The closing collection by Sabyasachi Mukherjee on the final day of the Lakme Fashion Week was a great and a grand spectacle. He had created a bridal collection almost entirely out of Patan Patola. Patola saris are a 750-year-old traditional weave indigenous to Patan, a small town in northern Gujarat. Creating a patola sari is a six to eight month process.  The fabric is woven using the complicated double ikat weaving technique, the details of which are a closely-guarded family secret, handed down from generation to generation by the artisans. In fact, there are only four families now that still weave patola fabric - once worn by royalty.

At once bohemian, elegant and stunning, his creations – in rich colours and unusual ancient fabrics with creative ethnic embellishments – are a work of art. He has made extensive use of bagru prints from Rajasthan on cotton and other hand woven fabrics. He describes his own collections as ‘an International styling with an Indian soul’.