Surviving The Glitz Of The Fashion Industry

Meher Castelino’s book Fashion Musings takes the reader through the dizzying depths of the not-so-glamorous fashion industry, advertisements and the world of modelling and Bollywood writes Ayesha Sultana Mohiuddin Gopalan…

- Ayesha Sultana & Mohiuddin Gopalan

“Fashions fade, style is eternal.”

—Yves Saint Laurent

From the layman’s point of view, one must look at the stars, our very galaxy to understand how the fashion industry works. Just like our cosmos is surrounded by zillions of stars, comets, meteors, asteroids and black holes, so is the world of fashion replete with celebrities, some old some new, fashion designers, some talented some plagiarists, supermodels, most of them who have been shelved and the others who still think they can make a mark in our country. Just like our Milky Way which ultimately revolves around a black hole right at its centre, the fashion industry too revolves around the tiny supernova of fashion designers. Meher Castelino’s book Fashion Musings talks about the niche crowd, right from the super-talented designers who will only create collections hoping that people will fit in it to watching the ugly birth of daddy’s little girls and mama’s princesses piggybacking into undeserved stardom.