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Vijay Deverakonda Fronts Ramraj Cotton's Wedding Range

Ad Tribe! Bureau2 min read
A folded length of fine cloth and a brass oil lamp, as halftone cutouts, for Vijay Deverakonda fronting Ramraj Cotton's wedding range

Ramraj Cotton has named Vijay Deverakonda as brand ambassador for its Wedding Collection, a pure silk range built for weddings and auspicious occasions.

  • Brand: Ramraj Cotton
  • Ambassador: Vijay Deverakonda
  • Range: the Lagnaa Wedding Collection
  • Products: pure silk dhotis, silk shirts and angavastrams, with other wedding and festive wear

Why Vijay Deverakonda For This Range Specifically

The signing is for the wedding collection rather than for the brand as a whole, and that distinction is the strategy. Ramraj is known for everyday traditional wear, a category bought on habit, fit and price, where an ambassador adds little.

Wedding wear is the opposite. It is infrequent, expensive, photographed heavily and chosen partly on how the buyer imagines looking in it. That is a purchase an aspirational face can genuinely move, which is why the association is pointed at the silk range and not the daily one.

The Audience Problem It Solves

Traditional menswear brands face a familiar generational gap: the garment is unchanged, but the younger buyer is deciding between it and a sherwani or a suit, and often deciding on the strength of how modern it feels rather than how traditional it is.

Putting a contemporary star in the silk dhoti is an argument that the garment is a style choice rather than an inherited obligation. The collection itself makes the same case, pairing pure silk with what the brand describes as refined designs and modern styling.

What The Company Said

K. R. Nagarajan, founder and chairman of Ramraj Cotton, said pure silk clothing has always held a special place in Indian weddings, and that the aim is to bring a cultural tradition carried across generations together with the tastes and style of today.

Through the partnership Deverakonda will represent the Pure Silk Wedding Collection, which the brand describes as combining pure silk fabrics with refined designs and modern styling while retaining the elements associated with Indian wedding tradition. The collection sits alongside the rest of the wedding and festive range rather than replacing it.

For a brand whose name is built on cotton, a silk line fronted by a film star is also a statement about where it expects to grow. More brand news.

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