The 'Never Have I Ever' star shares how working with a professional stylist and a professional costume designer has changed her views on fashion and more:
"When I'm doing red carpet things, that's the work of three people: makeup artist, hair stylist, clothing stylist. That's an army of people doing that, but it's also very much so me, because I get to be a part of that process, of deciding what it's going to be. I love my stylist to death.is my homie. He's amazing, and he lets me see myself in all of these different styles, including the ones I couldn't see myself in.
Ramakrishnan wearing a dress by Ashwin Thiyagarajan — made from upcycled sari fabrics — to the 2021 Unforgettable Gala."A couple of months ago, he put me in with these really vibrant green pants and then this robe for a SAG panel that I did with Mindy Kaling. I would've never picked a robe — that was sort of like, 'Okay, interesting.' But it was really cool. I was like, 'Wow, this is not a lot of black.' It actually was really cool.
"When I was in high school, whenever I would go through my closet and just clear it out, see what clothes I could give away... every time I would see a shirt in the back that I'd be like, 'Oh wait, this is cute, why did I make it all the way to the back? That's sort of bad. That's sort of not cool. That's sort of wasteful. You forgot that the shirt existed. That's pretty privileged. Maybe you should relax.' After that, I was like, 'Okay, okay.