Sabyasachi Mukherjee isn’t blue blooded, but he is, indeed, king and connoisseur of Indian textiles and handlooms. Dipped in nostalgia, the designer’s clothes are an extension of his personality.
With this meeting, I have surely developed a man crush on Sabyasachi Mukherjee. He is enigmatic, wise, has clarity of thought, is astute in business, longs for the past, and is so much more. There isn’t much about him that wouldn’t stimulate you to be your best. He recalls one of Oprah Winfrey’s inspiration classes, where she famously said: “Always take pride when people say you are full of yourself. When your cup is full and overflowing, only then you can share what you have with others.” He wears that like a mantra on his sleeve and is a powerhouse of talent, effortlessly exhaling energy in all directions.
“I give a lot of myself to people. I go to work around 8 in the morning, I come back home around 12 at night. I work 365 days a year,” he says, as he gets comfortable at an upper wing of his majestic flagship store at One Style Mile, Mehrauli, in Delhi. This floor stocks some of his meticulously crafted menswear kurtas, fitted jackets and bandhgalas, churidars and pyjamas. Sabya has just finished a gruelling photo shoot for THE MAN, followed by another half hour for the concluding episode of Season 7 of his television show Band Baajaa Bride. Taking off his signature black bandhgala jacket after the shoot, and sitting back, he says, “I’m so relieved. Now, this is the real me. You’re lucky for me. With this interview, I am ending my excruciatingly tight schedule of the last six months. I am all set to take a break in the US.”
Travel, he admits, is the most important source of inspiration for him. His mind is like a camcorder that constantly records things around him. He quotes William Wordsworth’s lines from Daffodils: ‘For oft, when on my couch I lie / In vacant or in pensive mood / They flash upon that inward eye /Which is the bliss of solitude…’
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