Shreya Ghoshal’s sold-out Unstoppable tour across North America features traditional Indian textiles, with no look repeated. One Kalamkari panel in her wardrobe took Andhra Pradesh artisan Ganga 25 days to hand-paint using natural dyes.
Other tour looks feature Patola, woven with painstaking skill, and Chamba Rumal embroidery from Himachal Pradesh depicting stories from literature, religious epics or history. A Gaurang Shah piece combines Paithani and Banaras handlooms with a Bandhani border; designer houses including Shantnu Nikhil, Rohit Bal, Abhishek Sharma Studio and Rimple & Harpreet helped create the wardrobe.
Ghoshal says she wants the clothes to draw attention to artisans and home-based looms, and sees the wardrobe as a way for diaspora fans to reconnect with their roots. She calls Unstoppable more personal than earlier tours and says it is “a positioning for myself and for all Indians.”
