These surreal and eye-catching designs by Kolkata's Ayushman Mitra look to champion the gender-neutral clothing space. Would you wear these clothes?
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00:00This is not a fashion statement, it is about your own identity and what you like to wear
00:11and you should be able to wear it.
00:41The perspective of it looking pretty and colourful, I mean that's what I think.
00:57It was also about how it, you know, struck to people and it started conversation.
01:05And people would ask, oh, is this a man's face or is this a woman's face?
01:11Are they both women?
01:12Are they both men?
01:13And that is where the entire idea of androgyny, the entire idea of putting things together
01:19where most of these pieces or these faces or characters are actually genderless.
01:38A shawl, you know, that we all wear was always very gender neutral to me while I was growing
01:45up.
01:46A shawl and a dhoti are just different, you know, different variations of wearing fabric.
01:52It is just about how one can and be and clothes should not be boxed in into brackets like
02:04we generally do.
02:05Every new piece that we create and make has a statement about today's time and age.
02:11So in terms of evolution of design, I am extremely fond of it.
02:36And, you know, these are two witches, as you put it, you know, they have black magic going
02:43on and one of the witches, you know, is annoyed with the other witch and she casts a spell
02:51and turns her head into a flower pot.
02:54And the monkey is so amused by this entire magic, you know, he has his mouth open and
03:00it's gasping while you see a lot of content and happiness in the face of the other witch
03:08who thinks that, you know, she's done something miraculous to get a reaction out of monkey.