Indian fashion designer Manish Malhotra on his journey in the fashion world

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Indian fashion designer Manish Malhotra on his journey in the fashion world. Celebrated costume designer Manish Malhotra on what fashion means to him after 25 years in the business. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv

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00:00It's actually a long journey, it's 25 years.

00:14To me as a costume designer, I started 25 years ago and it was all of 23 years to work

00:19in a boutique and just love Indian movies and I thought that if I have to make a name

00:25why don't I get some fashion and styling into movies.

00:29My work got really popular and I launched my own label and it's been what, 10 years?

00:35This year is actually 25 years to costume design and 10 years to my label.

00:42Years ago in the 90s when Bollywood was changing, Indian movies were changing, I introduced

00:48a lot of western-ish silhouettes in Indian wear which became really famous with the youngsters

00:53all over the world.

00:54Because when it was cool it was Manish Malhotra who did the costumes, right?

00:57The weddings and everything and I think that, so weddings is where Indians spend, wedding

01:07is where, which is all about Indian couture.

01:10I love opulent clothes, I love opulence, I love grandeur and to me, I mean if you ask

01:15me that would you prefer couture or two-prep, I would prefer couture.

01:19For me, fashion is not pretentious, fashion is something to be enjoyed, it's style more

01:30than fashion, it's something that you are, you like to do, your honesty towards that

01:36is something that is most important to me and to me I would never pretend to be or do

01:42anything that's not organically me.

01:44As a person, I want to be relevant, I want to connect to the audience out there, I don't

01:49want to make garments which people just look at and say, wow, very nice but it's not me.

01:53To me the relativity is very important, otherwise it's just in the dark, you're sitting at home,

01:58you're thinking, wow, you're making such a creative thing while no one's even understanding

02:01it.

02:02I don't look at myself as this, oh my god, what a big artist, what a big genius, what

02:05a big all of that, no.

02:06I look at myself as somebody who loves to do what he does and I think when people wear

02:12my clothes and feel good about it is something that I've achieved and that's what gives me happiness.

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