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Sunday , March 16, 2008 at 23 : 04
We all have an opinion on fashion. Usually its bad. Some say its tamasha, some vulgarity, some others think it is foolish to talk about fashion in a country that has more than 800 million hungry people. Let me then, as I conclude my tenth fashionweek, try to explain that all of points of view are equally valid and invalid. Fashion like art is about taste. It's about aesthetics, its about something integral to the way we live - clothes. Now there are good clothes and bad clothes. Good clothes make us feel better about ourselves, bad clothes, well, bad clothes hurt more than our self esteem, they hurt our aesthetic sense. In all the years that I have seen the fashionweek, there has been some great moments, many terrible ones. Some have made me cringe with pain and despair at the lack of vision and creativity, some have filled me with joy. In it all, I...
Friday , March 14, 2008 at 20 : 09
For the last few minutes, the temperature at the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week has suddenly soared. All around me reporters from Hindi channels are running around, mikes are being tossed, lives done, questions asked - you would think there is a big story breaking at the fashionweek. Actually its nothing. A neckline of a dress in the show of one of India's best designers, a creative genius, Rajesh Pratap Singh, slipped, showing one nipple. That's it! The Hindi channels have found the story of their lives. This evening, the shows will be full of endless loops of that one shot of the dress slipping, camouflaged badly so that the channels can claim that they were trying to hide the nipple and yet showing it quite clearly, exciting their viewers and themselves. This story now will go on and on and on as if no one has ever seen a nipple before. It is particularly sad that...
Thursday , March 13, 2008 at 15 : 00
What really counts is how you wear them? How you mix and match them? From the time, 2004 I think, when Karl Lagerfeld designed clothes for Zara, fashion has never been the same again. Models like Kate Moss have taught us perhaps the most important lesson of fashion - you do not have to be a brand slave to be fashionable. As long as you wear or carry one eye-catching element in your ensemble, you are IT and that doesn't mean, like this magazine girl I saw at the fashionweek last time, that you have to dress from head to toe in Moschino. So for all of you who think fashion is not important OR, worse, that you cannot afford it anymore, know that the world of fashion is becoming more democratic than ever before. Today, it doesn't matter what you are wearing as long as you carry an IT bag. That's why in the last few years more attention has...
Thursday , March 13, 2008 at 12 : 47
Most people who have heard the word designer in this country have also heard of a man called Rohit Bal. He is the man most often caught by the cameras dancing a little jig on the runway. He always dances the same way - hips swaying from left to right, bending slightly hip-hop style and arms in the air, fingers pointing to the roof. He has danced this way for a decade, his dust-gold hair, cut in new fashion every season, swinging or perky depending on the mood. This is a man who has invented the idea of the designer in this country, done what the late Rohit Khosla had started to do in the early 90s before his sudden death. Rohit Bal is also a man who has never diverted from the idea of India in his clothes. His clothes have forever and always been predominantly Indian, right down to the final namaskar that he does on the runway. For all...
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