Fashion’s New and Bigger Role in India

[lsanderson]

NONTRADITIONAL Manish Arora’s show featured an animal theme with models’ hair trained into horn shapes and their faces painted to resemble jungle cats.
By GUY TREBAY
Published: March 25, 2009
New Delhi

“IT’S just something I threw together,” Himanshu Verma, an arts organizer, said at one of the mobbed events marking Wills India Fashion Week here. “It’s called a taxi sari,” he added, referring to the aggressively garish outfit of polka-dotted organza and polyester brocade he wore. That pronoun is no typo, by the way: Mr. Verma is a man. More