Best Dressed 2016: Divya Thakur

Text & Interview by Saumya Sinha. Realisation by Divya Mahindra, Girish Masand, Shweta Navandar, Prateek Patel and Anuradha Gandhi. Photographs by Sheena Dabholkar. Make-Up by Charmaine Rao Soares, for Shiseido. Hair by Sanah Kewal

For mastering the shift dress in every colour and shape

Founder and Creative Director of Design Temple; Mumbai

Personal style
Comfortable and eclectic. I like to throw things together so it’s not a studied or formal approach to dressing. It is very organic and entirely mood-based. It is funny that I feel certain things look nice only on some days.

Sustainable fashion
For me, a given, I don’t go hunting for it. I used to wear designs by Himanshu and Sonali, and I currently wear a lot of Rajesh Pratap Singh, Wendell Rodricks, Savio Jon — all comfort clothing and they’ve all been working with sustainable materials for many years. Everything needs to be sustainable today.

Newly discovered organic labels
Verandah by Anjali, Péro by Aneeth Arora and Rahul Mishra.

Style a sari
I love the sari and I don’t think there’s another garment like it. The challenge for me is the blouse and the petticoat; the day someone can crack those two things, they’ll have given the sari longevity and an eternal space.