The Voice of Fashion
What is your most marked characteristic?
Curiosity.
Tell us a few words your friends would use to describe you?
Impulsive, loyal, crazy, businessman.
Which three words would you use to define yourself as a person?
Unorthodox, critical, activist.
Where would you like to live if you were not living in Delhi?
A house surrounded by a forest, mountain and river.
When have you felt most vulnerable?
During heartbreak.
Which three words would you use to define your work?
Design, innovation, culture.
High point of frustration with the Indian fashion industry?
It is not merit based, I wish it could be more democratic.
Why don’t you like showing regularly at fashion weeks?
Fashion is just one sector, I am interested in the spaces between—including art, design and culture.
What do you regard as the lowest depth of fashion media in India?
I come from the desert: I see it as a lake without water.
“Fashion is just one sector, I am interested in the spaces between—including art, design and culture.”
How would you define your relationship with controversy?
I am comfortable with it.
You have a relationship with the sari. If that is true, is this personal or a commercial relationship?
100 per cent both.
Which fashion collection of a fellow designer have you most admired?
Aneeth Arora’s work.
Which talent would you most like to have –from those that you don’t?
I wish I could sing…
A theatre, film, musical, performance that you have been unable to forget?
Me as a child, participating in the Mahabharata.
Your most extravagant purchase?
A work by artist Richard Serra.
What is your greatest fear?
To live alone.
What is your daily motto?
To continue to solve through design, be it systems or aesthetics.
Would you take Ozempic if you put on lot of weight?
Yes
What is your greatest regret?
I know I won’t have all the time to do all I dream of.
What would your epitaph read?
Here lies the father of India’s design renaissance.
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