Just outside Ayodhya, in the tiny town of Uttar Pradesh’s Siddharth Nagar, a boy hated running his father’s medical store. Instead, he read newspapers, his window to the world outside. His hero was Hrithik Roshan, whose fashion sense he admired ever since he watched Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai on TV. Far away in Dholpur in Rajasthan, a farmer’s son idolised posters of James Dean, wondering if he could ever make the denims the American actor wore.

The first boy, Anurag Gupta, now 35, made it to design school. The second, Satendra Singh, 29, made it to the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)- Delhi , where he patented the world’s first indigo-dyed wool denim that Gupta has used in his collection at the ongoing Lakme India Fashion Week.

Gupta’s latest collection features shirts, jackets, dres

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