Purleez …what shaming? Lol…sabya himself has skimpy blouses and deep neck ones in his collection …point is, he dosent claim to be making the saree “cooler” by doing so…it’s just a stylistic choice ..
…I said bra blouses, synthetic fabrics , blingy aesthetics and sloppy drapes (ie messy unstructured pleating) are not needed to “make the saree cool” for the younger gen ….
The saree and is and will always be cool…it dosent need to be “bollywoodized” into the above stereotype for it to be cool….its an age old garment and diff communities and traditions drape it differently (with or without blouse) ..no issues there ..
but if they are gonna insinuate that they somehow “made it better” because of their sexier take on it …that’s a whole lot of bs .. that aesthetic does not equal cool or young …that’s a very narrow and limited way of thinking (what’s the opposite of s**t shaming? Prude shaming?)
The “respectability” discourse is not abt saying don’t wear skimpy sarees …it’s saying that “ur not making it cooler” by skimpifying it …it’s not showing respect to the existing garment and its heritage ….coz “they” seemingly brought it back in fashion with their sexiness 😒…pfft …
And my regard for Sabya and Gaurangs sarees is to do with the fabrics they use, their regard for Indian weaves which most of my generation would not have known abt had it not been for them…
What MM does now (work with Indian weaves like patola, uppada etc) ….Gaurang and sabya did it decades ago …his misconception that he is pioneering the saree or making it accessible to todays world is stupid to say the least
This still a whole lot of saying the same. The stylistic choices are "not" sophisticated or elegent because that's not how we wore it.
If more people want to wear sarees with bras, that's as acceptable and 'respectable' form of saree. It is a common cultural entity that can be interpreted however the wearer wants it.
Women were wearing handloom sarees with bralettes when I was in college and even before that. Karan Johar speaks a lot of shit to grab headlines, that doesn't mean sarees can be gatekept.
Tbh, I hate sequins and unsustainable fabrics so MM is not my man. But Sabyasachi being an obnoxious gentrifier of indian sartorial heritage ("all Indian women should know how to tie a saree") while collabing with a fast fashion giant like H n M is something. These people don't renumerate handloom weavers fairly so whatever they are self-attestedly doing to 'revive' Indian weaves is laughable.
+ Most of our generation wouldn't know Indian saree weaves without Sabya et al? The guy who has homogenised all Indian bridal fashion with a goti-pata lehenga?
A generation or two before us were still wearing region specific bridal fashion. Ever since dude sort of marketed himself as the arbitrator of bridal taste (with band baja bride), he himself has had no respect for regional weaves lol.
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