Wedding Of The Ambanis: India’s top designers worked energetically with thousands of weavers and artisans to create unique styles for thousands of guests.
More than four months of celebration and happiness of the Ambanis on the occasion of the wedding of Anant, the youngest son of Mukesh Ambani, the richest man in Asia, ended with the reception of about 14 thousand guests.
Mukesh Ambani, whose net worth is estimated at $120 billion, along with his wife, Nita, threw a ceremony that even surpassed the lavish ones they had for their daughter Isha in 2018 and their son Akash in 2019.
Wedding Of The Ambanis, According to WWD (WWD), clothing and fashion market analysts believe that although this wedding was a private event, it will change the course of India’s $75 billion wedding market; A market that used to be the driving force of fashion designers in this country.
India’s top designers worked energetically with thousands of weavers and artisans to create unique styles for thousands of guests.
At the wedding ceremony held on Friday, July 12 at the Jio Convention Center in Mumbai’s Kurla Port, the importance of fashion and design was clear: Priyanka Chopra Jonas wore a dress by Tarun Tahiliani; Kim and Khloe Kardashian appeared in sarees designed by Manish Malhotra, and Bollywood’s biggest stars donned similar brands with outfits from designers such as Anamika Khanna, Falguni and Shane Peacock, Arpita Mehta and Karan Torani.
Wedding Of The Ambanis, According to the design teams, more than 80 percent of the dresses for the event were custom-made, and only about 20 percent were purchased from ready-to-wear collections.
The focus of the wedding was on traditional attire, worn by everyone from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to prominent athletes, with the Kardashian sisters even donning tikkas (head ornaments).
The celebrations began in March with a three-day pre-wedding event at the Ambani home in Jamnagar, where Radhika Merchant’s custom-made pink dress by Versace turned heads. This choice was later compared to a blue dress from the same fashion house that she wore during the three-day festivities in May in Europe.
Wedding Of The Ambanis, The luxury wedding industry has estimated different figures about the cost of this wedding; From 350 to 600 million dollars.
Next, we look at the key designers that the Ambani family chose for these events.
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Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla
Wedding Of The Ambanis, Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla have long been the favorite designers of the Ambani family. Sandeep Khosla told WWD that his amazing and valuable relationship with the Ambani family goes back three decades. They had also designed the bride and groom dresses in the past ceremony of the Ambani family and their designs are based on unique craftsmanship and re-creation of classic fashion.
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Wedding Of The Ambanis, According to Khosla, Anant Ambani’s dress for the wedding was designed from silver fibers covered with gold plating, with animal and bird motifs printed on it because of his love for animals.
At the Sanjeet ceremony, the wedding dress was a lehenga encrusted with Swarovski crystals and the bride’s ghagra (long skirt) was inspired by the traditional Gujarati wedding dress.
Wedding Of The Ambanis, Nita Ambani’s and Isha Ambani’s dresses were also Varanasi Ghaghra (a fabric attributed to the city of Varanasi), Rangkat (the technique of combining different colors in one fabric), which were covered with zari embroidery and sequin embroidery.
Manish Malhotra
Wedding Of The Ambanis, Manish Malhotra was one of the top designers in India with the highest turnover for many years and Bollywood stars are very interested in him. He has more than 30 years of experience and is known for his magnificent designs for wedding dresses.
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At this year’s event, he designed many designs for the styles of the guests as well as the Ambani family, focusing on traditional Indian crafts, Varanasi fabrics.
Wedding Of The Ambanis, Kim Kardashian’s ivory lehenga with an off-the-shoulder silk bodice embroidered with floral motifs and light gold details, and Kim’s striking red sari at the event were designed by Malhotra.
An exclusive hand-woven lehenga from Broadcad (a type of luxurious and heavy fabric that is decorated with embossed and woven designs and is usually produced from silk, gold or silver fibers, and sometimes metallic threads) on Khloé Kardashian with beaded motifs, with cascading strands of pearls in the part The sleeves were embellished, also by Manish Malhotra.
Anamika Khanna
Wedding Of The Ambanis, Based in Calcutta, Anamika Khanna has quickly become one of India’s top designers. He was one of the first Indian designers to showcase his collections at Paris Fashion Week and is known for his stylish clothes. He had designed the clothes of many guests of the event, but the shawl made of natural flowers at the Haldi ceremony caught the public’s attention. Also the shawl he designed for Radhika’s dress on the last day.
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Radhika’s dress at the Sunday night party was a collaboration between Dolce and Gabbana and this designer. Speaking to WWE, he described the collaboration as “a true fusion of Indian culture and international fashion.” The fully hand-embroidered shawl that Khanna designed for Radhika was full of details that she prepared with fashion designer and film producer Rhea Kapoor.
Taron Tahiliani
Taron Tahiliani is known for his fluid drop form. For the event, he designed Priyanka Chopra’s yellow lehenga with 3D flowers and petals stitched on it.
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This designer had also done designs for Isha and Radhika and some Bollywood celebrities.
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