Author: Anushka Kundu

THE COACHELLA TAKEOVER ROHIT BAL X INDO WAREHOUSE Featured
Designer Collaborations, Designer Collection, Designer Focused, Events, Fashion, Studio

THE COACHELLA TAKEOVER: ROHIT BAL X INDO WAREHOUSE

It is not every day that a renowned Indian designer label is seen under the Coachella stage lights. However, record label and experiential series Indo Warehouse marked a significant milestone in fashion and music history as they made their highly anticipated debut at the arts and music festival on April 11, donning creations by the Read More

Homegrown Brands That Are Changing Athleisure Wear in India Featured
Fashion, Lifestyle, Listicle

Homegrown Brands That Are Changing Athleisure Wear in India

Five years into the post-pandemic world, athleisure has not only remained in the limelight but has consistently risen in popularity with more people embracing a laidback wardrobe. As the need to stay fit persists, so does the inclination towards fashioning active wear outside the gym. With this shift in the style landscape in India, these Read More

Fendi’s 100-Year Legacy Featured
Designers, Fashion, International Designers

A Century of Italian Legacy: Fendi Is All Set For The Next 100 Chapters

One of the world’s most coveted fur fashion brands, Fendi, recently celebrated its hundredth-year anniversary celebration, marking a major milestone in the history of the luxury clothing industry. Founded by Adele and Edoardo Fendi in the Eternal City of Rome back in 1925, Fendi started out as a leather and fur atelier with a single Read More

Torani Featured-Image
Designer Collection, Designer Focused, Fashion, Jan / Feb / Mar / 2025, Magazine

Crafting Stories On Textiles ft. Torani

Capturing sagas of couture through unrecounted stories, Karan Torani is here to change how the world visualises luxury wear — away from the stage lights.  If like the rest of the world today, you too, spend most of your time scrolling through Instagram, it is nearly impossible not to stumble upon a bewitching, almost enchanting Read More

Amit Aggarwal
Designer Focused, Fashion, Jan / Feb / Mar / 2025, Magazine

Science, Structure & Sustainability Ft. Amit Aggarwal

Very few designers succeed in delivering dynamic creations that not just pleases the eye but also feeds the curiosity of the audience. Over two decades of crafting couture, Amit Aggarwal basks in the glory of establishing an empire based on innovation and nuanced artisanship. In the Indian fashionscape where age-old crafts and techniques have always Read More

Bridal, Fashion, Jan / Feb / Mar / 2025, Magazine, wedding, Wedding Looks, Wedding Trends

Corsets and Couture

Modern weddings are nothing short of fairytales – a gala of luxurious textiles and striking silhouettes that are a confluence of traditions and global influences. Amongst many new-age bridal trends, the corset has risen to fame with its myriad variations to fit into the Indian context. Originally invented as body shapers concealed under gowns that Read More

Lab Grown Diamonds
Fashion, Jewellery, Magazine, Oct / Nov / Dec 2024

A New Era of Diamonds

This year, when supermodel Anok Yai walked the Met Gala Red Carpet adorning a necklace from Swarovski’s Galaxy Collection with 1,050 Swarovski Created Diamonds, it turned heads and served justice to the brand’s groundbreaking techniques. Similarly, in 2023, the iconic jewellery brand Pandora launched their lab-grown diamond collection in the Danish market, with Pamela Anderson Read More

Wedding Wardrobe
Bridal, Fashion, Magazine, Oct / Nov / Dec 2024, wedding, Women's Fashion

Redefining The Wedding Wardrobe

Over the years, the narrative of Indian weddings has altered manifolds, and bridal wear is an imperative aspect of that change. As weddings become intimate yet increasingly luxurious, brides are opting for styles that are more personal than conventional. Thus, silhouettes that were once synonymous with a traditional bride have been swapped with new-age patterns Read More

Kunal Rawal
Designer Focused, Designers, Fashion, Magazine, Oct / Nov / Dec 2024

A Force of Innovation ft. Kunal Rawal

Structured silhouettes, layered textures and riveting details are all things that define the name Kunal Rawal – an eponymous label synonymous with the rise of revolutionary gender-neutral clothing.  The designer started young with his first clothing label in 2006, Dstress, after graduating from London School of Fashion and since then, there has been no stopping him. Read More

The culinary history of festive foods
Jul / Aug / Sept 2024, Lifestyle, Magazine

The Culinary History of Festive Foods in India

In a country where recipes and palettes change every hundred kilometres, it is no surprise that Indian cuisine is dispersed into innumerable regional recipes, each having a distinct story. Vastly popular for its myriad flavours, Indian food has a trail that is immensely diverse, rich and historic. Being a land subjected to many invaders and Read More

Fashion, Fashion Accessories, Jul / Aug / Sept 2024, Lifestyle, Listicle, Magazine

Fashion’s Most Ethereal ‘It’ Bags

Invest in the ultimate luxe life with fashion’s perennial favourite ‘It’ bags that have stood the test of time, and how! It is rather fascinating and enthralling how a commodity invented for purely utilitarian purposes went on to become luxury fashion’s most valued asset. Today, luxury bags from esteemed global brands yield a whopping resale Read More

Sunita Shekhawat
Designer Focused, Fashion, Jewellery, Jewellery Edit, Jul / Aug / Sept 2024, Magazine

Sunita Shekhawat’s Haveli of Heritage

Delving into India’s multifaceted history of jewellery making witha one-of-a-kind museum in the Pink City. Decades after India’s liberation from British rule, the search for the scattered pieces lost under colonialism still seems inexhaustible. Today, a grand indo-Islamic structure – the Museum of Meenakari Heritage (MoMH) – in the heart of Jaipur celebrates the legacy Read More

Ritika Mirchandani
Designer Focused, Designer Interviews, Interview, Jul / Aug / Sept 2024, Magazine

Reinventing Indian Fashion ft. Ritika Mirchandani

Using intricate embroideries on new-age silhouettes, Ritika Mirchandani has created a niche for her aesthetic in today’s occasion wear market, winning the hearts of women who want to stick to tradition while breaking norms. In a candid conversation, we discovered where it all started for the young designer.  FL: Twelve years after your eponymous label Read More