As fashion designer Sharbari Dutta breathed her last, netizens remember her immense contribution to ceremonial menswear
Fashion designer Sharbari Dutta was found dead inside the bathroom of her South Kolkata’s Broad Street residence on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday.
As per police sources, Dutta was found dead inside her bathroom at around 12.15 am on Friday. Officials of local police station and the Kolkata Police headquarters Lalbazar’s homicide branch reached the spot at night.
Her family members said Dutta (63) was last seen during the dinner on Tuesday. After that she also went incommunicado.
Primary investigation suggests that she died of a sudden cardiac attack in the toilet. But Dutta’s family members claim that she was otherwise keeping fine and had no such chronic ailment.
Kolkata Police’s homicide branch will carry out the investigation to find out the actual reason of the designer’s sudden demise. Dutta’s body was sent for the post-mortem examination.
Daughter of celebrated Bengali poet Ajit Dutta, Sharbari Dutta was a popular name in the costume designing industry for over past few decades, and was the only women designer to work on men’s ethnic fashion wear. It was Dutta who had introduced coloured Bengali dhotis and designer Punjabi kurtas to the mainstream fashion world with her exclusive touch on bright colours along with embroidery works.
The fashion mogul has also styled present Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan and cricketer Sachin Tendulkar.
Dutta has shattered stereotypes defining men’s ethnic fashion over the years. Well, through a flood of condolences from models, actors and people from the film industry for her family on social media, we can certainly see how significantly she contributed to the Indian fashion at large.
—With inputs from agencies