Trends may come and go, but one thing is true, we keep referring to our culture and traditions in order to make something new and better. Either we look into the past or we take inspiration from nature herself. The Lehengas may be in trend now, but did you know lehengas have a historical presence in our lives? We bet you did not know. However, our renewed love for lehengas is not because we have been reading history books much but because our celebrities have helped us see how chic and easy it is a choice not only if you are a bride, but also as a bridesmaid or even for attending the weddings within family and dear ones. Hence, today JDS Banaras invites you to read a little about the celebrities sighted in Banarasi lehengas. This topic is dear to our heart and by now we hope it is quite self-explanatory.
Why? The answer is in the simple fact that JDS Banaras is a brand that has solely built its present and future, promoting the cause of reviving the Banarasi handloom heritage. In this journey, we have also included and helped many of our clients adorn their celebration looks in banarasis, and yes, we have a plethora of Banarasi lehenga collection as well. So, if you feel inspired by these celebrity looks, visit us at our Rathyatra store and we are happy to help.
For now, let us focus on banarasi-adorned celebrities.
Kiara Advani:
The gorgeous actress who stole our hearts with her beautiful looks and her range of roles in a span of a couple of years, she has conquered our hearts even as a fashionista. We all know how she pulls off the simplest looks and be a beauty worth notice. However, it was while attending a wedding she attended.
The gorgeous actress who stole our hearts with her beautiful looks and her range of roles in a span of a couple of years, she has conquered our hearts even as a fashionista. We all know how she pulls off the simplest looks and be a beauty worth notice. However, it was while attending a wedding she attended.
Kiara wore a beautiful hot pink banarasi lehenga complete with a lot of floral motif gold work in Mughal floral patterns that found place even in the short choli she wore. Her choli first draws attention for the sleeveless look but had a stitched banarasi arm band that adds a sheen but without being overbearing, simply the best part about anything Banarasi as JDS always says. The skirt of the lehenga has a heavy gold border in floral motifs and the pink sunglasses on her head carries the colour through. Here, the dupatta in its pure gold brilliance finds a friend in the polka golden necklace, but her make-up is so muted that only her brilliance shines.
Alia Bhatt:
Known for her multiple banarasi outfit outings, she has worn banarasi lehenga on many occasions. Once she wore a green and gold banarasi lehenga with multicolour threadwork and brocade work that found a cascading flow throughout the skirt where the end was just pleated gold border and nothing overbearing at all. A sleek hairdo and heavy earrings with just a simple green bindi to carry green throughout.
This National Award winning actor has carried her look like a royalty. Her gajra and tassle adorned banarasi brocade blouse has enough catchy beauty notes. One word description, WOW.
Karisma Kapoor
The torch-bearer of her family in her generation as she broke traditions and won accolades and hearts, Karishma Kapoor is a style icon who has spanned her couture look from the 90s to now without slips.
One look that we especially voted for at JDS was this pink banarasi lehenga look. A softer shade of pink and with raw gold brocade work all over, continuing even in the dupatta, it can easily be made very gaudy, but not for the Karishma herself. She paired this with a simple gajra, soft gold tone jhumka and a bangle on each wrist. It was her lehenga that did the talking.
Rich lustrous gold brocade work all over, the long-sleeved blouse carries the thick floral motifs arranged in a gorgeous regal bouquet all across the body of the long, almost short kurta length choli. The skirt, voluminous and yet full regal brocade work at play, only broken into tiers with geometrical precision. The dupatta has a brocade border, an unusual one, but the plain middle makes everything come together. Ask her to essay a Zubeida scene in this outfit and would she not be a princes to watch!
Janhvi Kapoor
The young blossoming talent of her family, she has picked some unusual roles and shone through. What she has come to be famous for is also her natural shine in glamour, probably a genetic continuum from her mother and her own love for looking bright. She attends events in style too, never a foot wrong. In a similar way she attended a wedding and we were spellbound. The look was ethereal, almost like a young princess from the royal era. Pear shaped gold brocade work on the entire skirt and choli called for design consistency, which first broke with an embellished and almost contrasting floral work border. The second consistency broke with her stripe work aqua green dupatta. Very fresh for her fun young self as her necklace and jhumka set was complete with a mathapatti.
Final Address:
Simply Gorgeous is one word that JDS Banaras thinks goes well with every Banarasi outfit these celebrity charmers have carried, however, we are a little biased towards Banarasi handloom, hence we think it does a lot of help. Banarasi Lehengas have a timeless charm where fashion trends ca come to complement it but not the reverse. You can pair the skirts differently, wear the cholis with multiple outfits, pair dupattas too… making it a sustainable closet choice, especially if buying too many celebration outfits is not your choice.
Sacred Weaves:
Nurturing and thriving under the traditional guidance of the JDS Banaras, Sacred Weaves has been serving clients with choicest and regal and sustainable banarasi lehengas for quite some time now. So if you are a bride, we have a couture collection, but if you want to be a sassy sister-of-the-bride person, we got you covered there as well. All you have to do is to check our website and navigate to Banarasi Lehenga Collection and our lehenga store will open on your devices with a unique possibility for online guided shopping too. Experience this to understand.
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