Renowned fashion designer Satya Paul, who made the sari modern, dies at 79

Paul started his journey in retail in the late 1960s and later ventured into export of Indian handloom products to high-end retail stores in Europe and America

Fashion designer Satya Paul, known for giving the Indian sari a contemporary twist, died in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadhu. at the age of 79. Paul, who had suffered a stroke in December, passed away at the Isha Yoga Center on Wednesday.

“He had a stroke on December 2 and as he was slowly recovering in the hospital, his only wish was to get all the things he was being monitored and poked with removed so he could fly away. We finally got clearance from doctors to take him back to Isha Yoga Center, his home since 2015,” his son Puneet Nanda