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As Bodice turns 10, designer Ruchika Sachdeva shares her approach to luxury and the design process

In a country where high-end fashion is largely associated with occasion wear, Sachdeva offers an alternate approach to luxury: stripping off ornamentation to focus on pain-staking construction and harnessing Indian artisanal techniques to create utilitarian, comfortable garments that can be worn forever.

How India's small, homegrown fashion brands are stepping up to raise essential funds for COVID-19 relief efforts

From amplifying COVID-relief resources for oxygen, ICU beds, plasma, and medicine on Instagram to donating up to 100 percent of their sales to organisations working on the ground to provide aid to those affected, fashion is positioned to help.

How Rahul Mishra applied his doctrines of mindful luxury to the fully sustainable home he's building in Uttarakhand

What really makes Mishra stand out is his Gandhian philosophy: India belongs in its villages. His high-fashion brand is built on the belief system of supporting villages and their ways of living.

Continuing its rebellion against traditional fashion calendar, Saint Laurent presents winter collection as short film

In April 2020, Saint Laurent announced that it would skip Paris fashion week that year. And it has not returned, with its latest winter collection again delivered as an online short film outside of any normal timetable.

Oscars 2021: How the event achieved its 'Inspirational x Aspirational' dress code with reds, metallics, political statements

The ceremony gave a much-needed glimpse into a (hopefully) near future, when physical events and red carpets won’t be as much of an anomaly as they are today, and simply dressing up won’t be considered both inspirational and aspirational.

Fashion designer Alber Elbaz, former director of Lanvin, passes away aged 59 in Paris

Elbaz, an Israeli born in Morocco, restored the lustre to Lanvin during his 14 years at the helm of France's oldest couture brand, giving classic tailoring a more playful edge.

Comfort and sustainability over trends: How lockdown changed the way we buy clothes

While industry trends direct towards an increased demand for loungewear as people found themselves in need of variety in what they had to wear almost every day, some were coming to terms with the changing definition of who they are, and what their wardrobes meant to them.

Europe's fashion industry anticipates major revamps in post-pandemic world: Rethinking 'week' formats, targetting younger clientele

Amid hopes of a return to near-normality by the year’s end, Europe's fashion industry is asking what fashion will look like as it dusts itself and struggles to its well-heeled feet again.

Dispatches from a year of dressing: How working from home changed wardrobes around the world

Have months of self-isolation, lockdown and working from home irrevocably changed what we will put on once we go out again?

Why the sweater vest is a style sublimely attuned to these strange, in-between times

From luxury stalwarts (Hermès and Michael Kors) to cool brands geared toward younger consumers (Wales Bonner and Eckhaus Latta), spring collections were chockablock with this hybrid of waistcoat and traditional knit.

The Rajesh Pratap Singh Interview | 'You have to know where you come from, and see how it is relevant today'

As creative director at Satya Paul, the celebrated designer has given the brand a facelift in less than a year.

As Chanel No 5 completes 100 years, a look at the iconic fragrance's journey so far

An iconic brand has five key elements: it is aspirational, with strong visual identity and persona, it is omnipresent throughout society, and consumers feel a personal connection with it. Chanel No 5 ticks all these boxes.

Activewear in the 21st century: How the clothing trend resists and reinforces popular ideas of femininity

Part of the appeal of activewear is that it is comfortable and functional. But it has also been designed to physically shape the body into a socially desirable hourglass female form.

Paul Andrew steps down as Salvatore Ferragamo creative director, citing 'time for a new challenge'

Andrew joined the Florence-based company as women’s footwear designer in 2016 and was promoted to creative director for all categories in 2019.

Fighting patriarchy, one beautiful bauble at a time: Eina Ahluwalia turns the idea of jewellery as feminine on its head

Ahluwalia's seemingly simple trinkets hold much pain, shed fear, take struggles on head-first, and celebrate womanhood that would make the fiercest feminists proud.

With slow and 'seasonless' clothing in focus, how some pandemic-born labels are changing the face of Indian fashion

Certain pandemic-born brands display a nuanced knowledge of the shift in market demands during the pandemic and an irreverence towards seasonal fashion and conventional modes of production and marketing.

More than ornate baubles, brooches make a comeback with statement pieces, men's red carpet fashion

A number of brooches today are marketed specifically to men, and they’re different from the dainty, ladylike pins of the past.

Prabal Gurung on anti-Asian violence in the US, discrimination, and the duties of success

In the wake of the Atlanta shootings and an upswing in anti-Asian violence, Prabal Gurung talked to The New York Times about his experiences and what his work has to do with it.

Remembering Carla Zampatti: How the Australian designer pioneered wearable yet cosmopolitan clothes for women

Carla Zampatti was primarily a proud, feminist fashion designer, promoting economic independence and agency for women. What she had achieved from the 1960s was remarkable. Australia is poorer without her and her pioneering fashion ethos.

H&M says it is 'dedicated to regaining trust' in China after boycott over controversial decision on cotton sourcing

China had become H&M's third biggest market before the boycott.

Fast fashion's mental health impact: How sustainability, upcycling can help reduce environmental, psychological stress

While the fashion industry aims to target and exploit one end of society by encouraging high-spending behaviour, it demands the exploitation of another end of society with inhumane labour practices.

How the cold-shoulder top became the on point coronavirus vaccine fashion trend

The emerging vaccine-ready top seems to be the cold-shoulder top, thanks to Dolly Parton.

Fashion brands under attack in China after distancing themselves over alleged forced labour in Xinjiang region

Celebrities have cut their ties with H&M and Nike, and state media has called for a boycott of the Swedish clothing chain.

'Our individual traumas are our collective traumas as well': Supermodel Nidhi Sunil on her activism and journey

Nidhi Sunil slipped from the cracks of a social structure that would have stifled her to become a global beauty ambassador and a voice against femicide.

Model, actress Leyna Bloom on being first trans woman of colour to appear in Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue

For Bloom, featuring in the SI Swimsuit issue is a platform for activism and, with it, representation for her less visible, often embattled trans sisterhood.

India gets a joint fashion week after 15 years, as FDCI and LFW team up to meet challenges of COVID-19 era

When the Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI) and Lakmé Fashion Week (LFW) — the organisers of past fashion weeks in Delhi and Mumbai respectively — announced on 1 March that they would be coming together for a joint fashion week in 2021, the collective reaction was “high time!”

As the wedding industry recovers, designers reimagine Indian bridal wear as sustainable with online-offline presence

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