“I was no more than 10 or 12 years old when I attended a wedding, and all these aunties were wearing purples and greens. It made me think, you know, why is this combination so common? Looking back, I realise how Madhuri Dixit’s iconic look had become a trend,” Neha Saluja, design head of Pink Fort, recounts. From local markets to winter weddings, Hum Aapke Hain Koun’s lehenga choli and heavy choker was a moment in Bollywood’s fashion history.
“Gone are the days when people would visit malls to look at hoardings and billboards,” scoffed the designer. The reviews for the recently-released sports drama Mr and Mrs Mahi may not have been as expected, but Janhvi Kapoor definitely hit it out of the park with her fashion choices during the film’s promotion. From wearing a baby blue sari with a cricket field stitched onto the pallu, a red and white striped sari with cricket balls lining the border, and a six-yard resembling a pitch, to accessories with motifs like the stumps and gloves, the actor beautifully added elements from her movie to her off-screen looks — making fashion critics and champions — both take note.
Advertisement In fact, her outfits were so convincing that the actor reignited the conversation around method dressing , despite not being the first or only movie star to have banked on this element of storytelling to create a buzz around an upcoming release. But what exactly is method dressing? “Simply put, method dressing is the art of giving a pur.
