Neelam's Book Launch
Join me to celebrate the launch of my debut book - a part memoir exploration of personal style, identity and belonging.
The day is split into three parts. More details below.
Celebrating Personal Style & Identity: The Workshop
A guided exploration of personal style and identity encouraging you to go beyond the gaze.
Join me for an interactive workshop exploring key themes from the book including identity, style and visual presence.
10:30am: Arrival
10:45am: Opening & Introductions
A guided, open conversation to unravel the impact that our sense of identity and personality has on our self expression through our personal style.
How we currently feel in our personal style
The relationship between style, identity, and self-expression
Early influences and messages around how we “should” present ourselves and the concept of ‘gaze’
11:00am: Colour As Language
An interactive exploration of the cultural symbolism, emotional impact and physical nuance of colour.
Exploring colour beyond aesthetics: symbolism, psychology, western norms and expectations
Live colour draping demonstration to observe how different colours interact with different skin tones, undertones and contrasts
Interactive breakout session to experiment with draping in small groups and to reflect on which colours feel energising, in harmony or off balance
12:00pm Beyond Body Shape
An opportunity to reframe, expand and reclaim the physical body while learning how to honour and celebrate our unique form.
A reframing of the body beyond rigid categories:
The body as a place of belonging, not something to be fixed
Exploring the nuances and diversity within global majority women’s bodies
Cultural and personal associations with body image
Practical Application:
Introduction to body shapes as tools not rigid rules
How to use proportion, balance, and silhouette to feel more at ease and aligned in your clothing
12:30pm Reflections
12:45pm: Book signing & Networking
Light refreshments will be provided.
Author Conversation & Reading
A live conversation and reading with Neelam Mistry-Thaker and Trisha Chauhan-Baiden.
Join Trisha and I for an intimate conversation exploring the inspiration behind the book, the key themes and my creative journey.
3pm: Arrival
3:15pm: Welcome & Introductions
3:20pm: Conversation & Reading hosted by Trisha Chauhan-Baiden
4pm: Audience Q&A
4:15pm: Networking & Book Signing
Light refreshments will be provided.
Celebration
An invite-only evening with friends, family and community to join together and celebrate.
Welcome drinks and light bites will be provided.
About The Book
What happens when the clothes in your wardrobe tell one story but your true identity tells another?
In her debut book, personal stylist Neelam Mistry-Thaker invites you into a rich, colourful journey of self-discovery. Shaped by the richness of her Indian heritage, complexity of her British upbringing and the reality of growing up between cultures as a British-born South Asian, Neelam explores the quiet, lifelong work of navigating two worlds. Blending memoir, cultural reflection and style wisdom, Neelam uncovers the pressure to shrink, adapt and code switch just to belong.
But this is also a story of reclamation.
With warmth, honesty and a vibrant eye for detail, Neelam shows how your wardrobe can become a place of empowerment by forming a deeper connection to the home of your body, learning the power of colour and turning your visual identity into a form of expression to support the authentic transformation you’re stepping into.
Through personal stories, practical tools and gentle prompts, she helps you explore the narratives that have kept you stuck and how you can begin to use your wardrobes to weave together the parts of yourself you were never meant to separate.
For every woman who has ever felt ‘too much’ in one space and ‘not enough’ in another, this book is an invitation to dress in a way that honours all of you.
It’s time to create one identity that feels beautifully and unapologetically yours.
About Neelam
Neelam is a Personal Stylist whose work centres on identity, visibility and belonging. As a British South Asian woman, her own journey has involved navigating the space between multiple cultures, identities and expectations. These experiences have shaped her belief that personal style is about far more than clothing. It is a powerful tool for understanding who we are, how we have been shaped and how we choose to express ourselves.
Through her work, Neelam helps women explore who they are beyond the roles, expectations and inherited narratives that have influenced their sense of self. Using personal style as a gateway to deeper reflection, she creates spaces for women to reconnect with their identity and understand their relationship between belonging, self-expression and visibility.
Her approach draws on storytelling, conversation and self-inquiry, encouraging women to move beyond external definitions of who they should be and towards a more authentic understanding of themselves. Whether working one-to-one, facilitating workshops, consulting with brands or writing about identity and culture, Neelam's work invites people to consider what becomes possible when we stop seeing ourselves through the expectations of others.
At the heart of her practice is a desire to help women cultivate a stronger sense of self, express themselves with greater confidence and intention, and find a deeper sense of belonging within who they already are.
About Trisha Chouhan-Baiden
Trisha Chauhan-Baiden is the Founder of Level Up London, a coaching and community platform built for global majority women navigating identity, self-assurance and belonging.
Through 1:1 coaching, masterminds and community spaces, she helps women reconnect with who they are outside of social conditioning, leverage their strengths, lived experience and resources and step fully into their power.
Her work is grounded in intersectionality, empowerment principles, decolonial practices and Black and Brown feminism — creating space for women to be witnessed, supported and unapologetically themselves.