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The salwar is not dead

New Delhi, April 5 -- During a recent Iftar get-together at Old Delhi's grand Jama Masjid, a pair of pants caught my attention: the floor-sweeping farshi salwar, which borrows its name from the Urdu w... Read More


The salwar returns to the runway with a new look

New Delhi, April 5 -- During a recent Iftar get-together at Old Delhi's grand Jama Masjid, a pair of pants caught my attention: the floor-sweeping farshi salwar, which borrows its name from the Urdu w... Read More


The last generation of rafugars

New Delhi, April 4 -- "It's like losing a family member," says Manmeet Kaur Bindra, her five friends nodding in agreement. The neighbours in Delhi's Kalkaji are discussing the locality's darner or raf... Read More


What Vivienne Westwood's India show did not get right

New Delhi, April 3 -- It wasn't an April Fool's Day joke after all. As soon as the invite to Vivienne Westwood's 1 April show in Mumbai landed as a WhatsApp text, many thought it was a prank. It was g... Read More


Lakme fashion week in review: Too much Bollywood, too little ready-to-wear

New Delhi, April 1 -- When actor Kareena Kapoor Khan took the stage on 30 March in Mumbai to close the five-day Lakme Fashion Week, in collaboration with the Fashion Design Council of India and Relian... Read More


Sephora's global CEO Guillaume Motte has big plans for India

New Delhi, March 29 -- India's beauty market is getting too crowded-that's a line one hears often. New homegrown brands emerge almost every month while more international names announce their entry. G... Read More


25 years of India's fashion week

New Delhi, March 22 -- Next week, Lakme Fashion Week, in collaboration with the Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI) and Reliance, will mark its 25th anniversary with a five-day showcase, starting 2... Read More


'The luxury customer wants to be coddled much more'

New Delhi, March 12 -- Post covid one thing every shopper learnt was that they could buy everything, well, almost everything, online. That switch to the swipe of the phone has continued to push severa... Read More


The latest trend in fashion: a show venue that tells a story

New Delhi, March 11 -- Watching 81 models walk along a 500ft-long runway, wearing heavily embellished creations by Tarun Tahiliani last weekend at Mumbai's Bayview Lawns, it was hard to miss the backg... Read More


Shahnaz Husain: The OG beauty influencer

New Delhi, Feb. 28 -- Never have I ever been asked to cut a cake iced with the words "Welcome Home" after I've finished an interview. But at Shahnaz Husain's mansion in Delhi, it's a ritual for first-... Read More