Candy Pratts Price offers animated commentary direct from Lakme fashion week in Mumbai.

Candy Pratts Price offers animated commentary direct from Lakme fashion week in Mumbai. Check back daily for her latest updates.

For New York’s social elite, the sky may be falling along with their fortunes, but in Mumbai one need look no further than the well-groomed women filling the front row of Lakme fashion week for evidence that the Indian economic outlook is anything but grim. From Sangita Kathiwada, a member of the Kathiwada royal family, [...]

Fashion and film are two industries that like to cross-pollinate, but Bollywood proves exceptionally fertile ground for cinematic style collaborations. Take Narendra Kumar’s collection for Sunsilk, India’s biggest haircare brand, at LFW. Sunsilk is an investor in director Madhur Bhandarkar’s upcoming garment industry exposé, Fashion, which will explore the Indian style world’s seamy underbelly (think [...]

Most people think of shopping in Mumbai as an opportunity to stock up on pashminas and ethnic jewelry, but thanks to the efforts of some forward-looking entrepreneurs, the city now boasts a trio of hip style emporiums. The first stop is Bombay Electric, run by Brit-Indian It girl Priya Kishore. She stocks an eclectic selection [...]

Candy Pratts Price offers animated commentary direct from Lakme fashion week in Mumbai. Check back daily for her latest updates.

As far as trends go, leggings have shown that they have, for lack of a better word, legs. At Lakme fashion week, under way in Mumbai, they’ve turned up in the form of a churidhar pant. The churidhar is a tight-fitting, ruched trouser, worn with a salwar kameez (a traditional Indian tunic). A number of [...]

Candy Pratts Price offers animated commentary direct from Lakme fashion week in Mumbai. Check back daily for her latest updates.