Rooted, Relevant and Evolving: Rajiv Menon on Redefining South Asian Diasporic Art
An interview-style exploration of how a contemporary creative navigates heritage, migration, and modern luxury spaces.
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Notes from fashion's edges
What clothes say
when we look past the clothes.
I write to follow the systems, desires, histories and identities that gather around fashion—not to separate clothes from culture, but to see how tightly they are stitched together.
Indian Fashion is Rising as a Global Force: Diverse, Expressive and Impossible to Ignore
Charting how Indian designers, textiles, and aesthetics are moving from 'ethnic' niche to central players in global fashion.
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Subcultures Influencing Indian Fashion
An exploration of how subcultures and countercultures have shaped India's fashion landscape from pre-colonial times to the digital age.
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Who's Dictating When Everyone Is Preaching?
A critique of the crowded landscape of fashion advice, hot takes, and moral posturing online.
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Rethinking Trend Forecasting
Why micro-trends are dying and what comes next for the fashion cycle.
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Crafting Futures: Local Indian Fashion and Regenerative Sustainable Systems
How small-scale Indian fashion practices and craft ecosystems can inform regenerative, circular futures.
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Rich in Your Ways: A Conversation with Polite Society Designer Surmai Jain
An interview with the designer behind Polite Society on quiet glamour, drape, and dressing for one's own pleasure.
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Why do Sports Jerseys look more like Billboards?
An examination of how sponsorships, broadcast deals, and league economics have turned jerseys into crowded advertising spaces.
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Louis Vuitton SS26: Pharrell Williams' India is rooted in Reality and rendered in Reverence
A critical look at how Pharrell's LV collection engages with India as reference, fantasy, and marketplace.
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Yohji Yamamoto: Notebook on Cities and Clothes — A Film by Wim Wenders
Reflections on Wim Wenders' film about Yohji Yamamoto, identity, and the city as a backdrop for clothes.
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Rethinking the Designer's Role in an Era of AI and Generative Tools
How AI image-makers and design tools are reshaping what it means to be a fashion designer.
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Is Quiet Luxury Relevant In A Country So Loud?
Exploring the intersection of minimalism and Indian maximalist culture.
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Queer & Indian Fashion: Challenging Norms and New Narratives
How contemporary designers are rewriting the narrative of gender, silhouette, and tradition in India.
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The Philosophy of Ageless Fashion
A meditation on clothes that outlast trends, age brackets, and arbitrary rules.
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We're All Buying H&M in a World Where We Want to Stand Out
A reflection on fast fashion, sameness, and the paradox of wanting individuality from mass-produced clothes.
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Bhakti & Krishna's Grace: The Transformative Power of Devotion at NMACC
A review of a Mumbai exhibition that uses textiles and image-making to explore devotion, spectacle, and contemporary faith.
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Vaishali Shadangule: A Runway Review
A review of Vaishali Shadangule's approach to Indian textiles, volume, and contemporary couture.
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Indian Textiles: Histories Written in Cloth
Tracing how textile centres such as Panipat carry industrial, cultural, and labour histories through cloth.
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Jeans: The Global Uniform
How denim travelled from workwear to a near-universal language of everyday dress.
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Who Gets to Look? Fashion and the Gaze
A short reflection on image-making, spectatorship, and who fashion asks us to see.
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