16 | FASHION
FASHION WITH HEART
Fashion designer and body-positivity activist Kaveri Lalchand is using her experiences in theatre and publishing to fuel her creativity and cause
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By Maya Lalchandani
ven though fashion has been paramount in Kaveri Lalchand’s life, it has never been the sum total of who she is. A free soul who is comfortable in her own skin, Kaveri conquered her fears one by one and drew her fashion sensibility from her own personality and past experiences as poet, publisher, theatre actor and designer. Having watched too many women fidgeting with discomfort
at parties, unhappy with their body shapes, Kaveri made it her mission to design comfortable yet fashionable clothes that empower women with ‘real’ bodies. Her Chennai-based eponymous label Kaveri goes with the tagline ‘Everyday Beautiful’, and now has flagship stores in Chennai, Kochi and Mumbai, with markets in Europe and around the world. Kaveri has developed what she calls ‘happy sizes’, clothes that flatter a woman’s natural curves. She uses NOVEMBER 2019