RISHIKESH, INDIA, April 10, 2002: Believing that what you wear should reflect how you feel on the inside spiritually, fashion designer Sunil Mehra launched his spring-summer men’s wear collection in April of this year. At one time Sunil was wrapped up in a life of parties and hangovers. However, in 1996 he took a two-year break from the fast track he was on and pilgrimaged to ashrams in Rishikesh and Hardwar. He returned to the fashion industry in 1998 with new ideas and enthusiasm. “I wanted to give fashion a new meaning. Clothes, after all, are a vehicle of communication. I decided to go spiritual and incorporated religious imagery onto fashion garments,” says Mehra. His linen Kurta collections, modeled by women, are aptly titled Truth, Peace, and Devotion and feature motifs such as rudrakshas, swastikas, yantras, peacock feathers and other religious images.
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