The devil’s in the details
The Hindu : y>Kiran Uttam Ghosh has turned 15 in the fashion industry. That’s quite something in a world where it’s all dazzle, sizzle and then quickly fizzle, writes BHUMIKA K.
Photo: Bhagya Prakash K.CODING IN THE DIVA CHROMOSOME Kiran Uttam Ghosh
M>y husband, a fanatic golfer, has this joke. He met another golfer who asked him what his wife does. And when he heard the answer, the fellow golfer said ‘Even my wife’s a designer!’,” laughs the wiry Kiran Uttam Ghosh. It may be a joke, but it’s as close as it gets to reality — today everyone you bump into is a fashion designer.
“If every Johnny come lately is a designer, what’s my USP?” is Kolkata-based Kiran’s argument when I ask her about her impeccable style — a whole lot of mixed genres of intricate hand-work on fabric. People buy her work for the details, believes Kiran, who’s right now celebrating 15 years of designing.
She was at Collage in the city to meet her clients with her autumn/winter collection that was flying off the racks, even as we spoke.
“I’ve watched my line evolve. When I started, it was a small set of people who bought designer wear. Now, it’s the aspirational woman. Or the kind whose husband shops for her, the young bride looking for her trousseau, the edgy young executive and thinking woman who looks for the quirky…probably like me,” she says, giving me a generous dose of her husky laughter. And then adds, to make it clearer than ever: “A non-conformist who catches me at fashion week, who looks up my collection on the net, who’s not about a body type, and who have confidence and dress for themselves…I dress for myself.”Confidence queen
Kiran Uttam Ghosh has an unabashed air of confidence — one that would only stem from 15 successful and sustained years in the industry. “When you walk into a…More
