Sunny is a designer in Los Angeles. He loves the fluidity and fluency of a saree and believes that when a woman wears a saree, she not only adorns her body but she also adorns her soul. His design ethos is that “simplicity never goes out of style.”
Indrani is a video journalist in Kuala Lumpur. She seamlessly blends east and west by doing the Bharat Natyam steps and Tango, without missing a beat. She has an infectious smile, a youthful sense of the fashion and a timeless sense of the style.
Rupa Gupta: A writer, editor and journalist, Rupa has been in the media for more than two decades. She has worked as Editor with major publications, both in India and abroad. a keen eye for fashion and current trends. Her sense of aesthetics transcends the hype and always finds the true beauty.
Liza Varma is a former Femina Miss India and well known model in Delhi. Today, she is a leading Fashion Choreographer with over 1000 shows to her credit in India and abroad. She is also a member of the Fashion Design Council of India and a Consultant with Shoot Talent Management. Her client list is the who’s who of Indian fashion industry.
Misty is a student in London and has her fingers on the pulse of London fashion industry.
Abhi is a student in San Francisco and showcases sensuous saree pictures.
Kamini is a model in Los Angeles and loves to accentuate the best a saree has to offer.
Probably she is a south Indian Christian, hence the Indian sari in a cream color and a Christain veil. Plus she is not wearing an bindi or typical Hindu adornments.
It is a very pretty picture with the cream sari and bright flower bouquet.
The western/asian mix is probably more beautiful than most others on their own. I really love it, and I am hard pressed to explain why. Not just the vanilla silk color, or simplicity versus the usual riot of jewels and brilliant color. I like it way, way better than most western wedding dresses!! It makes me wish I were very young and getting married – not something I normally want to think about at all!
I think it is simply awful. Grotesque. Ugh. The veil looks like crinkly plastic-most of them do, being synthetic tulle-and its texture is completely at odds with the sari. I cant believe anyone likes this. BUT THEN LETS FACE IT-more fashion horrors are committed at weddings than anywhere else. Why not add a hat, boots, and gloves? Would a wedding ensemble be complete unless you throw in the kitchen sink as well? The sari is fine. She should have left well alone. What ever happened to “take one item off before you leave the house”?
It’s very much possible she is dressed for Catholic Confirmation and not a wedding at all.
I thought of that after looking at the picture again.
She is most likely Kerala Christian, so her outfit of Kerala handloom sari is very authentic and not a Asian Western fusion. Kerala handloom (kasavu) saris are beautiful, with typical cream or natural colour with gold border.
The woman and her sari are lovely but the veil looks like a tangle of mosquito netting.
Looks like a Kerala Christian bride, but strangely enough I do seem to detect a light colored shiny bindi on her forehead. She looks very pretty in her saree although she should have gone with a shorter pared down veil.
She is a kerala christian bride and probably catholic. The veil worn is not representative of east meets west but rather an assimilation of certain european wedding practices. Not all Kerala christian weddings sport the veil. Keralites/malayalees wear the traditional cream/off white saris for most special occassions so it has nothing to do with adopting a style from elsewhere and least of all a hybrid of cultures.
Comment from “S” about the type of sari is correct.
I’d leave the veil off – partly because the rest of her ensemble is lovely as it is and the veil doesn’t add anything and partly because I don’t like th connotations of veiling – women as property, virginity as a matter of public knowledge & gossip and so on. (The young lady in the photo might be like my mother was, wearing a veil because her mother insisted upon it, not because she wanted it.)
I do particularly like the creamy off-white of the sari: it suits most women so much better than the stark white often favoured for western-style weddings.
As a matter of interest, the habit of the bride wearing white at western weddings is relatively recent, I’ve seen black wedding dresses from the 19th century and read of various other colours.
The veil in Catholic weddings in India have a profound meaning. When the woman’s husband ties the tali, her sister-in-law steps up in place of her sister, to assist by holding up the veil. At that point, she is part of his family. I myself do not like the veil, but will have to wear one because of this custom for my wedding.
To each its own… I think she’s beautiful!!!