Nivi Murthy
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Welcome to The IKKIVI Podcast, where we explore the vibrant intersection of fashion, culture, and conscious values. Each episode features leaders, change-makers, and disruptors from a variety of fields, doing incredible things. Our mission is to inspire and foster a community of creative and thoughtful individuals through compelling conversations that delve into their unique perspectives. Each episode invites you to reflect, engage, and grow, as we collectively shape a more conscious vibrant future. Tune in as we release new episodes every fortnight. Visit our store: https://www.ikkivi.com/
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Fashion becomes a route into Indian craft, labor and identity through patient interviews attentive to the systems behind creative work.
The IKKIVI Podcast follows clothing outward, tracing its connections to identity, craft, commerce and the land that supplies its materials. The host's interviews make fashion legible as a network of decisions: Nonita Kalra discusses education and employment in Indian fashion,…
A village artist gets the heirloom shelf; your souvenir reflex can take the afternoon off.
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A warm, values-led fashion conversation that moves from childhood taste to Indian fashion's future.
Nonita Kalra treats fashion as a language of selfhood, and that is what gives the conversation its shape. It begins with a childhood memory of neon green kola puris, then moves through the long habit of wearing black, painting a bedroom black, and using fashion to say what words…
A calm conversation about style, confidence, and dressing with more self-trust as life gets older.
It treats style as a question of confidence, belonging, and the choice to stop dressing for other people. The strongest stretch stays with the feeling of getting stuck in familiar clothes, then moves toward a more personal way of thinking about getting older, with room for…
Jewelry here reads as culture, armor, and a claim to be seen.
Poonam treats jewelry less like decoration and more like a way to carry culture, feeling, and identity. The pieces she describes draw on India and on a community that sees nature as something to honor, not ignore.
A clear-eyed look at why recycling is only a small part of the plastic problem.
The episode treats plastic waste less as a distant environmental issue than as a habit built into carpets, clothing, gadgets, and beauty products.
A quiet conversation about writing, attention, self-trust, and the discipline of making sense of life.
Ankita Shah's conversation treats writing as a way of sorting through life, feeling, and thought. It moves through curiosity, pattern, dissonance, attention, self-doubt, and the tension between the part of the mind that wants to create and the part that calls the ideas…
A steady, practical case for connection, boundaries, and secure attachment in parenting.
This piece makes a clear, plainspoken case for natural parenting and secure attachment. Tracey's comparison of connection to oxygen gives the argument a simple shape, and the bridge-and-guardrail metaphor helps turn an abstract idea into something a parent can picture.
A warm argument for travel that pays attention to people, place, and living tradition.
It frames tourism as storytelling, and the argument lands best when it stays close to village walks, rural life, and the small ways travel can feel personal instead of packaged.
PCOS, food, and self-knowledge come together in a grounded conversation.
Priyasha Saluja's conversation connects PCOS, food choices, and the ordinary work of feeling better. It moves from older assumptions about women's health and the lack of awareness or diagnosis to her path into plant-based cooking, quality ingredients, and Cinnamon Kitchen, with…
A fashion historian traces clothing from military gear to Erin Brockovich's push-up bra.
Intimates talk with real-room energy.
Fashion talk with receipts, taste, and texture.
Runway judgment with group-chat voltage.
Fashion starts with individuality here.
Nivi Murthy interviews Sakshi Gupta, founder of wedding design house The Girl With Ideas, about using flowers as carriers of memory, ritual, and cultural identity rather than decoration alone.
Bandhana Tewari describes moving from fashion journalism at Elle and Vogue, where she covered designers including Karl Lagerfeld and John Galliano, toward advocacy for mindful consumption.
Ayurveda starts with the body.
The IKKIVI Podcast features Isha Gupta, founder of Design Pataki, discussing how Indian design is moving from anonymous export production toward brands with global design standards.
Fashion needs its context.
Fashion starts with intuition here.
Dominique Drakeford names the fear without softening it.
Priyanka starts with color as memory, the kind tied to homes, food, scents, clothes, movement, books, and the people who changed how she looked at things.
Shillong is where the feeling sits.
Shahili Gomes-McCoy begins at the empty-tank point.
Jewelry begins as ornamentation.
Regenerative fashion starts in the soil.
Connection is the center here.
Vulnerability becomes dance material here.
One red dress holds many hands.
The conversation starts with responsibility.
Abundance begins as a gentler hold on things.
Plastic is everywhere.
Jewelry becomes armor here.
The choices feel easier now.
Paper looks cheap.
Nine years sit at the center.
Confidence arrives slowly.
Success moves slowly here.
Craft holds memory.
Priyasha starts with health.
Writing becomes a way to notice.
Travel becomes storytelling here.
Fashion begins before theory.