Traditional Charm

The young designer and stylist who has in the past dressed up the likes of Vikram Chatwal for his traditional wedding and got singer Malkit Singh and politician and anchor Navjot Singh Sidhu to don silk turbans,designed the traditional Sikh wedding accessories for Kundra. “Kiran Bawa,Shilpa’s close friend who hosted the wedding at her home wanted to gift Raj Kundra a traditional Sehra. That’s when she got in touch with me,” informs Sahiba,who works out of a studio in Sector 7 and has a workshop in Mohali. For the Shilpa-Raj wedding,Sahiba was given just one brief. “All I knew was the colour of his clothes,” mentions the stylist who has a penchant for Sikh fashion. “For Raj’s Sehra,I used a single emerald cut ruby stone in the centre and worked around it with coloured crystals and zardozi. The strings in the front were all pearls,” she explains as we view the wedding photographs. The Sehra looks perfectly co-ordinated and so does the Paisley Kalgi he wore on his turban. “Though the wedding was in South Indian tradition,Kundra followed the Sikh style with his choice of dressing,” points out Sahiba who dressed up the kirpan in silk along with traditional zardozi and stone work. “The handle was a traditional elephant head further styled using pearl latkans or clusters,” adds Sahiba who unlike most young designers of today has made tradition her USP. “I feel when it comes to formal dos and weddings,we must flaunt our traditional look,” she says. We agree!