All dressed up and nowhere to go. As the Coronavirus lockdown throws up paradoxes, a community of fashion designers is searching for slow-paced poetry in prose. Often, literature has taught us how to 'read' an outfit. "Poetry has come as a relief [during the pandemic] because it's not trying to sell anything tangible; it doesn't need your money—just your time and heart. In return it offers us a new lens, an ancient understanding and of course, hope," says Delhi-based poet Navkirat Sodhi.

"My performance dressing is always a concept. Sometimes stark, sometimes subtle and almost always abstract," says poet Navkirat Sodhi. She wore a 300-meter skirt for collaborator and close friend, designer Gaurav Gupta's couture show titled Unfolding at Royal Opera House