Padma Lakshmi Designed a Lingerie Assortment With a Nod to Her Heritage

All through the years, we have seen Padma Lakshmi dominate the meals trade from her host gigs at a variety of culinary TV reveals like “Prime Chef” and “Style of the Nation” to her numerous cookbooks. She additionally landed her first SI Swimsuit cowl in 2023 on the age of 52, and it almost broke the web. Now, she’s including designer to her lengthy record of accomplishments by creating a set of lingerie, swimwear, and loungewear with Naked Requirements.

Lakshmi usually outlets at Naked Requirements so working with them was a no brainer. She loves that they carry all kinds of manufacturers, noting that you may get an Adidas sports activities bra and a frilly lingerie set multi functional place. “[The Bare Necessities team] instructed me that over 95% of their client base is feminine, and I preferred that,” she tells PS. “It means ladies are shopping for for themselves, and that is what I need. I needed to talk on to ladies, and I need the gathering to be one thing ladies attain for persistently and that they love as a result of it is helpful to them. They simply really feel good in it, and each time they put on it, they really feel snug. They really feel at dwelling wherever they’re and actually good in their very own our bodies.”

When designing the gathering, Lakshmi paid particular consideration to the colour palette. A colour she options all through the road is daring magenta, a shade that reminds her of her heritage. “Magenta might be my favourite colour. You see pops of sizzling pink, however you do not see these blue-magenta hues, the colour that is very prevalent in Indian uncooked silk. It is nearly known as the double shade (referencing Kanjeevaram silk),” she says. Together with core neutrals like black and beige, she additionally incorporates child blue. “Child blue can be a colour that is actually flattering and goes effectively with the magenta, but additionally is one thing wearable for everyone.”

Performance was additionally prime of thoughts. “Each merchandise has this peekaboo aspect on the base of the bra. You want this since you want that help when you’ve got greater boobs. And that is one thing I needed to be taught, too. I used to be like, ‘Why are these bras so matronly?’ Now I do know, so we tried to search out artistic options to that,” she says.

With this assortment and partnership, Lakshmi goals to empower ladies at each stage of their lives. She has a sleek strategy to growing older, one she realized whereas cooking together with her grandmother. “When she taught me make sambar, or a lentil stew, she would maintain my hand again and he or she would say, ‘Do not put that in but.’ Each ingredient in that stew has an applicable time it ought to go into the pot, and in case you put it too early, it should lose its taste, and you are not going to have the ability to benefit from the pleasure of what that cilantro or spice can carry. She mentioned, ‘It’s important to know when is the precise time for sure issues’, and I believe that is true of life,” says Lakshmi.

Regardless of your age, Lakshmi stresses that self love is essential. “I all the time say, give your self grace, prioritize, and be type to your self such as you would to a pal you like. We are sometimes extra supportive to our girlfriends or our colleagues than we’re to ourselves. I am asking you to speak to your self like somebody you like.”

Forward, uncover Lakshmi’s favourite items from her Naked Requirements assortment.

This interview has been edited and condensed for readability.