Fashion for the Soul

Episode 1: Fashion for the Soul — How the way we dress shapes who we becomeFor most of her life, Ria wore a uniform of some kind — school uniforms, corporate dress codes, and the informal codes of every season of life. Then, in her 40s, the uniform disappeared. For the first time, there was no dress code. The question that followed was harder than it looked: who am I, and what am I craving?This episode follows one woman's journey back to herself through fabric, silhouette, and colour — from a childhood bracelet of jasmine flowers at India Gate to barrel-leg trousers that changed how she writes. Along the way, a quiet argument forms: that fashion is not frivolous. That what we wear shapes who we become. That dressing with intention might be one of the most honest things a woman can do."I want to unfold. I don't want to be folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie." — Rainer Maria Rilke, from Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy (Riverhead Books, 1996)Asta/AasthaTibi Style ClassEnclothed cognition studyOzissUnrushSutaNicobarFab India