 Issue 2 (2022) at Experimenter, Kolkata, and has been part of residencies at KHOJ International Artists Association, New Delhi and T.A.J.

To work on projects and create clothing that makes me happy and fulfilled."

Kallol Datta diversified into art in 2017.  Eponymous fashion label "Kallol Datta 1955" was launched in October 2007 and since then an extreme enthusiasm and provocation is visible in his collections married to exceptional technique.

In his own words 'a magpie when it comes to dressing, the garments made under the label reflects these tendencies and incorporate elements from a vast cultural reference.' The House's heritage is willful enough that you'd imagine Kallol Datta indulging his magpie sensibility to his heart's content.

From prints as radical as bar codes, baby pacifiers and jail stripes in his spring summer 2011 collection to a five-layer jacket with knots at the neck and a genocide dress in his autumn winter 2010 collection, Datta's designs push the conventional boundaries of fashion. 

Per Vogue: "The crux of Datta's design process involves dissecting the relations between body and fabrics… he has experimented with native wear and reduced it to its contemporary best.

Kallol was the curator of the inaugural edition of Kolkata Queer Arts Month 2023 and was the interlocutor at the State of Fashion Biennale 2024, Arnhem, 2024.