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In the last 49 years, Malvika Singh, 66, publisher, Sarees WholesaleSeminar magazine, has collected over 700 saris. “I was nine when I received my first sari. It was a white Chanderi with a red and gold border in aslizari, with red butis all over, a gift from LeelaMulgaonkar (social activist),” she says.Singh started wearing saris regularly after she turned 17. She sourced plain Mulmuls with thin borders from Mau in UP, and bought khadis from handloom outlets, “all cheap, cheerful and very reasonably priced,” she says. Printed cottons from Sanganer and Bagru, Ajrakhs and Leheriyas, cotton Bandhinis, Venkatagiris, Chettinad cottons and Kanjeevaramsare all a part of her wardrobe. After Singh got married, her mother bought her a sari from each of the great weaving traditions of India: Ikats from Orissa and Andhra, Chanderis, Banarasis, Tanchois, Paithanis, Jamdanis and Kalamkaris.

Singh is wearing a handspunkhadi sari with a black border and red selvedge, that she bought in Hyderabad. It was in 1948 that PrabhaAtre,Visit this site to get more info 83, classical vocalist of the Kiranagharana, wore her first sari: a plain cotton sari gifted by her mother. Not the kind of sari she would choose for herself. “Kanjeevaram, that’s my weakness. But we couldn’t afford it then,” she says. Growing up in a middle-class family in Pune in the late ’40s, the sari was the only alternative to the “petticoat-blouse” teenagers would wear then. Seven decades on, she only wears “white Kanjeevarams with coloured borders. They are a part of my identity,” she says. Atre prefers to buy her own saris. In her collection, there is one that she holds dear, even though it’s no longer wearable.

“It’s a white sari with a small border I wore to a Ganesh festival in 1980 in Pune. I have worn it to almost every big performance since,”Wholesale Bazaar she says. Before The Lunchbox became a huge international success and made actor NimratKaur a household name, she had two Cannes Film Festival outings. And both times, she chose saris. When she made her red carpet debut at Cannes in 2012 for Peddlers, which was screened in the International Critics’ Week section, she borrowed a Sabyasachi sari from a friend. She returned to Cannes next year for The Lunchbox’s premiere under the same section. This time, she decided to go shopping. The first thing that caught her eye at Sabyasachi’s south Mumbai store was a black-and-white lehenga sari on a mannequin, with a flamenco flare. She instantly knew that’s the one she wanted. However, the price was beyond her budget.

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Growing up in Hyderabad, Sarees WholesaleTabu remembers her maternal grandmother wearing a Venkatagiri crisp cotton sari with a temple border every day, and changing into Kanjeevarams for weddings. Tabu’s mother, on the other hand, was a complete contrast with her printed georgette and chiffon saris in solid colours with khand blouses. Tabu followed in her footsteps: she wore a fuchsia chiffon sari in a song, Raahonmeinunsemulakaathogayee, in Vijaypath (1994). The first time she draped a sari on screen was in her Telugu debut, Coolie No.1. “That too was a fuchsia sari,” she says. In her forthcoming film, Drishyam, she will be seen in an indigo Kalamkari sari. The actor doesn’t collect saris but has a few special ones. “At a red carpet event, there’s always a debate over saris or gowns, but my outfit is determined by my mood. I always have a red and a black sari in my wardrobe, they are my go-to choices,” she says.

For the Screen Awards this year, Tabu wore an AbuJani-SandeepKhosla red sari and diamond jewellery. “I wanted to keep it simple, Visit this site to get more infored by itself makes a statement,” she says. Ina Puri has a collection that boasts of saris from weavers across India: from Orissa to Chennai, from Banaras to Bengal. She took to wearing cotton saris in school and continued to do so during her college years at Kolkata’s Jadavpur University. “The influence of Shantiniketan was so strong that wearing saris came naturally to me,” she says. While Bengal cottons dominated her wardrobe back then, now she has weavers designing commissioned pieces. The recent acquisitions include a Byloom cotton from Kolkata. “It has a beautiful charcoal base and a thick vibrant border. It’s very dramatic and nuanced. It is pure cotton, I don’t touch synthetic,” says the 56-year-old, who stays away from designer saris.

“They make me feel cold. My profession should reflect in the way I live, there has to be an aesthetic connect,” says Puri.Wholesale BazaarOne of her most treasured possessions is a PattanPatola commissioned to Vinayakbhai from Pattan. Introduced to her by artist Amit Ambalal, he took more than a year to design the garment. “It is a museum piece, in shades of deep red, cream and black,” says Puri, who has also been working on restoring heirloom saris from her collection. “The idea of a sari going extinct does not make sense to me, I wear one everyday,” she says. Some years ago, she approached Sanjay Garg of Raw Mango to restore her mother’s wedding Banarasi. “He painstakingly cut the small peacock motifs and put them onto another maroon/red saree. That too is very dear to me,” says Puri, who is hoping to pass her collection to her daughter-in-law.

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