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BRAND PROFILE When Fashion Marries Ayurveda Ayurganic by Lecoanet Hemant is a label that epitomises all things environment with clothes that are based on the principles of Ayurveda. Bindu Gopal Rao writes. Lecoanet Hemant has been using Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS)-certified cotton that is hand-treated following centuries-old Ayurvedic recipes. He is focused on creating garments that are free of synthetic chemicals and toxic irritants. The manner in which he treats the garments has been developed over time by a family of vaidyas, or doctors of Ayurveda. These form the core 76 I APPAREL I December 2019