Fashion Week: The traditional, the androgynous and the ultra feminine
The phrase ‘richness of Indian culture and tradition’ is used so often that it almost loses its meaning. Unless there is a close encounter with it. Mine was a sartorial one. Indian textiles, fabrics,...
View ArticleFashion Week: The one to watch out for
Beautiful clothes aside, designer Aneeth Arora’s show was remarkable for its models — they seemed to be having fun on the runway. It almost seemed like Arora’s creations let them be their usual...
View ArticleWhich is the greatest Bollywood film ever?
It’s been a hundred years since the first Indian feature film “Raja Harishchandra” in 1913. Since then, Bollywood has made tens of thousands of films – good, bad and middling. Tell us the movie that...
View ArticleTwitter in India to come alive in new documentary
Four years ago, Singapore-based documentary filmmaker Tan Siok Siok asked her Twitter friends to contribute ideas for a Twitter documentary. That was the beginning of her crowd-sourced film...
View ArticleInterview: India has a lot to offer in terms of Twitter stories –...
Two Indian social media consultants, Avinash Kalla and Bhaskar Pant, plan to release “Twittamentary India”, a film made in collaboration with Singapore-based documentary filmmaker Tan Siok Siok. Like...
View ArticleIndian women get a new look, with some help from Pernia Qureshi
In a country where styling has not always been recognized as a worthy craft, Pernia Qureshi has put her profession at the forefront of Bollywood fashion. Qureshi styled actress Sonam Kapoor for 2010′s...
View ArticleIn pursuit of the perfect lehenga in Delhi’s Chandni Chowk
Each evening, after pulling their shutters down, sari salesmen in Delhi’s Chandni Chowk market sit down for three hours to fold their wares: embroidered, embellished saris and lehengas that customers...
View ArticleIndia will be an important art centre in five years – India Art Fair director
If Christie’s debut auction in Mumbai last month is any indication, buyers are flocking towards Indian art as investors shake off the remnants of an economic downturn. An untitled work by abstract...
View ArticleRoom for experimentation at Delhi fashion week
(Any opinions expressed here are not those of Thomson Reuters) The collection that designer duo Shantanu and Nikhil displayed at the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week in New Delhi last week had all...
View ArticleColour is India’s over-hyped commodity, fashion designer Rahul Mishra says
(Any opinions expressed here are not those of Thomson Reuters) Rahul Mishra is the man of the moment in fashion. He just brought home the international Woolmark Prize, the most coveted prize in the...
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