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9 Dec, 2012

Bollywood favourite Sabyasachi pushes sari revival | GulfNews.com

As the platform-heeled models sashay past the flash of cameras to the sound of U2, Sabyasachi Mukherjee surveys the progress of his campaign to drag the sari from the back of the closet onto the catwalk.

“Too many women think of the sari as something that is very backward and not cool,” said the award-winning Indian designer. “I want to tell them: ‘The sari is beautiful, it is forgiving, it is unique and it is exotic to the whole world’.”

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