A PERFECT MATCH

JJ VALAYA

“I have admired Tripti’s great presence in cinema, and it was on my mind that we should shoot together someday. I trusted my muse and my stylists implicitly, while I was the designer of the clothes as well as the photographer. There was a seamless sense of teamwork.

I like contradiction and what it tosses up. The Royal Nomad (with a penchant for Art Deco) has been the brand’s ethos for nearly three decades now. The two words, royal and nomad, (nomads), and I often wonder whether some mystical auras of the two embraced me when I was born there.