Prose
In the summer backyard, the child poses by a garden chair wearing a long red cotton yukata printed with tiny...
Un Veritable Cachemire
The idea of time as a crumpled handkerchief offers a welcome alternative to the notion of time as a linear...
Betwixt and Between
Catwalk shows hardly ever begin on time. Delay, anticipation and deferment are traditionally part of the routine. Waiting for the...
Colour Codes
Flagging is a way of communicating basic information without needing to speak. Bandanas are soft introductions. They are self-labelling devices,...
A Pair of Sneakers
How many miles of endless asphalt haven’t I covered in these shoes, and in how many cities? This pair of...
The shaping of Indian-ness
How Vogue India reiterates right-wing rhetoric
Vogue India, with its four million online readers and audience of seven million on social media, mostly catering to educated...
Expecting
It’s been a year since my first miscarriage, and the summer sales have returned. I buy a loose kaftan, I...
The Reasonable Shopper
I never knew when or what I was going to lift. The Time to Take was a calm, concrete feeling...
The Deformed Thief, Fashion
‘They’ decide everything. ‘They’ know whether it is to be pink or green this fall, whether it's to be short...
Static Speed
If the fashion show and pose are essentially historic, tied to the modernist movement of the twentieth century, then maybe...
Model Status
Celebrities who are famous for being famous often try to distance themselves from the shallowness of their fame by emphatically...
A Love Letter to My Father
When he was out running errands or working in his study, bent over a book or teaching the students who...