A Sibling Style Story: The Suris
Meet the Suri sisters, a creative director and a VC. Nature vs. nurture, style edition.
When thinking about what impacts our style, you can’t help but think about nature versus nurture. What parts of how we dress feel encoded, and how much is shaped by our environment?
Even more interesting, how much of that comes from the people we grew up with. The ones in our house, around our age.
Better known as siblings.
Maybe you shared a room (+ a closet). The stolen earrings. The sweater that quietly migrates and you hope they don’t notice. The pants you’d never wear… then you see them wearing them and suddenly… you want them back. Fights over hand-me-downs, family heirlooms, maybe.
Many of us grew up sharing the same personal stylist with our siblings (our parents) until we came into our own affinities for colors, textures, silhouettes, aesthetic etc.
I was trying on a pair of Row Gala pants the other day and started thinking about the Olsens. I’ve been referencing them since I was 10 years old and here I am 25 years later still taking their fashion cues..buying what they sell me. At price points that keep finding new heights, oof!
Which made me think of other iconic sibling duos whose style had to have an impact on each other. And how that actually evolves over time.
Beyoncé and Solange. The Rodarte sisters. Haim. Halle and Chloe. Entire style languages formed in parallel, but never identical.
The Sibling Style Series
I wanted to explore that dynamic more directly. Sit down with siblings I know and get their take.
How sharing the same home for a period of time, plus DNA, shows up in how they dress. Where there are similarities, and where there are stark differences. How did the influence evolve?
And then there’s work environments. Whether that’s a courtroom, a creative studio, a hospital. Each with its own unspoken uniform and boundaries of expression.
But those boundaries have shifted. What used to dictate exactly how you showed up has loosened, and people are showing up more as themselves, across industries. The line between professional identity and personal expression feels more blurred than ever.
Which makes looking at siblings even more interesting. Same upbringing, same original stomping ground, but completely different rooms to show up in.
Anki and Simran felt like the perfect place to start.
The Suri Sisters
I recently met sisters, Anki & Simran Suri, whose styles felt so different, but you could tell there were traces of influence. Not too far off in age Anki (23) works in creative direction in fashion tech and Simran (28) a venture capitalist at a consumer fund. A stark contrast, you might think.
Here were two sisters shaped by the same mother’s eye for matching holiday outfits, now in completely different worlds and expressing themselves accordingly.
What became clear pretty quickly was how much their mom, Bani’s style, and their connection to their Indian heritage, still shows up in how they dress today.
The Language of Getting Dressed - Q & A
What inspires you the most while dressing? Culture, comfort, context? Any references?
Simran:
“I’m in a lot of different rooms and settings, so it’s usually a mix of all three. I lean toward simple elevated basics, neutral colors—things that work across contexts but still feel like me. Comfort and practicality matter too.
I don’t know if I have one favorite reference. The elevated basics, 90s looks tend to be what I gravitate the most towards, similar to Disha Patani and Hailey Bieber. I feel like this kind of fits with most of the activities that I do in New York. It fits most of what I’m doing in New York.”
Anki:
“Comfort and culture. I like to break the rules and ignore context a bit. I’ll show up to a bar in linen pants and a vintage t-shirt, as long as the shoes and jewelry tell a different story.
I dress intuitively, with a touch of culture—dresses with pants, bangles, juttis, kajal. I really love Tanya Ravichandran’s style. The American Ivy series from Articles Of Interest changed my perspective on clothing, especially having gone to boarding school. And everyone on the L to Canarsie inspires me daily.”
What are 3 pieces you can’t live without?
Simran:
“My Tissot watch from my parents, the evil eye ring that I got from Turkey, and the green Ferragamo bag that I bought myself after I got promoted.”
Anki:
“My Tissot watch from my parents, my paint-stained jeans (the first item I ever thrifted) and my beaded juttis.”
Through Each Other’s Eyes
If you woke up in your sister’s career, would you dress differently?
Simran:
“Probably. If I were a creative director, I’d have access to more clothes, so I’d experiment more.”
Anki:
“Sneaker culture is weirdly big in VC. I’d still be a sneaker head, but probably lean more into athletic wear. Simran does comfy in a very put-together way—I wouldn’t do it the same, but something similar.”
How do you see your sister’s style? What are you stealing?
Simran:
“Anki’s more eclectic and adventurous, but we’re not that different. She plays more with color, shape, and texture. I usually think, I wouldn’t have thought of that—but it makes sense. I’m definitely stealing her orange Issey Miyake long sleeve.”
Anki:
“Way more minimalist and 90s than me. I’d wear almost everything—except the leggings. Her style is timeless and intentional. I’m stealing her beaded clutch and maybe the green Ferragamo, if I dare.”
Styling by Code
Have you used styling apps? Why didn’t they stick?
Simran:
“I’ve tried a lot for work. None stuck. Uploading your closet is annoying, so I usually just remember outfits I like and recreate them.”
Anki:
“They all feel too sanitized. I want my clothes on the floor. I want to dig, try things, let it come together naturally. That mess is how I know I’ve made something good.
Most apps remove that.
The only one I still use—slightly biased—is Cloud Closet. I can pull inspiration and document the end result. Posting feels like the reward.”
Friction, more broadly?
Simran:
“Dressing for a full day in New York is hard. Multiple events, lots of walking. The shoes are always the problem.”
Anki:
“Fit. Fabric. Shape. That’s the hardest part. I buy different sizes on purpose just to get the right feel. No app understands that. I’m the one who has to actually wear it.”
For the Suri sisters, pieces earn their place for different reasons, but family, milestones and location carry weight for both.
And while influencers and algorithms may have a whole new role in shaping what we wear today, it’s interesting to look at where we all started. Someone else was buying our clothes for us, I don’t know, for at least the first fifteen years of our lives.
Think about the people in your family and how they’ve shaped your style. How much of it feels like nurture versus nature?
