“I have never owned a real designer item. And yet, I have never felt more fashionable. Style is not what you buy. It’s what you convincingly pretend to own.”

Several gallery images appeared to show Bhide wearing a unique sari-blouse combo. However, forensics showed that the sari was lifted from a 2021 FabIndia catalog while the blouse came from a Zara product photo. The two were digitally merged, and Bhide’s face was pasted onto a model’s body. In other words,