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Tuesday, September 2, 2025
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Topic: Fashion

Fashion has gone from physical clothes to digital identity. It’s defined by code & pixels

The real question is no longer what fashion looks like or how it’s made, but who gets to shape it and why it matters.

Mughal gold to Mexican shawls—the journey of Bengal’s forgotten fabrics is now being revived

Portuguese colchas, enslaved artisans in Mexico, and Aurangzeb’s ‘invisible’ muslins reveal a global saga. This Kolkata exhibition is ‘a bridge between a coffee-table book and a lost history'.

Centre’s Indian Knowledge System division set to broaden scope to include fashion, edutainment

Moving away from traditional topics, such as ayurveda and astronomy, the Union Ministry of Education division has called for research proposals in modern fields.

Bollywood has hijacked the fashion ramp. What we are getting are awkward walks

Modelling was once a stepping stone to a film career. Now, the tables have turned. Bollywood actors have hijacked the platform and kicked out the professionals from the ramp.

Does Pakistani actor Mahira Khan wear designer saris better than Indian celebrities?

Pakistanis can’t be prouder. ‘She is Zaalima for a reason,’ a user wrote on Instagram, referring to Mahira’s song with Shah Rukh Khan. Even Indians agree—she is beyond ratings.

The fashion faux pas of 2024. This list definitely has Salman Khan’s pants

Indians are pushing the boundaries of fashion. But for every star setting the red carpet on fire, there's one that's crash landed. Here are ThePrint's top 10 picks for fashion losers.

Co-ord sets are a big blob of nothing. They’re the millennials’ nightie

We are bang in the middle of a fashion revolution no one ever needed.

Lack of pockets in women’s clothing is actually political. Time to bring them back—ASAP

Pockets & prejudice—the freedom to walk without bags was sacrificed at the altar of fashion.

Met Gala to Ambani ‘jamboree’ & Ram Mandir. Bollywood’s stylists are the new A-list

Celebrity stylists such as Esha Amin, Ami Patel, and Bhawna Sharma are more in demand than ever. Not just Alia Bhatt or Kareena Kapoor, they have politicians, tycoons, CEOs as clients.

Goth fashion is as iconic as Goth music. And no, it’s not all ‘black’

Japanese Gothic Lolita style aims to refashion its wearer in the image of a Victorian doll, while the ‘corp goth’ adapts their look for the corporate environment.

On Camera

Road building is a money-making racket in India. And we have a very short memory

We get very angry when rain disrupts our lives and brings our cities to a halt, but by the time the elections come around, we have forgotten how angry we were.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.