Aishwarya Rai Bachchan at the London premiere of Raavan

Rekha in her Kanjeevaram. wish i could take some credit for that!

Shabana Azmi in her textile rich saris

Sonia Gandhi

Sabyasachi Mukherjee and the sari, the designer and his muse. Sabya is incomplete without the sari. And the sari needs Sabya. Together, they rock ramp, reel and rack. before the Ode to Tradition is set to tune at taj bengal, fashionably fuelling Sabya’s Save the Sari campaign, t2 presents an exclusive jugalbandi

When did you first feel the need to save the sari?

Rani Mukerji

The late Maharani Gayatri Devi

Vidya Balan in the white Dhakai sari she wore to my show in Lakme Fashion Week last year

Nandita Das in her red silk sari at Cannes

I don’t know when the first feeling came but I do know that I learnt how to tuck and pleat a sari when I was 12, rummaging through my mother’s closet. And you ask a girl who has crossed 20, ready to take the matrimonial plunge and she can’t tell a pleat from a pallu! It is a rather scary social situation. More often than not, it is mothers who dissuade their daughters from wearing a sari, telling them that they will look older. Like I often say, there are certain connotations that are associated with a sari like behenji or aunty, and this really bothers me. I see the sari disappearing, bit by bit every day. It’s time We Save The Sari.