In Sabyasachi

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At the Ambani-Piramal wedding, Aishwarya was seen wearing a red Sabyasachi Benarasi sari complete with a heavy necklace and gajra in hair. Maybe it’s the fatigue of seeing the same jewellery styling over and over again on the designer’s own IG profile that made me go “Not again!” first.

But, if I ignore all that, she did look lovely.


Aishwarya, Aaradhya and Abhishek Bachchan

Photo Credit: Viral Bhayani

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  1. Aishwarya is beautiful, the saree is beautiful as is the jewelry. I’d say the combination of the three is lovely.. it’s just that ye dil mange kuch hath kar.

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  2. She looks beautiful but the styling is a replica of Deepika’s look for the Nilaya by Sabyasachi campaign. Not just the jewelry, the hair and make-up everything is copied.

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    • Au contraire, Ash has done this look plenty of times in the past, when DP wasnt even in the industry , and I feel she’s one of the rare women who can pull it off.

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  3. Timeless.

    Repetitive yes? But Sabya’s been trying to recreate timelessness. Luckily for him, Aish can carry it and not look overwhelmed. Plus, mogra? How can you hate it?

    Also, the entire family in that last photo look adorable. I love it. It’s a gorgeous picture.

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  4. Repetitive yes, but will take this over the MM &AJSK tents any day. This outfit does complete justice to her beautiful face. Even liking the middle parting on her.

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  5. She looks just like Anushka on her reception day. I agree with HHC, there’s too much Sabya TM here. She looks good but not original and in a look that’s been done to death with.

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  6. No denying that she’s beautiful. What I don’t get is the madam tussaudish expression in every pic…effortless smiling and carefree posing would only enhance the beauty!

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    • Thank God someone said it!! She perpetually has the ” I am so pretty, look at me” look. She is pretty undoubtedly. I just wish she wasn’t so conscious about it.

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  7. She looks stunning but this is ridiculous even for the Ambani wedding – she look like the bride! She’s dressed as a bride in bridal saree,choker, completed with the big bindi, red lip everything. Even if I was the sister of the bride I wouldn’t dress like this. In our Bengali weddings this is pretty much how the bride dresses up LOL! Zero sense of how to dress for another’s wedding.

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    • How is she looking like the bride ?? Is she wearing a nose ring, maang tikka or even heavy lehenga ? Does she have a flower garland around her neck ?

      Indian brides are not insecure about other women wearing red. This is a totally western concept becoz western wedding are 99% about the bride and her obsession about her ‘standing out’ ( hence the choreographed bridesmaid dresses ) Indian wedding are about other family members and people too. Their looks are not regulated. My bhua and my mausi wore red in my wedding. Red is a comman festive color worn, especially by married women !

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      • Okay so you’re saying Indian women should have no concept of how to dress for someone else’s wedding because it’s about including everyone?
        No issues with her wearing the colour red – a lot of my family members also wear red sarees at weddings, but this is about the whole shabang. Ok, nice that she wore the bridal red benarasi (anushka and Vidya and most Bengali brides I know dressed this way at their wedding functions btw) but she could have at least left the full on Sabyasachi bridal choker at home. Imagine if she showed up to anushkas reception in this – I’d certainly be confused.

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      • When I got married I did not have a maang tikka, nose ring or heavy lehenga. Please! Every Indian bride does not have that template to stick to.

        She looks the bride and this is exactly how anushka looked for her reception. Yes you can wear red, but to completely copy a bridal look from Sabya’s collection does mean she is dressed like a bride.

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        • “When I got married I did not have a maang tikka, nose ring or heavy lehenga.”— That is your problem. You chose to be a simple minimalist bride, the guests are not obliged to stick to your aesthetics. If you feel upstaged (and with your “aesthetic” its rather easy to be outdone at an Indian wedding where most folks go all out) it’s on you!

          “Please! Every Indian bride does not have that template to stick to.” — There you said it yourself! If there is no particular “bride” template, what exactly are you accusing Aishwarya of?
          My God these “culturally correct” snowflakes and their profitable business of offence taking.

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          • Exactly so what’s so hard to understand here? Every bride doesn’t have a template to stick to and hence it can easily be said that she’s looking like a bride. Whether she upstages the actual bride or not is a different question – to some people this is easily a bridal look and they are free to say that.

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      • @Shobha – thank you! For saying everything i want to say whenever somebody says “bridal” to any outfit thats not bland
        its one of the biggest social events of the year and i hardly think she looks bridal, or overdone. I have a grouse with the bad makeup, but bridal she isn’t! as you said, this whole “overshadow” the bride is such a western concept, where the bride micro manages what 10-20 people will wear in order to shine! no shaming, but its the way it is! using that as a benchmark for an OTT indian wedding (where countless photo-ops are lined up) is literally like comparing apples to oranges

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      • Wow….I like the Western tradition of bride standing out then….it’s her day! Any well meaning relative wouldnt wear red like the bride imo. It’s not about insecurities but the whole family is not getting married either…

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      • THERE ARE NO RULES IN INDIAN WEDDINGS. THE BRIDE IS ALSO OTT. THERE IS NO WAY THESE LADIES WILL OVERTAKE ISHA AMBANI… NO MISTAKING THE REAL BRIDE. PLEASE.

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        • It’s not about overtaking, or insecurities – it’s just about dressing sense. That’s what we are commenting on here right?
          And shobha said it herself, she’s one maang tikka and a nose ring short of looking like THE bride. If there are so rules, then what’s stopping her from wearing those too the next time she goes to a wedding. Even if there is no mistaking THE bride, why is she dressed as A bride to another person’s wedding?

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          • Agree with the poster above that there are no rules in Indian weddings about not dressing like the bride. That’s a very western concept. Additionally, not all Indian brides wear red or wear maang tikka. The red color and maang tikka are specific to certain States. Traditionally, all women wear noserings, so that’s got nothing to do with trying to look like a bride.

            I will take Aishwarya’s look over the half-naked look that that most of the other women have.

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            • Same here “I will take Aishwarya’s look over the half-naked look that most of the other women have.” Boring people, always trying to show their body.

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            • Not sure I properly understood your comment sorry.
              Someone commented saying she’s not looking like a bride because she has not worn the mang tikka and bridal naath (not talking about any nose ring) and all I said is even then that’s still a very narrow margin and one can still look like a bride without those things. Secondly if there really are no rules, and no one truly followed any rules, she can easily add those two things on top of everything she has worn today and show up to weddings and that would be super weird. But she won’t do that because there is a line to be drawn somewhere, and that’s why most people are not dressed up like a bride – even newlyweds. Maybe we can agree to disagree on where that line gets drawn, but I don’t think that’s a western concept at all.

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            • In fact a lot of brides in my family wore their bridal lehenga to the next family wedding. The western rules dont apply. She wore this red to this wedding but at other weddings she is more toned down. For gods sake this wedding had Beyonce as the band bajaa. A huge superstar showing up in red is hardly going to distract anyone.

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    • Tina, looks like you know nothing about Indian wear or weddings. She does not look like she’s dressed up as the bride. Take your hatred elsewhere please!

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      • Hey aditi, there was no hatred I prefaced my comment with “she looks stunning”, it’s just an opinion and I’m entitled to one as is everyone else, so please relax and keep your instructions to yourself rather.
        To me (and I am certainly not the only one) she looks like a bride decked in bridal wear and I much prefer how someone like soha did red/jewelry at deepika’s reception. It’s absolutely fine if you don’t agree but please refrain from personal attacks it’s in really bad taste. There are no right answershere, it’s all opinions so there’s no question of knowing nothing or knowing everything

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        • If you are entitled to have your opinion, then Aishwarya is also entitled to wear whatever she wants to wear Why are you guys talking about her overshadowing the bride. I live in india and have seen many guests at the weddings wearing heavy jewellery and heavy kanjivaram sarees.

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      • Hi Aditi, Tina has a point when it comes down to Bengali Weddings. The bride wears re/ tones of red benarasi (usually) and only the close relatives wear red benarasis (the one from their own weddings). I am a bengali and I have not seen any general guest wear a red benarasi to the countless weddings that I have been to, including my own. Yes, there are not written/ unwritten rules around on this, but it is somewhat of a conditioned behaviour, to me….we have not seen when growing up and do not do the same. It may be different for the hundreds of different communities in India. When within Bengalis, wedding rituals vary from gotra to gotra, we cannot say that all Indian weddings are same and all Indian brides dress the same.

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      • Might I add, that the other general guests do wear red in bengali weddings, but not the red bridal benarasi. Also, non-family guests do wear benarasi – but not a red/ tones of red one. This is my observation and is strictly based on the bengali weddings that I have been a part of. It all depends on the individual taste.

        Aishwarya looks beautiful that never before. I just wish the blouse did not have that ornate border and the necklace was a simpler one.

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  8. I will take this anyday along with her red lipstick, tyan the atrocities that she wears. The family pic is lovely, Aishwarya is very beautiful.

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  9. She looks beautiful…but why can’t these celebs buy artisans Benares saree than these embellished designer sarees…promote weavers directly….I am really fed up of Sabyasachi

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    • +1

      This is better than her usual MM, AJSK tents and lehengas. But there are so many types of saris to choose from Benaras, Uppada, Gadwal, Mysore silk, Tant, Pochampally, Mangalagiri saris etc… if they look outside of these embellished/designer ones. They can wear each variety to each function without looking repetitive. They add so much grace and elegance to a woman.

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  10. She looks sooo beautiful. Even if we have seen this look so many times before, I will take this any day over the MM or AJSK silver/white lehengas and anarkalis.

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  11. Stunning is the word.
    Why red, I know Gujrati wedding attire is probably white in color which won’t really make red upstage the bride…but it is easier to steer clear of these bridal colors especially while wearing what is essentially bridal wear. Heavy saree, gajra and all…she looks like the bride (a stunning one at that).
    Very pretty and her face is gorgeous. The last pic is very sweet.

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  12. This is the best she’s looked in a while!!!!
    Btw I don’t get this who designer fatigue you guys keep talking about. The saree, the hair in a bun with a gajra and the bindi is classy look. Women wear that over and over. If classy is what sabya is going for with his designs it should’nt be considered “fatigue”

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  13. I hate these stuffy blouses where the necklace ends and blouse starts! It just makes me feel heavy. I always prefer some skin to break the continuity and make the look breathable. Disliked Anushka’s and Deepika’s reception looks for the same reason.

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  14. I don’t know how she convinced her little girl to not wear pink. Aradhya looks super cute in the orange legenga.
    While what Aishwariya is wearing seems bridal, but she doesn’t give bridal vibes per se.

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  15. Agree they should stick with weavers, but the thing is with designers they may customize basedo n their taste and also Aishwarya and Aradya looking very pretty but making her look old too.

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