Hindustan Times
What’s stopping Indians being in high places for long? I mean, while walking into a Dior Couture show with Paris Fashion Week’s boss Didier Grumbach, he told me that Manish Arora has been appointed Paco Rabanne’s new creative director. And I was very happy. [Read more]
About Vinod Nair
Stepping into fashion was pre-meditated for Vinod Nair. Hailing from a small town in Kerala, where men wore dhotis like mini skirts, most women smelt like drums of coconut oil, he thought the only way to size up pretty girls and still not get hit by their stilettos was by writing about them. So he started that in 1991 when fashion was still small here. Writing, of course, was incidental. In 2004, Vinod Nair was awarded “Best Fashion Journalist” at the first fashion awards in the country, F-Awards. Fashion has gone a long way since then… but he still stands where he started…
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Loading ...Last week, legendary fashion designer Sir Paul Smith was in Delhi. He was on a couple of days’ private visit to the city. [Read more]
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...When I started my career in fashion journalism 20 years ago, few of the fashion designers who existed that time used to have their shows individually once a year, usually during the winter. [Read more]
(2 votes, average: 2.5 out of 5) Loading ...Remember the time when there were more fashion weeks in India than probably fashion designers? The time when from Kashmir to Kanyakumari had fashion weeks in each cities? Well, the energy with which all of them have come up seems to have vanished now. [Read more]
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...The other day I was sitting in the coffee shop of Taj Landsend hotel in Mumbai, having a conversation with the CEO of Harrods London, Michael Ward. Michael, along with a host of others from Europe and the US had come to attend the Mint Luxury Conference organised by us two weeks ago. [Read more]
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