In Mayyur Girotra
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Dia attended the Met Gala wearing a custom creation by Mayyur Girotra featuring shola craft. Shola craft is one from Bengal using the milky-white of the Indian cork plant and is predominantly seen in the crowns that adorn the Devi during Durga Puja festivities. Although, nowadays, you can see shola flowers and framed art pieces as well.
The using of the craft to make a gown was so very fascinating. I really liked it.
Update: Turns out they used shola art as an inspiration but used other materials to mimic the effect. Which kind of is a killjoy for me.
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Love! One of the best dressed from India.
Her posture isn’t helping!
The best one from India imo
Appreciate the sentiment but it doesn’t translate well on the outfit and has an awkward drape and fall. And her slumpy posture is making it worse
Her body language ruins the beautiful dress.
The dress is truly beautiful…saw the video and felt her posture was lack lustre because of the chaos of the carpet…she seems to have been asked to move and she looked very crest fallen that she couldnt pose for longer.
Dont understand the appeal to attend these kind of events when we come from a land that is legendary for exquisite textiles and jewels. Why do we need their validation?
The fit and length seem totally off which ruins what otherwise is a lovely
outfit
Shola work?! 0_o really?! The gimmicks people will put out to sell the naive west absolute bull is remarkable.. lol
I just found out it ain’t even actual shola. Just mimicking the look and feel. I also feel duped. Le sigh.
Uggh that’s even worse 🙁
Nothing to write home about this look sans the no shola
Seriously?? Pls add an edit to the original post Payal.
Awww Payal – I feel your pain in that sigh.
But that is ofcourse expected. Real shola is extremely fragile and brittle and won’t survive even the getting in and out of a car, let alone the other vagaries of a red carpet. My exclamation was more for the designer’s pick of shola. Of all the vital craftwork and material at the disposal of an Indian, you pick the absolutely dismal, effete, craftless shola? High ambition for novelty but too lazy for research = low effort gimmick.
I sympathise with her posture because sometimes one can do lots of exercise for that problem and it still doesn’t get fixed. That’s just life, I guess.
She looked uncomfortable and stiff. The concept of the dress was well done.
The kamar dard pose makes it more like Moov ad than Met Gala outing…
outift is meh, as is her expression !