The collection Madhumalati by ace designer Anupama Dayal has been inspired by the delicate summer blossom, seduced by the fragrance of dainty pink flowers all over the Northern Plains.
Drenched in desire
Burning with passion
Allow yourself
At least once in your lifetime
To be owned
Mind body and soul
This collection salutes the magnetic seductive aura of the ‘nautch girl’. Filled with elegance, dignity and free spiritedness in an era where these attributes were unattainable for most women.
The nautch girl danced
There were bells on her feet
Her smile was a lotus
And there were rainbows in her eyes
He wanted so much to get close to her
If she was real
So would his dreams be.
The warm glow
Of her beauty
Shuts out his pain
His every failure
His dislike for himself
Mirrored in the glass he holds
Bubbles of her laughter
Nights that feel like silk
