We are inching closer by the day to the epic closure of the year 2024 and awaiting welcoming the New Year 2025 as the calendar eventually turns a page. This brings us to the best of fashion that we saw through the months. The sartorial scene was witness to a lot of exciting developments like Shalini Passi's OTT looks becoming the talk of the talk and Nancy Tyagi becoming the internet's most loved self-taught designer; plus much more.
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We bring you a list of not one or two but six game changers in the world of fashion who shone in the year 2024.
1. Mona Patel Walked The Met Gala 2024 Red Crapet In An Engineered Kinetic Dress
Indian entrepreneur, philanthropist and billionaire Mona Patel walked the Met Gala red carpet in May 2024. One minute she was a mystery guest at the event and the next, she became one of the Met Gala 2024's best-dressed guests in her highly engineered Iris Van Herpen kinetic dress. Dressed in nude and gold tones, she fit perfectly with the dress code "The Garden Of Time" like a puzzle. Not just this, she is also one of the largest client's on internationally acclaimed stylist, Law Roach roster.
2. Sabyasachi Mukherjee Was The First Indian Designer To Walk The Met Gala Red Carpet In 2024
Acclaimed Indian designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee made history by becoming the first Indian designer to walk the Met Gala red carpet in May 2024. He wore a cotton embroidered duster coat from his Resort 2024 collection paired with a white shirt, beige trousers, a matching belt, brown loafer shoes. But this wasn't all as he layered the coat with handpicked jewels from Sabyasachi High Jewellery that were encrusted with emeralds, pearls, tourmalines and diamonds to add the requisite sparkle to the look.
3. Nancy Tyagi Acquired Attention With Her Cannes Film Festival 2024 Debut In A Self-Designed Tulle Pink Gown
Nancy Tyagi became a star overnight when she walked down the Met Gala red carpet in May 2024. She went from an everyday girl to a celebrity in a single night capturing headlines and hearts alike. She was India's first self-taught designer, stylist, model and now celebrity all rolled into one on the French Riviera. Who can forget the story of a girl who comes from the lanes of Delhi sky rocketing into global stardom with her pink tulle gown clad Met Gala debut! Apparently, the handcrafted ensemble took her 30 days and 1,000 metres of fabric to make and it weighted over 20 kilograms.
4. Bridgerton Star Nicola Coughlan Stole The Limelight With Her Plus Size Style
Irish actress Nicola Coughlan, who played the female lead Penelope Featherington in Bridgerton Season 3, was a symbol of size inclusive heroines from the get go. But her size inclusive and equally stylish outings in breathtaking gowns and dresses during the show's promotions in the months of May and June 2024 shut down body shamers and haters with self-love and body positivity. She was quoted giving a befitting reply to an audience member during a Dublin promotion who questioned her skin show scenes in Bridgerton Season 3 saying, "You know, it is hard because I think women with my body type, women with perfect breasts, we don't get to see ourselves on screen enough." She further added as people continued to giggle and cheer her on, "And I'm very proud as a member of the perfect breast community. I hope you enjoy seeing them."
Next she also made waves by becoming the face of Kim Kardashian's shapewear brand SKIMS's body positive campaign, 'Everybody's wearing SKIMS'. With this move she was the force behind size inclusivity and universal body type representation.
5. Shalini Passi Became The Internet's Darling With Her OTT Looks
Shalini Passi was another success story who continues to keep us glued to her life and her quirky fashion choices. She made her OTT debut on Netflix's Bollywood Wives Vs Fabulous Lives in October 2024. Be it her larger-than-life gowns, Dolce and Gabbana jewellery Roman-inspired jewellery, her Judith Leiber dazzling handbags, her Sunita Shekhawat hair ornaments, her mantras of not holding grudges because it affects her skin and changing an outfit to change her vibe, her art collection in her palatial home in Delhi and more. All of it were her statements of choice to arrive on the fashion scene and how. She goes by the formula of not following trends as style was deeply personal for her.
6. Rohit Bal Returned To The Lakme Fashion Week 2024 Runway One Last Time
India's OG celebrity fashion designer, the late Rohit Bal made his big runway comeback at the Lakme Fashion Week finale with his collection Kaaynat that was filled with his signature anarkalis, angrakhas, velvets, silks, lotus and floral motifs and a touch of his homeland Kashmir. With Ananya Panday stopping the show for him, it was almost as if he was bidding adieu to the world of fashion for one final time.
From Shalini Passi to Nicola Coughlan, 2024's fashion scene game changers had a Midas touch.
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