To make sure that she has looked at everything that you've got her, she's open to taking suggestions.
It just looks like it's no big deal that I'm wearing a ball gown you know it's not my wedding but I'm wearing a ball gown and it's no big deal because she made it look so easy
She had so much experience you know be it with fashion, she was way ahead of her time in terms of understanding style and fashion so I've learnt a lot from her.
So her instant suggestion was 'will you go to Delhi tomorrow morning?' and I'm like 'Wow!', I mean like why didn't I think of that
I just had to pray for those three days that everything that we've done is just going to work smoothly meaning there won't be any rejections from his side and-
Hello everyone my name is Aaina Mehta and welcome to Pinkvilla.
Joining me in a conversation is Eshaa Amiin. Hi Eshaa. Hi.
So nice to have you, welcome to Pinkvilla. My pleasure!
To start off I want to ask you when was the first time that you actually discovered your love for fashion? And how did you get into this field?
So fashion is something that I knew that I wanted to get into right from around the age of six because my mom noticed like a certain pattern in most of the drawings from my art and activity classes.
I typically would try to draw like women from magazine covers and try to kind of you know sketch the outfit that they are wearing. Styling is something I had no idea, I would ever get into even after I graduated from my fashion school and
I kind of switched into styling after about three and a half years of doing designing and there was no looking back. You said that you started in the designing and then you went into styling, you have a label also of your own
So at such times, it can get a little difficult to manage all of it at once and it can suffer the efficiency of probably one sector or part of it. What are the challenges you faced to be productive when it comes to each sector?
It's very important to be organised you know in order to be multi-tasking what is very important is that you should be disciplined and organised and that's exactly the key to how I'm able to manage multiple things like I...
I do my styling bit, where I'm styling celebrities I'm also say suppose I'm working on a film at the same time, so you divide your teams differently you make sure that nothing overlaps.
Now coming to our main part, we have this Pinkvilla Style Book, we've some of the best creations!
About this look for starters. This is a beautiful Karishma Kapoor look, that's right, you've styled her for the longest time and I think- Yeah eight years, eight years! She's like one of your oldest-
She's one of my favourites what I love about her is she's so elegant and she's so sophisticated and she loves experimenting like she's always open to looking at more styles looking at more she's-
She makes sure she has looked at everything that you got her, she's open to taking suggestions, and this one especially you know actually one of my favourites, I'll tell you why
So this was for, I remember for the Lux Beauty Awards and that typically you know when you see pictures of Lux Beauty Awards the next morning, of the event, you'll see everyone wearing pastel colours, pinks ivories, baby pinks and like you know
flamboyant flowy gowns and that's what typically what one would wear for an event so what I love about Karishma is that she loves taking a risk and this is one of those, this has been one of those moments where we've taken a risk, it could be a hit or a miss. It's definitely one of my favourites with her that
You have it on your Style Book, I'm pretty impressed.
You've been styling Ishaan also for like a- For a while, yeah, and this one I remember is also very special.
Press launch of 'A Suitable Boy' in London way before it was released here so I remember it was winters in London, we obviously had to give him something completely covered and typically we've seen a lot of people do say tennis sneakers or
white sneakers with more casual resort kind of suits but somebody doing in a more formal, extremely formal event like this was interesting, so this definitely is one memorable look because of the way it kind of came together
So this I remember was from Deepika and Ranveer's Bombay reception, so it was this beautiful gorgeous finale gown from Atelier Zuhra collection and um
you know what I like about this is it is definitely an over the top elaborate gown but you know Khushi just made it so effortless with like a messy braid and absolutely no jewellery so you know for anyone who says -
it just looked like 'it's no big deal that I'm wearing a ball gown' you know it's not my wedding but I'm wearing a ball gown and that's no big deal because she made it look so easy.
You know talking about Khushi Kapoor, I have a look of Sridevi Ji over here that you've styled. So she was one of my all-time favourites and I'm not saying this today, I've said it even while I was working with her on multiple interviews.
She had so much experience you know be it with fashion, she was way ahead of her time in terms of understanding style and fashion so I've learnt a lot from her, not only about ways of working but also about being an amazing human being
She was so down-to-earth, so humble and she was so hardworking so I- You know I'll tell you about this look, this was something that we created right from the scratch like right from deciding the silhouette to a flared jumpsuit right from selecting the
colour to the swatch to you know to creating the outfit, I think she was involved with me in every step of it. This ended up being her look for that special song that she appeared in the movie 'Zero' with Shah Rukh, yeah so
I remember that we were working on this for a long time and suddenly it was her look for this song and to me, this is very special also because this is her last film appearance so for me this definitely-
has a lot of emotional value, yeah a lot of emotional value but I'll tell you what you know there are so many moments that I've had with her which have just made me think that wow this is how one should be so hardworking so into what you've
You know she was such a perfectionist, I remember that one time we were styling her for an ad and uh we-
We did a round of fittings, this was like say around 9-10 pm at her house and then she was like, you know it was like North Indian middle-class housewife kind of a look
We couldn't find exactly that vibe that we wanted to achieve and her instant- And there wasn't enough time to order something from somewhere and it will get couriered and then it would reach us so her instant suggestion was-
'will you go to Delhi tomorrow morning?' and I'm like 'Wow!', I mean like why didn't I think of that so I remember we're sitting at 10 pm, took an early morning flight I went to Delhi picked it up from places like Delhi Hat and Hauz Khas village and all of that
and met her in the evening like the very next evening I met her and we got it right and she would always appreciate hard work which you know a lot of people say that you know styling is such a thankless job
You guys work on weekends you guys work on whatever, uh but you know people a lot of the times, uh people we've worked with forget to appreciate and thank us for the kind of effort that we put in but she's one of those people who always thanked and appreciated.
And coming to our last look is this that Pooja Hegde wore- Oh, I think it was Filmfare South or something where she was receiving an award okay and...
It's such a summer colour you know what I mean it's not a red carpet colour, a corset cut, a very flowy piece something that you would do typically in you know an ad where in the day where you're like you get a lots of-
So this again was something non-evening red carpet but she pulled it off so beautifully, I remember it was a Gaby Charbachy and this was one of those very impromptu kinds of events
It was around 6-7 pm in the evening, on an evening when she told me that 'listen I have this red carpet event tomorrow in Hyderabad, will you take an early-morning flight to Hyderabad? I have this event and then I have like 3-4 looks
that I need for promotions and so it was literally an overnight sourcing that we did and we, you know went there and it all just worked out so...
I cannot miss asking you when you worked with Akshay Kumar in 'Singh is Bling' and Mr Bachchan also for a few ads- So you know not many of you know that my first celebrity, I styled was Saif Ali Khan so it wasn't like you know
I was always styling men and women both. Mr Bachchan was probably the only star so far that I've been a little starstruck or nervous about working with I've never really been nervous on any shoot but
I remember we were shooting about six ads in a span of 3 days which was already quite a bit and it was my first time of working with Mr Bachchan and there were no fittings there were no trials and we had to
We had stitched and customised all the looks so you know he literally would wear some thing and jump straight in front of the camera and start shooting
you know so there was no time for me to even say that oh you know wait, can I just buy more time go and alter something and come back?
I just had to pray for those three days that everything that we've done is just going to work smoothly meaning there won't be any rejections from his side and thankfully everything worked out so...
And what was your experience with 'Singh is Bling?' I'll tell you why it was interesting is a. first movie, the second I you know-
I didn't really have too much knowledge about the Singh culture so for me it was so much of learning along with working on the film, researching on various kinds of 'Pagdis' you know
There is a regular style then there is the traditional style then there is like the 'Dumalla' style which is the warrior Pagdi, you know the warriors would wear that kind of Pagdi and then there's like a
Patka style, which is more casual when you're at home sitting or sleeping you know that's what you would wear.
So now coming towards the end of our interview we have a last segment before we let you go.
I'm gonna give you like a few names, a few tags and labels and you need to tell me who's the first person that pops in your head okay! So the airport look star.
Karishma Kapoor. The red carpet queen? Sonam Kapoor
Always 'atrangi', Ranveer Singh I think yeah. Someone blissful and peaceful- Saif Ali Khan
Less is more- Hrithik Roshan.
I am going to give you a few cricketers now. Okay! And if you could probably give them something to style or style them a certain way how would you do that? Okay!
So the first one being Virat Kohli. I think a sharp tuxedo.
KL Rahul. Fun, smart, casual or some off-beat formal looks with him like not the usual colours some really fun play of colours and interesting-
yeah with the tattoos and all I think he'll like fully pull it off. Hardik Pandya. Definitely R&B and you know the whole hip hop culture, I think no one does it better than him.
MS Dhoni. With Ms Dhoni, I would love to experiment with his athleisure looks I think there is so much more that can be explored there. Rohit Sharma. Wow!
With Rohit Sharma, I think you know just keeping it very classy and simple just keeping it very safe elegant and sophisticated. Yeah, he gives out that vibe that's the vibe.
Okay, lastly the last five tags that I'm going to give you are based on your experiences on working with celebrities, the fussy or the particular one. Particular would be Karishma.
Okay. The one who is easy to work with- Sanjana Sanghi. Someone who always likes bling- bling! I think it would be Divya Khosla Kumar, yeah, she loves her bling.
yeah, I did an interview with her recently she was like I love wearing colours like you give me colours I don't want to go monochrome like colours and bling, yeah you give me colours I'll wear it all the time.
Someone who's not really into fashion but like you know they agree with whatever like- I think that would be Neeraj Chopra, he's such a gem like he's so open to suggestions
The one who's super confident like "give me whatever I'll pull it off." That would be Ishaan Khattar like very confident in anything you give him, and he pulls it off. That's right!
So this is how we come to the end of our interview. Thank you so much Thank you so much for having me, I had a great time being here, and we'll see you soon. Bye.
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