Can clothes made with time, love and detail heal the wearer? Sabysachi Mukherjee seems to think so. He wasn't a believer until 2016 when he was invited to spiritual leader Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev's Mahashivratri celebration at the headquarters of his organisation, Isha Foundation, on the outskirts of Coimbatore. He remembers telling Sadhguru that he is a cynic.

"I'm not a follower, but I do relate to his programmes that focus on social upliftment and work in the villages," Mukherjee tells mid-day. The conversation has led to a collaboration that will take stage at New York Fashion Week this Wednesday. It's here that Kolkata-based Mukherjee will join Norma Kamali, Mara Hoffman and Mimi Prober as part of Fashion For Peace, a group presentation of conscious design in association with Isha Foundation.