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Teen Spirit

A refresher on the teens of Riverdale may seem anachronistic in 2023, but it's a different story when Zoya Akhtar is holding the reins. SADAF SHAIKH gets a frontrow seat to The Archies as the director talks about the film and the cast shares unscripted moments of levity.

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Dinner is served

The way to a man-and woman's-heart may be through their stomach, or, as Malaysian-Tamil stylist and creative consultant Kirthanaa Naidu is increasingly proving, the art of tablescaping.

Home away trom home

In the heart of Chelsea, enveloped by leafy gardens and bathed in sun-dappled shadows, Relais Chateaux’s 1] Cadogan Gardens evokes the old-world charm of Victorian hospitality.

Altered realities

A soothing colour palette and floating figures lend a certain whimsicality to Arpita Singh’s paintings, but their perceived vibrancy is loaded with meaning, finds RADHIKA TYENGAR

Love, naturally

Soon-to-wed Anoop Kaur and Joban Singh leaned into the time-honoured traditions of their Punjabi identity for their engagement ceremony. The result? Vintage vignettes that look like they were pulled straight out of a movie, finds HASINA JEELANI

Objects of Affection

Architect Rooshad Shroff has attended the Salone del Mobile several times over the course of his career, but that didn't curb his enthusiasm for exploring the 11 new items that had been added to Louis Vuitton's annual Objets Nomades collection.

State of Mind

When two good friends with a 25-year age gap travelled to the renowned holistic wellness retreat Ananda in the Himalayas for a health reset, their experiences and outcomes turned out to be positive, restorative and entirely different.

ALL THAT GLITTERS

Meet the players of the high jewellery world who have found a new way to explore their metier by revisiting their archives. Masterpieces from their ateliers reintroduce a joyful exploration of gems while establishing a new language for excellence in jewellery. As we delve into the worlds of these celebrated houses, we discover a host of experiments that play with dramatic proportions, colour and culture in delectable ways

Jack of all trades

Pharrell Williams, the newly appointed creative director at Louis Vuitton, discusses his menswear debut and his direction for the brand.

To the streets

Model and content creator Ikisvon Jamang takes us through a week inside her wardrobe that acts as a window to the changing youth culture of the north-east.

The art of astonishment

Hermès’s artistic director Pierre-Alexis Dumas speaks to DIVYA BALA on his love for India and the importance of inventiveness

INDULGE YOUR TRESSES

The Body Shop's all new Jamaican Black Castor oil hair care range packs a luscious surprise for curly-haired folks.

Street Smart

Two Point Two by Anvita Sharma is a Delhi-based label leaning into streetwear's anti-establishment tenets to tell a modern fashion story, writes AKANKSHA KAMATH

Everything Under The Sun

The Maldives has always lured proponents of luxury travel to its sandy shores, but the JLF Soneva Fushi edition proves that there is more to the archipelago than just opulence.

Never Back Down

Crucial for India's booming construction industry, illegal sand mining has been allowed to go unchecked for decades. But environmentalist Sumaira Abdulali has remained steadfast in her efforts to put a stop to it.

Art to heart

The newly opened South Asia Gallery at the Manchester Museum sees Britain's vast diaspora community reflected in art like never before.

All roads lead home

Actor Maitreyi Ramakrishnan and singersongwriter Priya Ragu reflect on their shared Eelam Tamil heritage and its influence on their respective disciplines as creatives of colour.

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Creative heads

Inside Aman Khanna's meditative workspace in Delhi, the chaos of clay beautifully coexists with the strains of British jazz and Bollywood tunes, finds ARMAN KHAN.

Call it magic

Playing the beautiful, mysterious mage Yennefer on The Witcher may have earned Anya Chalotra the kind of fame most women her age can only dream of, but the one thing the young actor prizes above all else is family.

Below the belt

Artist Devi Seetharam examines patriarchy in public spaces through the men we see and the women we don't.

Altar of amour

The East-meets-West love story of Rameesha Yazdani and Sikandar Vincent-Khan afforded them the freedom to chalk their diverse traditions into a vibrant mosaic of cultures

Worth the wait

From playground swings to a petal-strewn paradise, Zara Peerzada and Sarwan Saleh's childhood love story culminated in a wedding that swapped the transience of trends in favour of the transcendence of tradition

Tale as old as time

Cradled in the boundless imagination of a new generation of Muslims, the traditional nikah ceremony is now infused with a fresh foil of contemporary candour

This Is Not A Comeback

Since her Instagram debut earlier this year, ZEENAT AMAN has charmed cinephiles and netizens alike with her eloquence, wit and honesty, emerging as a sincere voice in a sea of sanitised, monetised celebrity feeds. Naturally, her audience craves more. In a diary-style entry for Vogue India, she pulls back the curtain on her life a little more, penning her own story with the trademark lyricism that everyone has come to know and love.

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The bigger picture

Photographer Tara Laure Claire's staged photographs pay homage to India's kitschy photo studios from a bygone era that provided a backdrop to many family portraits, finds SHRIYA ZAMINDAR

For art's sake

From chairs at Loewe to giant metal globules at Louis Vuitton, offbeat oddities have once again become the fanciful dreams of design houses. With this artier pursuit, wonders SHRIYA ZAMINDAR, has fashion finally rediscovered its escapist beginnings?

Ahead of its time

For over a century, Omega has been creating compelling watches for women. The Her Time retrospective exhibition reflects on timepieces that started the dialogue of gender politics with this practical accessory.

The joy of gems

On a special sourcing trip to India, Lucia Silvestri, the creative director of jewellery at Bulgari, talks technological innovations, 75 years of the Serpenti, and why Jaipur is the seat of all her inspirations.

Future Nostalgia

Nineties beauty makes a triumphant return by way of Bollywood and finds its muse in the decade's most iconic faces.