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Fashion’s New and Bigger Role in India

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