India, Oct. 4 -- The crafts are Indian, the price tags are foreign, and the credit is usually the first thing to go missing

Open almost any almirah in an Indian home and out come the usual things: a dupatta from a mother's trunk, a bandhani skirt sent by an aunt in Gujarat, Kolhapuri chappals that bit the feet for a week before they softened, and the mirror-work bag that comes out every Navratri. Nobody calls any of this luxury, yet the same things keep landing on Western runways with a foreign name, a price in dollars and barely a word about India, as if they had been dreamt up somewhere between Milan and Manhattan. The dupatta became a "Scandinavian scarf" on TikTok, Ralph Lauren listed a printed skirt "inspired by Bandhani", Prada sen...