"The Way I Dress" (2012)
By Mr Waris Ahluwalia - Actor and Designer
Director: Mr Chris Floyd
Art Director: Mr Leon St-Amour
Editor: Mr Dani Jacobs
Producers: Ms Jodie Harrison, Ms Xanthe Greenhill, Ms Rachael Smart
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MR PORTER
Published on Apr 25, 2012
Actor and jewellery designer Mr Waris Ahluwalia has a knack for making style look easy. Watch this short video to get the secret to how he does it.
A frequent fixture on the world's best-dressed lists, Mr Ahluwalia has found fame as both an actor and jewellery designer with his label House of Waris. MR PORTER takes you into Mr Ahluwalia's world of managing a busy schedule while always staying stylish.
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*Notables from Video*
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Born in the foothills of the Himalayas
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Moved to New York City at the age of 5
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"I now make beautiful things."
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"I believe you discover the power of beauty as a young boy. You realize the power of beauty and the effect it can have on you, and how nothing else matters"
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"Beauty is the promise of happiness." ~Stendl (sic)
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Comes from family of talented and successful academics
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In college he cut out a picture of a shoe. He thinks it was a Gucci shoe. He thought of the way the lettering was done and it was white on a red shoe.
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That was the first awakening of the draw to something of fashion or a sense of style
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Prior to that, one of his first senses of beauty was one of his favorite object he had in high school was a pair of boots that he bought, cowboy boots, steel-toed with skull and crossbones on the tips - black leather
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His concept of work is to do what you love and to surround yourself with people you love
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When you collaborate your friendship goes much deeper
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The issue with collaboration is that people get too attached to ideas, more than just ege, people get attached to their ideas and you can't have an attachment of ideas, you have to let them go through you, flow through you without an attachment
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No negotiations, no games
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He puts on red socks and boots while narrating