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fashion designer

Rohit Bal (1961-2024): Fashion’s Showstopper

Kaveree Bamzai

The interpreter of liberalised India blended the richness of Indian textile traditions with Western sensibilities

The Body Couturier

Bhanu Athaiya started as an artist trained at JJ School of Art but ended her career at 91 as a pioneering costume designer for Hindi cinema. It was a life of remarkable work and incredible beauty

Sabyasachi, 45, Fashion Designer

The Bengal Tiger

Bibhu Mohapatra: A Dreamer in Manhattan

Aekta Kapoor in New York

His celebrity muses range from Michelle Obama to Freida Pinto, but Bibhu Mohapatra still evokes the flavour of his Odisha roots in his designs and life

Cuts and Thrust

Aastha Atray Banan

On the design arcs of Manish Malhotra and Sabyasachi Mukherjee, two of India’s top fashion designers

I Am Both

For fashion designer Arjun Saluja, clothes are a way to transcend gender lines

The Six Who Run the Runway

They’re young, talented and don’t care much for convention. The designers you musn’t miss

Clothes Maketh a Nation

Fashion designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee and his idea of Indianness

Mr Make-piece Thackeray

Haima Deshpande

Madhav Agasti, fashion designer to Maharashtra politicians, also dresses Congress and BJP leaders.

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Defender of the faith

Lawrence Bishnoi: A Don’s World