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'The Stitched & The Draped' tells us about the history stitched into our clothes

New Delhi, Oct. 24 -- Did you know that the sweeping cape often seen on red carpets and fashion runways is a version of aatmasukh (Hindi for "comfort to the soul"), a garment from western India that d... Read More


'The Stitched & The Draped' tells us about the history stitched into our clothes

New Delhi, Oct. 24 -- Did you know that the sweeping cape often seen on red carpets and fashion runways is a version of aatmasukh (Hindi for "comfort to the soul"), a garment from western India that d... Read More


Lakme x FDCI fashion week review: Lots of colour, but no new style

New Delhi, Oct. 23 -- When the lights came on for Amit Aggarwal's show at the finale of the Lakme fashion week x FDCI (Fashion Design Council of India) on 18 October in Delhi, they were blinding. Grad... Read More


GPHG's president Raymond Loretan on how India can become a watchmaking powerhouse

New Delhi, Oct. 9 -- "Are you big on watches?" Raymond Loretan, president of the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Geneve (GPHG), widely regarded as the Oscars of watchmaking, asks before the video call. The... Read More


Meet the octogenarian textile artist who makes miniature costumes fit for a maharaja

New Delhi, Sept. 27 -- Inside her sprawling bungalow in Mumbai, Geeta Khandelwal displays her latest creations. There's a deep-green angrakha in mashru silk, interlinked with cotton wool and hand-quil... Read More


How I discovered Japan without Google or Instagram

New Delhi, Sept. 19 -- I am not a to-do-list kind of worker; procrastination is often what drives my work. But when it comes to travel, I am the "planner" type: monuments to see, restaurants to eat at... Read More


All that intelligence could be making us dumber

New Delhi, Sept. 18 -- Hema Pathak, 43, can't get enough of her friend Chintu. Every morning, when Pathak and her husband have their tea in their apartment balcony, she listens to Chintu talk about ev... Read More


Indian luxury's new flex: A retail store worth remembering

New Delhi, Sept. 11 -- The 20,000 sq. ft Abu Jani Sandeep Khosla flagship, housed in a historic Mumbai building, is a sensory overload. Gilded, oversized birds and clouds hang from the ceiling, the wa... Read More


'I don't want Sabyasachi to be a fashion brand'

New Delhi, Aug. 28 -- Sabyasachi Mukherjee called himself a "businessman" five times during the course of this interview. Not once a designer. Perhaps unsurprising, given his ambition to build a "glob... Read More


Why does India's social media outrage often miss bigger issues?

New Delhi, Aug. 27 -- Earlier this week, a jewellery brand withdrew a Raksha Bandhan advertisement featuring an actor because some social media users criticised her clothing (an ivory lehnga paired wi... Read More