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Elle India
|June 2023
Having swapped the mountains of Nainital for the French Riviera, Dolly Singh reflects on her journey with Hasina Jeelani
There's hushed anticipation in the air as Aishwarya Rai Bachchan sets foot on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival 2010 in a voluminous tulle concoction. Millions of miles away, a young girl in Uttarakhand stares at her screen in reverential rapture, never once fathoming that future. That one day, she would fly down to the French Riviera and walk the red carpet in bespoke couture from Abu Jani Sandeep Khosla and Tarun Tahiliani, among others. That girl is, you guessed it, Dolly Singh.
This story is from the June 2023 edition of Elle India.
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