Monotony, you can go shave your back now.

Here’s how Komal Pandey is skyrocketing her way on the Global Fashion Ladder

She pairs lingeries and dupattas, appearing like a Debonair-Deity during meet-ups with her friends, demonstrates cardio by changing her ensembles countless times a day, and if challenged, camouflages a garbage bag into couture. Basically, if something is picked up by Komal Pandey, that’ll be turned into gold, and thanks to her impeccable dominance, the attires, the accessories౼from exaggerated shoulders to avant-garde earrings and dramatic marabous, everything will be promulgated like a fashion ordinance.

Komal has indeed made unconventional, the new convention.

She has been featured by YouTube with global creators like Patrick Star, has taken home the Cosmopolitan Blogger award multiple times, and amidst the world of illusions, is a hallmark of pertinent fashion with an eternal shine. She’s here to broaden the Fashion Vocabulary, and she’s doing that with sass.

Komal’s distinctive, fresh and organic way of doing things is a pivotal reason why she is an Unparalleled Majesty in the world of Fashion. Broadcasting Komal as synonymous with Zeitgitst in the contemporary world won’t be an exaggeration, but rather a norm. But that’s one of the many reasons she is the Fashion Leader in the world of Indian Blogging. Monotony is Fashion’s biggest enemy, and Komal is her best friend. It, therefore, becomes obvious that Komal’s content and banality have nothing in common.

Hop onto her Instagram page and compare her last two videos. You’ll see a staggering difference, with a hinge of “Komalfied’’ similarity. From the alluring video concepts to the discrete aesthetic in every other piece of content, she touches the extremes of the fashion pendulum, and it doesn’t matter where that stops, Komal will have something to offer. Here are the reasons why Komal is remarkably high on the fashion ladder.

Mediocrity? Boo, you whore

Avant-Garde isn’t a new breeze in the world of Fashion. The runways, the Galas, and the celebrities on Red Carpets have drooled in what is termed by laymen as “Unwearable.” Though fashion junkies were always fond of exaggeration, it was not always practical for the general to buy something of that sort. High-end and Avant-Garde fashion was reserved for a celebutante or an Alexander Mcqueen exhibition, like an unsaid rule that it wasn’t wearable for pedestrians. Experimental though appreciated by the fashion critiques, could not be seen dominating the roads.
Well, not anymore.

You thought you could only pair a saree with a blouse. Think again, because thanks to the unparalleled majesty, you don’t have to excruciate yourself with the usual-saturated pairings; she keeps articulating new ones for us. Thanks to her, “Sheer Shirts with Ethnic Bottoms”, “Bras over Blazers”, and “Corsets complementing Sarees” are state-of-the-art pairs. On her glistening canvas, phrasing “trouser” won’t be grammatically incorrect, and rhinestone earrings over your collar fits like a piece of puzzle.

Khushali Srivastava, a fashion creator, and an aspiring model says, “In our college fashion society days, we always wanted to take idiosyncratic outfits that we wore on the fest runways, to the pavements, but were terrified. Komal makes us feel represented. Now we feel like we have the confidence to wear what we want to.”

Komal and convention have nothing in common, and she seems to enjoy breaking them now and then. Komal’s outfits supersede all the trends.

In a world where due to the plethora of content available on a mere scroll, we seek more anomaly, and she’s just that, a deviation from the excruciating myriad.

Sharara-Sharara

Think Alga Yagnik’s melody blessing your ears, crimson red roses making way on a sartorial bun, chandbalis and substantial jhumkas bejewelling a nonchalant goddess, and ensembles smoothly transitioning; a golden drenched saree becomes an embellished lehenga having indigenous embroideries in a snap.

Sometimes a Typical Regalia, others, a Boho Rebel, Komal does wonders with her flamboyant ethnic ensembles.

Trust her to rock a velvet suit with extravagant oxidized jewelry, a subtle saree paired with an opulent blouse, a Shyamal Bhoomika lehenga with jasmine embossed pigtails or a mustard kaftan with a contrast green dupatta with voluminous laces around with an identical proficiency.

Indian Fashion and its contribution to the world of fashion are non-negotiable. But even after that, on a global level, the Indian silhouette is under-represented. Indian Designers in established fashion weeks like can still be counted on fingertips. Komal Pandey has ensured that with the power of her thought-provoking content, ethnic wear reaches an exponential milestone. She is propagating that Indian fashion doesn’t become a backdrop on an International scale. And how does she do that? by the power of her exemplary content that is reaffirmed with a hinge of drama.

With a massive and loyal audience like hers, it’s just a matter of time, Indian Fashion becomes an arsenal internationally.

Hors Concours

From top-notch video ideas and titles, to their exceptional execution so each piece showcases a fashion documentary, Komal contains multitudes. She saves the world in a Valtaa coat, a co-ord set, and intrepid Zara sunglasses, styles a trouser underneath a dress exceptionally when proceeding from Summer to Fall in seconds, and then becomes her Knight in shining armor by wearing a zebra-striped bra over a black shirt. She channels Marylin Munroe in a blue denim jacket over a red polka dress with short, wavy hairs, and is a sight to behold in a strapless pink bra, white detachable sleeves, and a golden chain for a necklace when she showcases Outfits to wear when one doesn’t give a fuck.

We’ve lost count of our favorite reels of hers, but in each new she uploads, she outperforms herself. According to her Instagram bio, Masala chai runs in her veins, and maybe that’s the source for her creative contemplation, a superlative force who doesn’t exist for the faint of the wardrobe choices, and stands, unrivaled.

A love-affair with her audience

Her love for distinguished fashion is anchored by a loyal audience of over a whopping 1.6 million on her Instagram, and 1 million on YouTube. Her audience cannot seem to get enough of the looks served by her. She is a championed voice for any millennial, who aspire to make their career in Fashion.

“As a young girl who aspires to work in fashion but is intimidated by my short height, watching Komal restores my faith in my dreams. She’s made her room her runway, and I want to be a trailblazer of creative fashion just like her”, says Sakshi, who considers herself a loyal follower. When we asked her “Whether she does not think her outfits are not meant to be publicly worn?”, she replies, “You see my outfit right, I am wearing it, so I guess it is wearable”, she says wearing a Brallete paired with Baggy Jeans. She adds, “Who gets to decide what’s meant to be publicly worn or not? You, me, or a random sexist on the internet?” She adds furiously, “Do you ever expect runways to do mundane? We admire when the Hadids and the Jenners promulgate à la mode, but somehow Komal is too immoral with her outfit choices. If you ask me, it’s hypocrisy, sexism, and a continuous urge of the society to declare regulations for women.”

Every time Komal Pandey announces a challenge, her followers served. When she announced her Catfish Challenge, thousands from all across the country wore their skirts as tops, extended sleeves as boots, and palazzos as a cut-out crop top. With a staunch spectator base, her audience has a specific camaraderie with her as a creator.

“She is not just a blogger, she orchestrates the fact that if the world is intimidated by your Fashion aesthetic, it’s on them”, says Ananya, a Marketing Strategist, and an aspiring content creator.

Due to her genuine admiration for her audience, her interaction with them in the comments, we don’t feel as if she’s a stranger on the internet. “She’s like a bestie who loves fashion and who’ll kill us if we dared to be unfashionable. Every group has one, Komal is the universal fashionista friend, and when she says something looks divine and you’ll slay in it, you are most likely to buy it”, says Eshita, a final year college student who wants to be a Fashion Icon in the near future.

Demarcations Deleted

She normalizes skin show in merely sixty seconds with a caption stating, “My body is my right. Modesty is my right. Going naked is my choice. Shedding clothes is my choice.” Komal then modernizes the victorian by styling corsets as outerwear, and as a response to her critics, who blabber that she would never dare to wear the whimsical she puts on in her room, out in the open, walks the roads wearing a scarf as a luscious top.

Komal Pandey is a mecca of individuality and deletes all the demarcations the world has accorded. The world is dynamic, and so are the choices of millions of people who delve into it. While some replenish themselves by concealing parts of their body, there are others who find the liberation in skin reveal.

She disseminates the power of peculiarity by proudly promulgating that, there is nothing bold per se in choosing to reveal like there is nothing awful in choosing to conceal. It’s just an individual choice. Why is it so difficult to understand?

Often when women take ownership of themselves, the world feels threatened. On the internet, not everything is candies and rainbows. Men and patriarchal women love nothing more than to tell women how they should behave. Komal knows how to shut them up, with style.

“If I don’t judge you for wearing whatever the hell you want to, you are expected to reciprocate the same” is her mantra. Though sometimes criticized for not serving looks for the average Indian Household, Komal’s Instagram has immense inspiration for the ones who prefer skin concealment.

Amidst the loud world which is always telling women what to do, and what not to do, Komal renders and epitomizes “Personal Choice”.

In an article for Teen Vogue, Natasha Mulenga writes, “ It’s interesting that women in entertainment are often chastised for their exhibition of sensuality, only to be heralded as icons later.” Take Beyonce, Britney, Madonna or Nicki; and it’s apparent. Komal is an Icon in the making, and through her artistic content, she broadcasts that there’s nothing sexy and bold in wearing skin-revealing outfits, but merely it comes down to personal choice.

Men having habitual of the world being all about them often confuse women owning their bodies might have something to do with them. Komal just shuts them right, one ensemble at a time.

She ain’t the Indian Kendall or the next Kareena. She is “Komal”. Now, how do you top that? Simple, you don’t.