IANS Exclusive Interview with Fashion Designer Archana Kochhar on Showcase Indian Heritage Globally

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Mumbai: In an exclusive IANS Interview with Archana Kochhar, a renowned designer, shared her experience of designing for Miss World, showcasing Indian heritage globally. She expressed pride in India's rich textile legacy and its global appeal. Kochhar discussed her work with Telangana handlooms, creating outfits for contestants, and promoting Indian culture. She believed beauty pageants are empowering platforms for women and that showcasing traditional Indian textiles is a celebration, not exploitation. Her designs blend tradition and modernity.  #ArchanaKochhar #MissWorld #Experience #FashionDesigner #ExclusiveInterview #tradition #Trending #BollywoodNews #BollywoodGossips #BollywoodUpdates #BollywoodNews #Bollywood #Bollywoodcelebrity #BollywoodHindiNews #IANS

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00:00First of all, welcome to INS.

00:02Thank you, Ji.

00:03And ma'am, first of all, congratulations.

00:06You have been doing two times Miss World's designs.

00:10So, what do you think about it?

00:13It was a very enriching experience.

00:15I am so happy and grateful that we have done both of us.

00:18And we got to learn a lot.

00:21It was a beautiful experience.

00:23Last year, we made 120 clothes.

00:25You know, over 100 countries.

00:27We made 240 clothes.

00:30So, it was a lot of fun and challenges.

00:34So, it was very nice.

00:36This time, you have designed the outfit for 72 Miss World.

00:40How do you think about this idea?

00:42The government invited us.

00:44And they said that they would want to wear Miss World's final.

00:48The girls wearing the fabric of Telangana.

00:52They wear beautiful outfits in Telangana.

00:57They wear beautiful outfits in Telangana.

00:59And the outfits are made in a global shape.

01:02So, they all over the world appreciate the fabrics.

01:05So, we took the fabrics from Telangana.

01:07And we converted them into silhouettes.

01:09Which were very comfortable for the girls.

01:11Like gowns, saris.

01:12After all, they didn't wear saris.

01:14So, they were very comfortable.

01:15So, they were very comfortable.

01:16So, they were confident.

01:17They were beautiful.

01:18And they could put their best foot forward.

01:21So, we made such silhouettes and such clothes.

01:24And I think the girls looked lovely.

01:26And the government was also very happy.

01:28Telangana do you think about hand room art on the global stage.

01:34How do you think about these people's style of Indian heritage.

01:37How should you do to showcase them in India's heritage?

01:38I think Indian heritage is so beautiful.

01:39I don't think that many of the world has so beautiful heritage in India is in many areas.

01:42I think that when it is showcased in the world.

01:44And that these nice beautiful portraits are in their country.

01:47And that is their country.

01:49They do to see them from Priyanka Chopra's.

01:51So, when they put it in their country, they look so beautiful Indian textiles, so India

01:56looks even more grander, bigger and it's such a happy moment that you get to make India

02:02look more proud.

02:03How much of your designs have made India proud to feel so proud in the design of this platform?

02:13I think a lot of people have appreciated it.

02:16The government of Telangana loved the garments and they were so surprised that all this also

02:20could be done with their fabrics, so they said that they loved it and we have received

02:26so much love on our Instagram, our social media.

02:30So I think people have really enjoyed seeing it and from all over the world, people have

02:33felt very proud that Indian garments can look at par with any Western fabric and look even

02:40better.

02:41Who are the plans to promote Indian hand-in-the-art in the future?

02:46We are going to do a very big show in New York, very quickly and that's why the government

02:51has connected us with.

02:53So I'm looking forward to doing that.

02:55Young Fashion Designers, what advice do you want to give to India's culture and heritage

02:59to the global level of India?

03:02Young Fashion Designers?

03:03Young Fashion Designers, first of all, I want to welcome you to step in a very beautiful

03:08career.

03:09And I want to say that this is a very enriching career where you will get new learnings and

03:15new experiences.

03:17So I would welcome all of them with a positive note and I would tell all of them that some

03:22things are important.

03:23First of all, a lot of people are looking forward to glamour and they feel that this is

03:29all the glamour.

03:30But they don't realize that it is that glamour behind it is a lot of hard work.

03:35So if you want to be successful in this field, then glamour is okay, but you want to be

03:40ready to work behind it.

03:42So that's one thing I want to realize.

03:44Then the second thing I want to say is that our attitude is very important.

03:49So when we deal with someone, we deal with creativity, we deal with it, first of all, we deal with

03:56his attitude.

03:57So if a young designer has a humility and a humbleness, he will go on a long way, so we

04:03want to advise them.

04:04And the last advice we want to give is that we look at what we look at, what we look at

04:08from our lives, our lives are molded.

04:10So it's very important to have an attitude of gratitude so that whatever we get in our life

04:14experiences, we will be happy and happy.

04:17I think that we are inspired.

04:24I think that we are inspired.

04:26We travel a lot, so we get inspiration from travel.

04:29Our Indian culture and Indian arts also get inspiration from our Indian culture.

04:31Our Indian culture and Indian arts also get inspiration from an Indian woman in today's

04:35history.

04:36So I think that if we talk about Indian women, then every woman loves India, very Indian at heart,

04:40but very global in their vision.

04:41So I think that if we talk about it, if we talk about it, then it will be fusion.

04:43So I think that is also our inspiration.

04:47So I think that is also our inspiration.

04:54I think it's very important to have the right balance.

04:55It's very important to have the right balance.

04:56And we try to maintain it full.

04:57I think it's very important to have the right balance.

05:01I think it's very important to have the right balance.

05:02And we try to maintain it full.

05:03I think it's very important to have the right balance.

05:04I think it's very important to have the right balance.

05:05I think it's very important to have the right balance.

05:07And we try to maintain it full.

05:10Do you want to show a traditional Indian textile like a beauty pageant or your

05:17commercial expectation?

05:18I think it's a celebration.

05:20We use a fashion show with clothes in a show.

05:24We have made clothes with the mind and mind.

05:27We wanted to see the girl wearing the dress and she's more beautiful,

05:32what we think about a customer and about a fashion show.

05:35When we do a fashion show, we keep the silhouettes similar,

05:39we match the colors.

05:41We have also shown this with similar thoughts.

05:44It's the same thing that whether we are doing it for a fashion show or for a customer or for our,

05:48because we are doing it with that thought process.

05:51I think they definitely have benefits.

06:04Because when the dress is a PR, obviously, the sales will increase.

06:08When the sales will increase, obviously, there will be a commercial benefit.

06:11Plus, when we have also made the dress,

06:13there are so many fabrics used.

06:15I think it's a positive thing for workers.

06:18So, how many people will know about their sales?

06:23How many people will say about their sales?

06:25Miss World present, how relevant is it?

06:30Do you want to say Miss World today relevant?

06:35Or are you also a strong platform for women?

06:39I think that Miss World has been there for 72 years.

06:47So, if you only see them in the years,

06:49then there will be a strength and an authenticity of that platform.

06:52And I think the girls discovered that they have become,

06:56like Aishwarya Raya discovered here today, she is a legend.

07:00Priyanka Chopra discovered that she is a legend.

07:02I think some girls become their presidents of the country,

07:05some famous doctors become their president.

07:07So, ultimately, this is just one thing in the journey of a girl and her career.

07:11But it definitely helps them in their careers.

07:15As you said to the broader designers,

07:17there is a compliment that you have to say that your clothes are so costly

07:21that they are not able to buy it.

07:23Or you have to do so many designs that they are not able to wear it in your family functions

07:27or parties.

07:28So, what do you say about this?

07:30I think our clothes are maybe a little expensive,

07:34but we use the processes that we use,

07:36in which the siluity changes.

07:41So, those processes are expensive.

07:43That's why the clothes are a little expensive.

07:44But today, the place where India is in,

07:46I think a lot of people can afford our clothes,

07:48and a lot of people are affording our clothes.

07:50India is in a very good place today.

07:52And you know,

07:53when they wear Indian clothes in India,

07:55when it is Diwali or when they are married.

07:58And India has one of the biggest weddings that happen in the world.

08:01And the Indian wedding scene after Covid has got bigger and better.

08:04You know,

08:05So, I think that a lot of people,

08:07the amount of people who could afford clothes before and now,

08:12it's only increased.

08:13I think that every actor or actress,

08:23you try to keep the fashion quotient in your fashion quotient.

08:26And you know,

08:27that behind them,

08:28there are so many teams that show their fashion quotient.

08:31So, they are a stylist,

08:33a makeup artist,

08:34a hair artist.

08:35And there are so many people who have a whole team,

08:38you know,

08:39social media assistants,

08:40photographers, editors,

08:42So,

08:43when they are together,

08:45the whole team,

08:46we all fall in love with that image.

08:49And we see how good they look.

08:51So,

08:52I think they all put in their best foot forward.

08:54And if you see someone's Instagram,

08:56two years ago,

08:57and now,

08:58you will see how much better they have.

08:59So,

09:00it's a process,

09:01and everybody tries to become one step better in the process.

09:03But,

09:04if you don't want a name,

09:05who is the best factor?

09:07I think,

09:08I think,

09:09young ladies,

09:10have a very beautiful fashion.

09:12Like,

09:13Ananya Pandey,

09:14Alia Bhatt,

09:15you know,

09:16the young generation,

09:18Sara Ali Khan,

09:19I think,

09:20they've also given their own tweak to it,

09:22and they're carrying it very well.

09:23And I think,

09:24in the other generation,

09:25I think,

09:26Kangana looked so beautiful in everything she did.

09:27I think,

09:28so many of them.

09:29I mean,

09:30you know,

09:31we've dressed so many of them.

09:32Rakulpreet looks stunning.

09:33to a government.

09:34I think,

09:35Malaika Arora Khan is an all-time amazing person.

09:37So,

09:38I think,

09:39so many,

09:40so many,

09:41so many.

09:42Lastly,

09:43you would like to know that,

09:44in today's social influence,

09:45in social media,

09:46everyone wants to keep their fashion quotient,

09:48and everyone wants to repeat their clothes.

09:51So,

09:52you know,

09:53sometimes,

09:54the actors,

09:55they don't repeat it,

09:57and if they repeat it,

09:58they become a big story.

10:00So,

10:01you know,

10:02textile industry,

10:03and the environment,

10:04is that,

10:05that means,

10:06I think,

10:07if people wear the clothes,

10:08I think,

10:09the textile industry,

10:10is increasing.

10:11It doesn't happen.

10:12But,

10:13you know,

10:14we can show the same garment,

10:15hard time different,

10:16by styling it differently.

10:18So,

10:19that is one of the tricks.

10:20If you change your styling,

10:22and you change the garment,

10:23and you change the garment,

10:24then you can show the garment different.

10:26If you layer it,

10:27then you can show the garment different.

10:29So,

10:30there are so many tricks to the trade.

10:31So,

10:32I think,

10:33once we learn that,

10:34we can make our old garments look new also.

10:35I think,

10:36I would like to say,

10:37young fashion designers,

10:38I think,

10:39I would like to say,

10:40young fashion designers,

10:41welcome,

10:42you are going to be very good in the industry.

10:44You will get a lot from this industry.

10:46You will get a lot of enriching journey.

10:48But,

10:49you remember that,

10:50you have to remember that glamour was very hard.

10:53Many times,

10:54the gaze that people have left,

10:55the gaze of the glamour landmarks,

10:57the gaze of the audience,

10:58the gaze of the standing ambient,

10:59they don't have a look at it and they don't have a look at it and they don't have a look at it and

11:05they have a lot of work if you want to be successful. If you want to be successful,

11:09then you have a lot of work. And I think another thing that I would like to tell people is

11:13that right attitude is very necessary. So if you want to be right attitude,

11:17then you have a long journey. Because ultimately, one person with another person

11:21deals with his creativity and deals with his creativity. So if you want to be in your

11:26attitude, then how will your journey continue? So it's very important that you

11:30keep your attitude right, attitude of gratitude, attitude of humbleness.

11:35One last question was that Ms. Wall was a present here. Ms. England

11:41thought that she had a treat or she had a puppet to make her

11:47fashion designer. I don't think that Ms. England

12:02was wrong with her. I was there and I thought that everyone

12:08was wrong with her. And secondly, this is a glamorous and

12:15means that everyone dress up and puts their best foot forward. At the end of the day,

12:20they also took a part of a tangent. So they also had to realize it. And they

12:25talked about dinner, which I thought it was awkward. So the dinner video

12:28was released. And the dinner video was a normal type. So I don't think

12:33something wrong. But I wasn't there. So I couldn't give a perfect answer.

12:40Because if you look at yourself, you know it. But I don't think

12:44that there was a wrong thing.

12:46I think that if a man wins, then there will be a lot of power for

12:49cause. So it's a process, right?

12:52So it's a process, right?

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