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The Smart Way to Socially Responsible Luxury
Images by Raju Patil for Forbes India Social entrepreneurship and bespoke tailoring skills are brought together by Suresh and Mahesh Ramakrishnan, who with their Savile Row tailoring outfit Whitcomb...
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YSL to Saint Laurent Paris?
Burberry lost the s and Dior lost the Christian but the news that Yves Saint Laurent is unceremoniously dropping the first name of its eponymous founder does come as a bit of a surprise. Yet as the...
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Flying the Flag
Aquascutum and Barbour In Brighton, India is eternally present in the Indo-Saracenic flight of fantasy that is Brighton Pavilion, an erstwhile Regent’s pleasure palace. Inspired by Mughal...
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City Retreat- The Imperial Hotel, Janpath, Delhi
Reservation signs lined-up ready for eminent guests at The Imperial’s Spice Route restaurant. A real retreat from the heat and noise of Delhi are its grand hotels. I love the Leela for its opulence,...
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Looking back and forward: Inspiration India
Whilst archiving my work as luxury editor for an Indian business newspaper I came across this one that I wrote reviewing Chanel‘s Paris:Bombay collection shown in December 2011. The article had to of...
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Neo Drape
Swati Rao who along with Shalini Sud will be presenting a paper on the sari as Neo Drape tomorrow at the second non-Western fashion conference at the London College of Fashion, posted a rather cute...
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Holy Holi: Manish Arora
Adoring re-watching the Manish Arora fashion film, first showcased at Paris Fashion week in September 2013 which went on to win the Grand Prix at Diane Pernet’s A Shaded View on Fashion (ASVOF) film...
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Sabyasachi Dreaming
A selection of images from Sabyasachi, Dolce and Gabbana and Aashni and Co. It’s that time of year when one is faced with planning suitable attire for festive parties. That is why I rather squealed...
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Well hello Friday…
A photo find to provide inspiration for the weekend. This is a vintage Jaeger advert, the location is Rajasthan. I love the way the model is wafting around nonchalantly with the flower garlands hung...
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Devdas and Scrabble…
Its festive season, so we are taking the excuse to watch Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s 2002 version of Devdas …and comparing it to Dev-D, Anurag Kashyap’s 2009 version of the same story written in 1901 by...
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