With companies like White Socks and Moza Socks bringing in the coolest designs, wearing statement-making socks have become the latest fashion fad in Kathmandu.

Following years of struggles to find clothes of their size and choice, a group of four friends have seen success in bringing bigger sizes to the market.

Kapali was sixteen years old when he started his career as a tailor at Model Tailors in New Road. While that shop is no more, back in the 60s, Model was known as one of the best and biggest tailoring places in Kathmandu, so much that even the royals got their suits tailored there.

Bilal Ahmed Shah loves his leather jackets. For as long as he can remember, he’s been wearing one.

While the popular adage ‘Good artists copy, great artists steal’ has been attributed to a number of famous personalities, the original, by writer WH Davenport Adams, goes differently—‘great poets imitate and improve whereas small ones steal and spoil’.