Shefalee Vasudev

Tribute | India’s most famous couturier Rohit Bal lived by his heart and died by it

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Tribute | India’s most famous couturier Rohit Bal lived by his heart and died by it

The assignment you have been dreading for a year is here. Couturier Rohit Bal’s obituary. He died on Diwali, November 1, 2024, at 63. His mortal remains — buried under flowers at Delhi’s Lodhi Crematorium with the face laid bare for last respects before the pyre was lit — looked irrevocably frozen in time. Love … Read more

Tribute What does Japanese designer Issey Miyake’s inspiration mean today for Indian fashion?

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Tribute What does Japanese designer Issey Miyake’s inspiration mean today for Indian fashion?

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