I met Vivienne Westwood for the first [and last] time at The Elephant Family Animal Ball in London in 2019. The charity was started by Mark Shand, Queen Consort Camilla Parker Bowles’ late brother, to protect Asian elephants from extinction in the wild. I didn’t know she was coming for the sit-down dinner hosted at … Read more
Ten years after he ventured South with an outpost in Hyderabad, Tarun Tahiliani has opened the doors to his luxury address in Bengaluru. But unlike his most recent Mumbai store, which is in the Edwardian neoclassical style Ballard Estate, this one is a charming colonial-era “cottage” with those distinct monkey tops seen in a few … Read more
The gold lame hooded dress in Yves Saint Laurent’s AW/1991 collection was suggestive of sari drapery, while gold encrusted embroidery completed the French designer’s dream of India; (centre) the draped shirt dress by Gianfranco Ferré for SS/2002 reflects his interpretation of the sari, in the spiralling construction, and the many years he spent working and travelling in India … Read more