Hours before walking up the Metropolitan Museum’s steps, Isha Ambani stood still as final adjustments were made to a hand-painted tissue silk sari woven with real gold. It was her first sari on the Met Gala carpet, and her first turn in Gaurav Gupta Couture — a deliberate choice, she said, for a night themed “Costume Art.” “Wearing a sari on the Met steps for the first time, especially this handwoven piece, fills me with immense pride,” Ambani said. “It feels like carrying a piece of India’s heritage on an iconic global stage.” “There is no garment more deserving of that space than the sari,” she added. “It is timeless, inherently elegant, and despite its deep-rooted tradition, it continues to feel endlessly relevant in the modern world.” You May Also Like In an interview from his Delhi atelier, Gupta said the look and choice of what to wear was unanimous between him, Ambani and stylist Anaita Shroff Adajania from the start.…