Summer Fashion with a (fun) soul

Summer Fashion with a (fun) soul

For a hot minute slow fashion became synonymous with shapeless sacks floating down the runway in earth-toned hues. But not anymore. Sewing some fun in to fashion is our mid-summer and monsoon special issue. Leaving behind blah silhouettes and a severe palette, a few sustainable labels in India have livened up the rather dull conversation with something meaningful to say. Founders of our favourite conscious fashion labels pick the ‘it’ piece from their collections this season and tell us why we need them in our closets.

A ‘Sui’ in Time

A ‘Sui’ in Time

Third generation entrepreneur Mahima Gujral’s love for travel is the inspiration behind her fresh sustainable indi luxe label, Sui by Sue Mue I opened the small box. Bundled with the brochures were a couple of swatches of soft hemp and organic cotton, an up cycled …

10 Slow Fashion Labels We Loved at LFW S/R 2018

10 Slow Fashion Labels We Loved at LFW S/R 2018

Highlighting innovative fabric blends, intricate weaves, flattering silhouettes, and a wider colour pallete, all with an ethos rooted in the heartland, we present our favourite slow fashion labels at Lakmé Fashion Week Summer/Resort 2018 Till recently, sustainable, India modern ready-to-wear was more floppy than fashionable. …

The Kolkata Dossier

The Kolkata Dossier

“So in the streets of Calcutta I sometimes imagine myself a foreigner, and only then do I discover how much is to be seen, which is lost so long as its full value in attention is not paid. It is the hunger to really see …

Shapeshifting Fashion

Shapeshifting Fashion

Shape shifting, empathetic  fashio—Bodice The Indian belly is a wondrous thing. It expands with nary a crumb and contracts with much reluctance, after much coaxing and deprivation. For this capricious sphere, the much-loved drawstring, the humble naala exists. One of the great fashion inventions, the …

A Spoonful of Slow Food

A Spoonful of Slow Food

I’d visited Italy a few years ago, where the slow food movement took shape. This is an abridged version of a piece I had done for Elle, which appeared in the magazine in 2011. The Slow Food Movement has billowed into our sculleries from Italy, giving …