Move over, Kondo—we’re embracing more-is-more this season. A photographer, an artist and a drag queen tell Shahnaz Siganporia how and why maximalism can be spiritual, cathartic and even empowering.
DAVID LACHAPELLE
The master of high-gloss, hyper-real, hot-on-the-zeitgeist iconic pop imagery shares his big-picture vision
David LaChapelle, photographer, and arbiter of pop iconography tells me, “Irony is dead. We have no time for irony anymore.” From a Christ-like Tupac Shakur to a picturesque Courtney Love and Britney with a hotdog, between the Studio 54 days and chart-topping music videos for the MTV generation, LaChapelle made martyrs out of pop stars and beautifully employed irony to mock the reverential. But it is 2019, and in the over-cluttered world of Insta-image making, hashtagging, sharing, liking and consuming, the veteran photographer hasn’t fallen into the sinkhole of irrelevance. He’s a Renaissance man, and evolution is part of his DNA, he explains. “I’m sensitive towards what’s going on in the world. There are photographs everywhere, there’s way too much of it—there’s no time for the conceptual, there’s no time to contemplate. Images need to be direct now, so I’m not playing with irony anymore.”
A NEW GAZE
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Breathe In, Breathe Out
A powerful tool to help you master your nervous system or another biohacking buzzword? SIMONE DHONDY explores the inhalations and exhalations of breathwork
Red Pill, Blue Pill
India's nutraceutical industry is booming thanks to advanced technology, distrust of the medical system and rising vanity. With multivitamins becoming purer and more effective, NIDHI GUPTA finds out if supplements have become the new serum
Sign of the times
No longer do you need to have an answer to, \"What is the significance of this?\" when people point to your new tattoo. ARMAN KHAN discovers that everything is on the table when you get inked temporarily
Return to form
Watching the world's most elite athletes deliver the best performances of their careers rekindled SONAKSHI SHARMA's own love for sports
Dimple, All Day
YOU MAY HAVE WATCHED HER ON THE BIG SCREEN FOR OVER FIVE DECADES, BUT DON'T MAKE THE MISTAKE OF ASSUMING THAT YOU KNOW DIMPLE KAPADIA.
MUSIC, TAKE CONTROL
As someone who had always sought safety in numbers, ALIZA FATMA often wondered what her own company would feel like. The answer arrived unexpectedly when she attended her first-ever music festival, one of the largest in the world, all alone
Let it grow
When we think of hardworking farmers toiling in India's scorching heat, we often think of men, the sweat on their brow, the sinews in their arms. JYOTI KUMARI speaks to four women who are championing the invisible female labour that keeps these fields running
YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE
When armless archer Sheetal Devi set her sights on the Paralympic Games this year, she knew she had a tough journey ahead of her. Luckily, her mother was with her every step of the way.
Beauty and the feast
The appeal of Indian weddings has always been in a sprawling spread. For additional bragging rights, Aditi Dugar recommends going beyond designer tablecloths and monogrammed napkins.
Sweet serendipity
From a scavenger hunt-inspired proposal to a Moroccan-themed baraat, Malvika Raj and Armaan Rai's love story prioritised playfulness throughout their blended celebrations.
