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Wednesday, July 23, 2025
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Topic: Fashion

Wear Che Guevara, Johnny Walker and Gandhi on your T-shirts, but it says nothing about you

In ‘Consumerist Encounters’, Sreedeep Bhattacharya explores how our relationships & representations of commodities like T-shirts have evolved in urban India.

Cutting costs to trimming their losses: India’s garment industry is hanging by a thread

Between selling inventory at half price & using personal savings to pay rent, apparel store owners continue to struggle post-lockdown.

Why Modi gets away with Maybach specs, Rs 10 lakh suit but Rahul with Burberry jacket can’t

It’s not ‘what’ Narendra Modi wears, it’s ‘why’ he chooses to dress the way he does that seems more subliminally political in its intent.

In the name of Hinduism, people are boycotting tea, food, fashion, detergent and all logic

Despite their hard-lining stance, the pious packs of online trolls do not discriminate when it comes to kinds of brands they boycott and urge others to.

Business as usual at the Oscars, with only a little politics

The Oscars red carpet this year remained focused on fashion, and continued its apolitical stance with small nods to social issues.

Karl Lagerfeld, German designer who ruled Chanel for decades, dies

Recognizable for his high-collared shirts, white ponytail, dark sunglasses and black fingerless gloves, Karl Lagerfeld dressed the famous and glamorous right from Princess Diana to Cate Blanchett.

Italian luxury brand could face legal trouble after Maneka Gandhi’s letter for probe

Days after fashion designers Stefano and Niccolo Ricci said they got govt nod to import crocodile skin to India, Gandhi writes seeking probe into the matter.

Indian designs are chic and people here are very elegant, says Stefano Ricci

On this week’s Walk The Talk, Shekhar Gupta converses with Italian fashion designers.

Shalwar qameez and Kaptaan chappals: How Imran Khan is wearing his politics on his sleeves

The man who once wooed the world in blue jeans and sunglasses, has now religiously taken to the simple white ‘shalwar-qameez’

A black model closed Chanel’s autumn fashion show, but don’t celebrate yet

A black model is still considered an adventurous, and not a normal, choice by most top fashion houses. 

On Camera

Air India crash report shows an institutional reform of AAIB and aviation ministry is in order

The civil aviation ministry could have recognised the enormity of the Air India crash and prepared the AAIB and its investigating team for its sensitivities.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.