For costume designer Neha R Bajaj, the mandate was clear when the makers of the upcoming multi-lingual film Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups approached her to style the actors — character-driven styling where design is inseparable from storytelling. And that’s exactly what she delivered. Proof: the much-talked-about looks of Kiara Advani and Huma Qureshi in the Yash-starrer.

“Given the scale of the cast, each character has a distinct stylistic language. The costumes [had to] communicate their authority, emotional state, and the dynamics they bring into the story,” begins Bajaj.