The hand embroidery on Athiya's anarkali took nearly 2,000 hours, using an age-old technique of crumpling and folding the gota by hand to create mango motifs. Ritu Kumar stated that the royalty of Rajasthan were known to adorn garments in pure cotton with gota embroidery, and that they took inspiration from this and had 200-count cotton muslin weaved by Phulia, Bengal artisans. (Photo | Athiya Shetty Instagram)