Alia Bhatt attends the Gucci Cruise 2025 Fashion Show at Tate Modern on May 13, 2024 in London, England | Photo Credit: GETTY IMAGES Actor Alia Bhatt attended the Gucci Cruise show 2025 at the Tate Modern art gallery in London, hosted by the Italian luxury brand’s creative director Sabato De Sarno. The actor’s trip … Read more
Sabyasachi Mukherjee’s look from the Met Gala 2024, at the Metropolitan Museum Art in New York | Photo Credit: sabyasachiofficial/Instagram Well-known designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee became the first Indian fashion designer to walk the Met Gala carpet. Sabyasachi shared his look from the coveted event on his Instagram handle. In an elegant appearance, Sabyasachi wore an … Read more
When Sabyasachi Mukherjee sets the stage, nobody dares step out of line. Not the 250-odd guests attending his high jewellery showcase at The Oberoi, Delhi, in ‘strictly black’, not the sommelier instructed to pour superb Châteauneuf-du-Pape, and not celebrity wedding designer Devika Narain, who hand-picked the reddest apples for his 24 ft table laden with … Read more
Upstairs, in Tarun Tahiliani’s massive Gurugram atelier with exposed brickwork and vaulted skylights, is an 850 sq. ft. room. Twenty-two full-sized glass and wood cupboards, built parallelly, hold 6,000 physical items, including original swatches from his repertoire of embroideries. With crystal, Swarovski, kashida from Kashmir, jamewar, fine-hand aari, zardozi, Parsi gara and resham, the master … Read more
“India is at the centre of the world and I am at the centre of this centre.” Salim and Jamal, the two protagonist brothers from the movie Slumdog Millionaire, discuss their ambitious plan of surviving in a brutal Bombay with this line. If you re-adjust the lens to 2023, it could very well be Sabyasachi Mukherjee … Read more
Saeed Ur Rahman displays a rangkat Banarasi sari | Photo Credit: Sangeetha Devi Dundoo Saeed Ur Rahman, the Banarasi masterweaver who works with weavers across 800 looms, quotes lines from a Majrooh Sultanpuri poem when asked how he and his family grew from strength to strength and came to be known as one of the … Read more
What do we lose when a designer like Issey Miyake — with global impact on how the human form can determine the shape of clothes, the dance between engineering, technology and textile — is gathered to dust? What do social media “likes” and traction to Miyake’s obituaries suggest? Miyake on the cover of TIME magazine … Read more