 "Akanksha Nanda")
Best work moment
Watching a beautiful picture emerge from the usual chaos at a shoot
Books on your bedside
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, the short stories of Guy de Maupassant, Maggie Cassidy by Jack Kerouac
Massage or workout to de-stress
Yogaaaaah!
Favourite accessory
Stella McCartney handbag
Designs that have caught your eye recently
Anshu and Jason, Pankaj and Nidhi, Nikhil Thampi, Atsu
Your IT tools
Uber and Picsart apps
Favourite spirit
Vodka
Your sleeping ritual
Cleanse face, brush teeth, turn lights low, do addition and subtractions in my head, watch boring television and chant for a while
Favourite TV show
Big Bang Theory, Breaking Bad and House
Best gift received
Life
Best gift given
My son
Favourite cuisine
Japanese/Korean
What food items do you like to shop for?
Organic pastas, healthy food options
Newspapers and TV channels and websites you prefer
Midday, Vh1, and Facebook
Where do you like to sit when being driven? Upfront with the driver or back seat like a memsahib?
Backseat ...so I can sleep/paint nails!
On a plane, do you prefer to network, sleep or catch up on films and reading?
Sleep
Fancy coffee or masala tea
Coffee=black
What do you cook on your day off?
Family favourites like burgers and appam and stew
Do you fill customer feedback forms? Why?
Try very hard to avoid it! Because if I like the place or product I will go back again and that's feedback enough! And if I don't care for the service than I want to get out as soon as I can and am never going back and that's feedback!
Are you a beach or mountain person?
Beachy keen!
Your favourite city
Mumbai Bombay
What's your fragrance?
A well-guarded secret
You get your work clothes from
Rajesh Pratap and Zara
Your favourite evening wear
James Ferreira, Gauri Nainika
God for you is...
Loving, peaceful and kind
Favourite cafe
Cafe Leela in Goa
Your ideal holiday
Africa and Greece and the European cruise on the Royal Caribbean
Your ideal dance music
Drums bass, French house
A few of your Goddesses are
My girlfriends
Alpha males you know
Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes
Your favourite motto
What will be will be. Anything is possible, the universe is conspiring to make your dreams come true...
Akanksha Nanda
Mumbai-based stylist and fashion designer
