Democratic fashion

Are fashion designers made or born?

The discourse on class mobility is pervasive in contemporary India, and is in itself seen to be one of liberalised...

Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum online collection

Our relationship with clothing is not only aspirational and image led, a myth that spectacular exhibitions cannot help but propagate:...

Portrait by Louise Riley

Hussein Chalayan became known as a ‘conceptual designer’ in the 1990s and it’s been bugging him ever since. Rather than...