Caroline Issa and Saloni Lodha are each other’s biggest cheerleaders. And their friendship has survived time and distance.
The two moved to London in the early 2000s, each pursuing individual careers in fashion. Caroline Issa was working at Tank magazine at the time, while Saloni Lodha was working a full-time job. A stroke of serendipity brought them together and, over a decade later, the editor-designer friends have stuck with each other. Today, Lodha heads her wildly successful eponymous label while Issa is counted among fashion’s most influential. While laying down the foundations for their own legacies, however, they never forgot to have fun. In conversation with each other, they reminisce dinners during fashion week to discovering the ‘best dosas in England’. Evidently, the friends share an incredible rapport. It is, most importantly though, the unfaltering, omnipresent support that they lend to each other, despite time differences, that makes their friendship one for the books. Here’s an excerpt from their recent catch-up:
Caroline Issa: I moved to London in 2002 and met you a couple of years into me starting at Tank magazine. And our paths crossed through mutual friends, way before Saloni launched...
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