REEVES WETHERELL USING 30 FEET OF EMBROIDERED INDIAN SARI CLOTH AND MATCHING SKIRT, PART OF A FEATURE, IN THE 1948 EDITION OF LIFE MAGAZINE, ON WHITE SOCIETY WOMEN WEARING DIFFERENT NATIONAL DRESSES FROM ACROSS THE GLOBE. A CONCEPT THAT WOULD RAISE REASONABLE CONCERNS OF APPROPRIATION AND CULTURAL INSENSITIVITY TODAY.
AUDREY HEPBURN WEARING A NECKLACE INSPIRED BY INDIA FROM VAN CLEEF & ARPELS AND A GOWN BY GALANOS. (PHOTO BY RICHARD AVEDON, HARPER'S BAZAAR, 1961)
THIS SADDLE BAG (EMBROIDERED AT CHANAKYA, MUMBAI) FROM DIOR'S AUTUMN-WINTER 2018 READY-TO-WEAR COLLECTION PROVIDES A REPRESENTATIVE EXAMPLE OF HOW EMBROIDERY PRODUCED IN INDIA IS WOVEN IMMUTABLY-ALTHOUGH OFTEN INVISIBLY-INTO EUROPEAN LUXURY BRAND SUPPLY CHAINS. (GETTY IMAGES)
WOMEN'S CHINTZ JACKET, 1750-THIS FITTED JACKET WAS CUT TO DISPLAY THE SUMPTUOUS CHINTZ IMPORTED FROM THE COROMANDEL COAST TO FULL EFFECT. IN THE NETHERLANDS IN THE 18TH CENTURY, CHINTZ JACKETS WERE POPULAR FOR DAILY USE AND WORN AS PART OF TRADITIONAL COSTUME. (RIJKSMUSEUM, AMSTERDAM)
CHINTZ JACKETS, 1750-1800-MUCH EASIER TO LAUNDER THAN SILK OR WOOL, CHINTZ SOON BECAME POPULAR FOR BABY CLOTHING. (RIJKSMUSEUM, AMSTERDAM)
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AS NEW DELHI'S GALLERY ESPACE MARKS ITS 35TH ANNIVERSARY, AD LOOKS AT GALLERIST RENU MODI'S JOURNEY IN ART.
The New Delhi-based Gallery Espace, founded by Renu Modi in 1989, recently marked its 35th anniversary with two special exhibitions.
ROCHELLE PINTO, EDITOR OF VOGUE INDIA, WRITES ABOUT FORCES OF FASHION, WHICH PUT 39 UNIQUE WORKS UNDER ONE ROOF, PIECING TOGETHER A SHORT HISTORY OF FASHION IN INDIA.
If you want to step into the mind of Cristóbal Balenciaga, the game-changing Spanish couturier who died over 50 years ago, all you have to do is beg, bribe or charm your way into 10 Avenue George V in Paris.
AS INVISIBLE COLLECTION COMES TO INDIA, FOUNDERS ISABELLE DUBERNMALLEVAYS AND LILY FROEHLICHER SHARE THEIR SERENDIPITOUS JOURNEY TO THE COUNTRY.
Isabelle Dubern-Mallevays and Lily Froehlicher first found India at their doorstep when Sonam Kapoor Ahuja borrowed a few pieces from their collection for an AD India cover story in 2021.
ANONYMOUS ARTIST PRINCESS PEA SHOWCASES A COLLECTION OF NINE NEW PRINTS AT THE SOHO HOUSE LOUNGE AT ART MUMBAI.
In Princess Pea's new collection of works, poetry, craft and the divine femininity coalesce with grace.
ARTISTS RITU AND SURYA SINGH'S WONDERLAND OF A HOMESTUDIO IN THE PINK CITY URGES YOU TO LOOK AT THE BEAUTY AND NARRATIVE OF WASTE.
Husband-wife artist duo Ritu and Surya Singh, better known as Wolf, live at \"The Farm\", a unique 20-acre madhouse of wonders in the heart of Jaipur.
KENGO KUMA TALKS TO AD ABOUT HIS DESIGN ADDITIONS AS THE CENTRO DE ARTE MODERNA GULBENKIAN IN LISBON OPENS ITS DOORS AGAIN.
Everyone who has lived in Lisbon likely has a fond memory of the Gulbenkian complex.
FROM HIS REVERENCE FOR GANDHI TO HIS LOVE OF DANCE, A BOOK BY DAG OFFERS NEW WAYS TO KNOW MF HUSAIN.
If there was ever an Indian artist who earned immense fame and yet remained unknowable, it is MF Husain.
WHAT WOULD BAWA DO? WONDERS APARNA RAO, COFOUNDER OF PHANTOM HANDS, AS SHE PRODUCES REISSUES OF GEOFFREY BAWA'S HIGHLY CONTEXTUAL FURNITURE.
In mid-December last year, in the freshly restored Kannangara House designed by Geoffrey Bawa in 1959, an exhibition based on the late Sri Lankan master's furniture designs opened.
BANGLADESHI ARTIST AYESHA SULTANA'S RECENT DUBAI EXHIBITION EXPLORED THE DUAL NATURE OF STRENGTH AND FRAGILITY.
Born in Bangladesh in 1984, the US-based Ayesha Sultana explores notions of form, space and materiality.
WE CATCH UP WITH TARIK CURRIMBHOY AT HIS STUDIO IN NEW YORK, AFTER HIS FIRST SOLO SHOW IN INDIA.
Tarik Currimbhoy's sculptures have a pure, meditative quality. A viewer can stand mesmerized for hours watching the elegant, geometric shapes move back and forth.
