Login Register
Follow Us

Fantastical fashion

Last week was spent discussing the Deepika Padukone-Ranveer Singh and Priyanka Chopra-Nick Jonas weddings.

Show comments

Aradhika  Sharma

Last week was spent discussing the Deepika Padukone-Ranveer Singh and Priyanka Chopra-Nick Jonas weddings. The outfits that the actresses had worn had come under the piercing scrutiny of the nation’s women, who dissected them threadbare. Enthusiastic opinions were loudly expressed regarding the designers, hairdos, shoes, jewellery and accessories chosen by the two Bollywood princesses during the month-long fashion fiesta.

“What a relief to see Ranveer well-dressed for a change,” Mandy remarked. “He usually displays terrible taste.”

“He uses his celebrity-hood to get away with committing the most heinous fashion crimes — murderous onslaughts on our visual and aesthetic senses,” Sabrina agreed.

“There’s only one person in the country who can outshine him in looking like a psychedelic peacock,” I said.

“Who?” Shobha asked.

“Baba Ram Rahim!” I said, “He’s the ultimate in Swami Fashion!”

“He certainly can give other swamis a lesson or two in sartorial style.” We laughed uproariously.

“Hmm. I feel that while people like Ram Rahim just have a poorly-expressed taste for grandeur, people like Ranveer dress badly because of a sense of inverse snobbery.” Shobha remarked.

“Meaning?”

“Meaning that he probably feels deviance from the norm gives him an enhanced status,” she explained. “The more ‘haws’ he gets, the more celeb power he gains!”

“Talking of badly dressed people, don’t you feel that Rahul Gandhi should get himself a stylist?” Sabrina commented. “Sometimes he appears in a phata, crumpled kurta, at other times in a T-shirt and jeans. At times, he’s clean shaven and at others he’s got a grey stubble on his face. Dowdy, erratic dressing!” Shobha said. “He should learn from his great grandfather or his grandmom or even his father. How impeccably dressed they were!”

“It’s so important for a politician to display consistency. He should realise that steadiness is essential for building trust among the voting janta.” agreed Shobha. “Rahul’s random style neither makes a style statement nor does it signify an ideology. Modi, on the other hand, comes across as a person in control because he’s almost always nattily dressed in the famed Modi kurta and what was once the Nehru jacket but is now called the Modi jacket,” she said.

“Virtually all politicians have distinct styles — Arvind Kejriwal with his mufflers, Mayawati with her bags and suits, Mamata Banerjee with her rubber chappals and cotton saris, KCR, CM of Telangana, in his white shirts and white khadi trousers...” Sabrina enumerated.

“And Laloo Prasad in his unruly white mop!” I quipped.

“Dekha jaaye toh constancy in outfit is equally true of the swamis. Ramdev is always in his saffron lion cloth, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in his flowing white robe, Swami Agnivesh in his saffron turban, Sadhguru’s long kurtas, shawls and saafas and Dhirendra Brahmachari draped in muslin. So typical of all of them,” Mandy agreed. “Leaders’ outfits should be distinct, recognisable and consistent. It adds brand value. Like a logo,” she said.

“Even Radhe Ma wears that strange bridal outfit to create uniqueness!”

“Then, Radhe Ma is to guru fashion what Ranveer Singh is to celeb fashion?”

“Ha! Ha! You could say that!”

Show comments
Show comments

Top News

Most Read In 24 Hours