The blue shibori dress at a Lokah appearance

This is not a costume. Kalyani Priyadarshan wore it to a promotional appearance during the run of Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra in September 2025 — she plays Chandra in the film, and Chandra does not wear this. It belongs to her own wardrobe, and it is here because it is the rare event dress built out of one idea you can actually shop: a blue-and-white resist dye, and nothing else competing with it.

The dress is a sleeveless floor-length fit-and-flare in a cobalt-and-white shibori tie-dye. The neckline is a high round jewel neck — no collar, no placket, no trim of any kind — and the armholes are cleanly bound. The bodice is panelled with princess seams and fitted close, and then the waist does the thing that makes the dress: instead of sitting at the natural waist it **drops to the hip**, and the skirt is box-pleated off that low yoke into a very full sweep. The dye is graded rather than even. The bodice reads as almost solid blue with sharp white branching veins through it — a crackle or lightning resist, not a soft cloudy tie-dye — and by the hem the balance has inverted to mostly white with bold blue splashes across it and a white band at the very bottom. The fabric has a slight sheen and enough body to hold the pleats, which reads as a cotton-silk or a modal satin. There is no dupatta, no jacket and no belt.

At the ears, a pair of gold open hoops, medium sized, twisted into an irregular molten-looking teardrop rather than a plain round tube. They are the only jewellery in the look — the raised hand in the footage is bare, with no rings, no bracelet and no watch — and that is the point of it. Her nails are a deep red, which is the only other colour anywhere.

On her feet, flat ivory open-toe slides: ivory footbed, ivory sole, no heel and no back strap, with one diagonal band across the toes carrying a gold chain-link embellishment. They are worth listing precisely because flats are what she actually wears to these things, and the hem lifts clear of them in the footage so they can be read properly rather than guessed at.

One thing worth saying plainly: no outlet has credited who made any of these three pieces, and none of the labels below are hers. They are lookalikes chosen to get you the same idea at a price you would actually spend, and each one names exactly where it differs from what is on screen.