Designer Anurag Gupta turns water hyacinth into runway couture

At Lakmé Fashion Week, designer Anurag Gupta presented sustainable couture made from invasive water hyacinth taken from village ponds. Through Project Biskohar, the collection draws on the craft skills of women from his hometown of Biskohar in Uttar Pradesh, a community historically associated with hereditary sex work, with the aim of empowering them.