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THIS year is indeed a very special one for designer Pallavi Jaikishan. As one of India’s first couturiers, Jaikishan is celebrating 50 years of being in the business. Jaikishan’s elegant saris and lehengas, opulent with English roses and pastel colours, with threads and sequins from France, have been consistently beauteous for all these years.

Pallavi Jaikishan's four decades in the industry - Times of India

“Everyday I tell myself I have to do the same thing I’ve been doing, but make it a little different from what I did 10 years ago,” she laughs.

Jaikishan was that rare mix of fashion and Bollywood in the 1960s and 1970s, when almost every designer is dying to get a toe-in even today. She was married to the legendary Jaikishan Panchal (the family now uses his first name), of the Shankar-Jaikishan composing duo of too many hit films, like ‘Awara’, ‘ Shree 420 ’, ‘Daag’, ‘Barsaat’, ‘Boot Polish’.

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