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“She wore Sabyasachi” is not shopping advice

Indian fashion media is very good at telling you what a celebrity spent. It almost never tells you what you could spend. We built the second half.

The gap

Everyone stops at the price tag

Read any celebrity fashion story in India and you will find the same shape: the name, the garment, the number, the end. It is a fun fact. It is not a decision you can act on.

What you usually get

Actress carries ₹2,12,000 tote to the airport

Accurate, well photographed, and completely useless if you were hoping to dress like that on a salary. There is nothing to do with this except feel poorer.

What we publish instead

That tote is Bottega Veneta at ₹2,85,000. This Lino Perros one is ₹1,499 and the shape is the same.

Every piece named, every original priced, every swap linked to a shop that will actually deliver to your pin code.

What we do

Every look decoded twice

01

Identify

A person looks at the photograph and works out what each piece is. Brand, item, the specific product where we can find it. Not a scraper, not a guess. Where we cannot confirm something we label it unidentified and leave it there.

02

Price

We record what the original costs, from the brand's own listing wherever one exists. That is the number the rest of the internet stops at.

03

Swap

Then the work everyone skips. We hunt for the closest thing you can actually buy, matched on cut, fabric and silhouette rather than colour alone, across Myntra, Ajio, Nykaa Fashion and the rest. It is labelled a swap because that is what it is.

The full method is written up here →

Money

How this is paid for

A site that lectures people about honest pricing cannot be vague about its own.

We earn a commission on some outbound links. If you buy through one, the retailer pays us a percentage out of their margin. You pay exactly the same price either way.

What that commission does not buy is the pick. A swap is chosen because it is the closest match we could find, and we link to retailers we earn nothing from whenever they have the better option. No brand can pay to be named as a swap or to be taken out of a comparison.

The full affiliate disclosure →

Standards

What we hold ourselves to

Who is behind this

CelebrityPersona is published from India and has decoded 23 looks so far. If you want to know who did a particular decode, ask and we will tell you.

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