Don't Compare Myself With Anyone

    • deebashree.mohanty@timesgroup.com
    • Publish Date: May 28 2016 5:47PM
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    • Updated Date: May 28 2016 5:47PM
Don't Compare Myself With Anyone

DESIGNER PROFILES

Meet the young and extremely talented Indian Fashion designer Masaba Gupta in a candid interview with Deebashree Mohanty telling about her childhood, success story and upcoming projects.

Tell me something about yourself that people don’t know?
For me, most people don’t know that I am much stronger and smarter than I appear and catch on to people. I may look that I am ignorant about things but I am very sharp and I pick up personalities very quickly.
As a celebrity kid (being the daughter of National film award winning actress – Neena Guptaand Cricket legend – Sir Viv Richards), how much pressure was on you to become famous like your parents?
I never felt any pressure as a child. There was no internal pressure and so I never took it seriously. However there is a certain amount of pressure to take an advantage of and I used it when I was making my debut. Other than that, I never felt the pressure when I was designing or beginning of my journey in fashion industry. This is something I continuously do because if you think that you do, people try to compare you to your parents and then you’ll never be going to succeed. What my parents did was very difficult…How they managed their success was very different…and how they managed the time was very different. I don’t compare myself to them because what I am doing now is very different from what they did.
How was your childhood?
It was very normal than people think. I had very regular friends and used to do things with them like normal kids do. I did tantrums like any other kid. I traveled. My parents treated me like any other child. I wasn’t an overprotective child. My mom would want me to take my own decisions and she would like to understand and resolve things how they were. That has lots to do with who you are and shape you as an adult. I think when you see things as they are and are able to understand at a very young age, it is much easier for you to be a better human being than you are!
Where did you grow up? As a child, did you have any hobby?
I grew up in Mumbai, India. In my free-time as a kid, I played tennis almost 4-5 hours a day and I did swimming a lot.
After studying music in London, what was the turning point in your life that made you decide to study fashion from SNDT University?
The topmost thing was I always wanted to be a singer. I studied music in London. I also learnt dance and lots of other creative stuff. But after coming back to India, I didn’t want to do singing any more and the only course open at that time was Fashion. So I literally enrolled because I had nothing to do.
At 19 years of age, you presented your first collection ‘Kattran’ at India’s most prestigious Fashion show – Lakme Fashion Week in 2009. How did you get that opportunity? 
It happened because, I remember, I was showing my line in my college graduation show and my mentor was Wendell Rodricks. After seeing my collection, he told me that I am ready to take the next step and should apply for Lakme Fashion week. At that time, auditions for Lakme Fashion week were open and I had a feeling that I should apply. I applied the same collection which I showed at my graduation show and I was in the second year of my college at that time. talking to you too! 

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