Hello everyone my name is Aaina Mehta and welcome to what's in my wardrobe. A show
wherein we give you a closet tour of your favourite celebrities.
For today’s episode we have someone who's an
amalgamation of an entrepreneur, an artist,
a model, a fashion designer and recently a mother as well
She's none other than the gorgeous Gabriella Demetriades so let's go.
Hi
Hi, I’m good. How are you?
Very good
And welcome to Pinkvilla, Gabriella.
And the closet is lovely as usual, it’s huge. I am very curious already to know what’s in store.
So, Gabriella, you tell me as I said in my introduction, you're playing multiple roles at the
moment and it's just been two years since you have Arik how has that been going on with
your brand, with you know your hobbies your work how are you managing all of it?
I guess like the first priority right now is obviously Arik so everything else sort of goes on the
back burner and then there was a lockdown and all of that so actually you know during the
lockdown I got to spend a lot of time with him at home because before that it was a lot more
hectic with shows and you know shoots and everything and now, I’ve sort of got into
the flow of being able to balance both I’m not sure how but it's happening.
So, with your fashion label and your interest for you know designing and stuff how did you
discover that I need to channel my creativity when it comes to fashion like why not any other
subject? Why fashion?
So I think fashion was something that I was always interested in you know I grew up around
it my parents actually in the haberdashery business, my mom studied fashion design, she was
a designer she had a very small label while I was growing up in midway label and my love
for fashion really started then and I think that's actually why I got into modelling so it wasn't
the other way around and I always knew that I was going to be doing something in fashion
whether it was a brand or styling or and I tried all of those things before I launched Demi
So now for the main part let’s check what's in your closet.
What would you like to see first? Any
Let's start from here.
Okay we'll start from here so
Just please first of all excuse the mess I've just packed my bags for London
So, I strangely enough for somebody that lives in Bombay have an obsession with winter
clothes so I would say like 70% of my closet like there's a whole area in there that's actually
just my jackets and jerseys and I really love winter clothes.
So, I have a lot of vintage stuff in here as well because as you know I’m obsessed with
anything thrifted or vintage so I have some jackets like from the 60s, from the 80s then I’m
also a big, big leather fan so I have like leather jackets in all different styles. This is a Cooper’s
leather jacket that I think I picked up in Paris a while ago
it's like a men’s jacket so I like to oversize things, layer
And then I also got this really cute jacket which is I think oh yeah this is this is thrifted. So this is like an
old biker jacket with the sleeves cut off so this
So, you’re also into thrifting like this
Yeah, yeah majorly
A lot of people don’t like second-hand shopping, they don’t like thrifting but I felt like I
would rather do that than you know shop these mass brands that do a lot of damage to the
environment and you know a lot of other things so that was my little help back towards the fashion.
There's no really like order as to the closet I mean there is
kind of so these are party dresses which
Seems like super glam
Yeah, so this is but this has been resting now for a long time because mama’s been not
attending any parties but I just got this super cute top I don't know when I’m wearing it or
when I think I’m wearing it but it is from this brand called The Poster Girl and I really love it
I just think it's super fun and cute I’m obsessed with this
colour right now I think everybody is obsessed with the
Green is the new Black.
Yeah, I can't even show you how it works it's so complicated but it’s like basically like one of
these and I’m going to wear with these purple pants I don't know when I’m doing this
Tell me something this is very unlikely your style
I know so okay so I’ll tell you this whole section like even like something like this which is
euro and I really love it but i've never worn it. I buy these shiny, pretty things and then
I normally just let them sit in my closet like this
So, I love like really good knits and track suits and vests and t-shirts and I think that like
Arjun and I both share a passion for that so whenever we’re abroad like we are obsessed with
like buying the best t-shirts that we can find more than all of this right now I don't know
when the last time was that I bought something you know super dressy or fancy
So, oh this I love.
It's a really cool animal print.
Yeah, it's a vegan leather which I love so it's not leather and it's this brand from
Los Angeles, Meow and they do these really cool you know corsets and coats as well I just
love a statement coat because if you want to just wear something super
casual plain like a little black dress, boots and then put one of these over it's an outfit
So quickly
So, Gabriella tell me something are you into the Instagram homegrown labels because
that’s happening so much like, we have so many brands, local Indian designers have you
tapped into that market, bought something?
I love to support local labels especially in India so actually during lockdown I did a whole
segment of supporting local where I posted about local brands and if they wanted to send
products they could but it was just more about getting the visibility for them out there and
actually these very, very cool pants that a local brand sent me from Delhi. We will find the name
for you so you can add them afterwards but I really love the print and I think they’re very fun
you know they're Indian but they’re also you can dress them
up in like a sort of non-traditional kind of way which I love
It's very quirky.
Yeah, exactly just with a cool white top or you know denim jacket I think it's a great
statement piece like I said I love those one-off statement pieces that just elevate an outfit.
I'm really loving this printed jeans trend right now so I’ve picked up a couple like
statement printed jeans I love these which I think are super, super cool
It seems like you're into prints a lot lately.
I am.
I actually have always been into prints but it's not like I wear them in my everyday life or I
love like you know the glitz and the glam and the feathers and the sequins but I you don't get
to wear that all the time so what you see me in normally is like this because that's my comfort
zone but I definitely do like to play around with prints and
textures and you know different kinds of fabrics especially shiny ones.
And of course
Yeah, and this is a serious mess right now and I think 90% of my bags are packed in those
bags for my trip but I will show you some of my older favourites because they haven't been
packed or actually some of the newer ones are here too.
Like we were discussing green
So, this is, I don't know what it's called something about a tube or something it's the one of
the new bottegas but I was just obsessed with this colour and everybody was doing that mini-
Jody so I thought I would try something different and I think it's really fun and its definitely
statement so it I feel like this colour also goes with kind of
whatever you're wearing like let's try it on your outfit right now.
Yeah, I think it's a lovely colour as I said
Exactly, exactly and it's cool because you can wear it in multiple ways as well so you can put
this in and you can wear it like that with the string which I quite like.
Shoulder bags again, there's another shoulder bag so this is one of my all-time favourites so
this I love we’ll just keep we'll use you as the bag model today.
Because it's just it’s so like light and easy and you can wear it with everything and you know
for me the best thing about my job is one of the things is
second-hand clothing brand that I have VRTT.
Okay so this is my favourite part of the closet I think and this is the shoe space.
Definitely my favourite part of the closet.
So, there's a whole bunch of heels that don’t get worn because I actually am definitely more
of a flat-sneaker person but I love heels and I love boots I have an obsession with boots as
you can see that side is basically just boots. So, if I see an outfit even if it's a great outfit if the
shoes don't match then I feel like it really ruins it so I used to wear a lot of heels post Arik so
these are one of my favourite pairs Attico they’re actually launching in India soon and I just
think they're really fun, they do really fun heels like really crazy colours and textures and you
know they’ll go great with even what you're wearing right now and I just love the colour.
These are Valentino I've not worn them because like where do you wear these is my question,
they're more like art so I’ve kept them in my cupboard I will wear them one day I hope
maybe if I dress up as like Wonder Woman or
Superwoman for a Halloween thing but I just love them I think they're super cool
As you said they are art like so they just they just stay here
Do you still wear boots in India do you get the opportunity to?
I make the opportunity because yeah
Yeah, exactly is you know like so even now for my trip I've got you know like 15 pairs of
boots in my bag and it takes up half my space so I’ve had to
leave like all the essentials like the boots are going
And I’m you know very curious to know ever since I’m in this closet are you one of those
who would steal Arjun's clothes and probably style them up?
He steals my clothes actually no jokes yeah, I do.
So I’m the person that like I’ll be like you should wear this of mine it looks really cool on
you and I want to style everybody and you know that's how I end up losing half my closet
because my friends never return anything and but like Arjun is like he really like loves his
stuff and doesn't really like to share so I just have to then steal his clothes which I do so there's
a couple of like jackets of his that I've definitely you know
moved from his side of the closet into mine now.
So I've curated those fan questions and I've put it here so you can just pick and answer.
If I can't read the username, Deeksha that's easy. Do you dress according to your body type?
Interesting.
Okay so I think I used to do this a lot where I was very conscious about my hips and about
my bum because they were slightly you know bigger than normal model size and you know
during my modelling career I would get a lot of you know like you have to lose weight on
your hips, you have to lose weight on your thighs so I became a bit obsessive about like
disguising my hips and thighs and then when I stopped modelling I realised that my hips and
thighs are normal and that modelling industry standards of what hips and thighs should be is
totally not so yes I used to dress for my body type and I used to try and you know like
accentuate my waist and not show you know like too much leg but now I just wear whatever I
like to wear and I think that if you are confident in your body no matter what shape or size
then anything goes right.
Okay this is from radhika6789. Rate Arjun’s style evolution.
Okay so we have actually prepared a few of his pictures
that we'll show you which you can like just rate so I’ll show you
Nice question Simran I mean Radhika
Arjun's going to be very, very happy that we're rating him.
Okay so yeah you can just swipe right.
This suit actually I have stolen and I've worn in a shoot so I definitely fancy this style it's
great, it's classic. I love a white shirt. I love a pinstripe suit he's kept it minimal I like the hair it's really nice.
Yeah, I mean this is his standard look right? This is his go-to jeans a t-shirt and white sneakers.
Yeah, which I love I think that you know for it shouldn't be too complicated for anyone for
men for women whoever I think you should just be easy with what you’re wearing.
Maybe I would have done a different colour t-shirt.
Again, interesting, nice chappals. I don't think these are these haven’t come into play
since we've been together but yeah, I like this look I love a white crew neck on a man I think
that it's one of the sexiest things, just the crew neck and
jeans and so this is 10 out of 10 for me maybe not the shoes.
Current look.
This is not current anymore.
I know yeah and actually you know what it’s crazy how something so opposite to what your
natural hair colour is can suit you and it really did suit him you know I like I was even
tempted to go try some blonde up myself but yeah, I think I love this look.
You know but the fun fact about this is if especially for Indian audience if you go blonde with
your hair you get usually, celebrities get a lot of backlash but the love that he got
I know he really did but you know I think also I have to give kudos to I think Alim who had
done his hair he got the colour so right because you can also go really wrong you can get that
like yellowy colour or you know like an orange and he got this like really beautiful platinum
which I love and it was fun you know having a blonde in my life for a bit.
Let's go for a green one and we have isha176.
What is the most expensive thing in your closet?
I don't even know that's just okay let me think maybe a piece of jewellery I think would be
the most expensive. I have, sorry dad invested a lot in my handbag collection. So, I think
maybe my handbags would be the most expensive thing in my closet or boots actually if I
tell you about some of the boot but yeah, it's
You feel me but luckily you can thrift and you can
resell so you don’t feel so bad anymore.
I think prettyflowers_diya we already answered this question for you but my favourite
pair of shoes currently I bought these J W Anderson shoes which I love but like a lot of
people don’t like they have this like massive gold chain on them and they’re flat which I love
at the moment and they were just a great summer shoe and because I was in Europe now for
summer I got to wear them so much so that would be currently my favourite shoe but I have
this pair of Isabel Miranda black high boots which I absolutely love and I've worn so many
times so I think those would be favourite.
So last question we have from shakthi_ssk that says your most worn clothes?
Probably my gym clothes.
They're the things I always look at it like I see my washing and it’s just gym clothes
coming back I’m like don't I wear anything else? But you know mom life, work life you're in
your gym clothes and you work out and then you’re wearing them for the rest of the day or
you're wearing some kind of athleisure so I think that or I have these vintage Levi’s that I've
had forever and I love them and they have holes everywhere and like the buckles are falling
off of them but I’m never going to get rid of them until they
literally fall off me so I think those would be my most worn.
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