![]() “Dior uses a lot of gray so we had the gray in there, as well as a lot of crystals. In the fifth section, titled “India’s Allure Meets The Paris Couture: The Influence of India in the Work of Chanel, Christian Dior and Yves Saint Laurent,” three rooms show the inspiration for each of these fashion houses, each separated also by color and its architecture. With the title “Gathered in a Mughal Garden,” it is about the impression that floral chintz made on the West, and the popularity of the fabric in the 18th century the ban on importing it from India, leading to imitations, and a greater demand for the original. The section about floral chintz is disarming. ![]() “It helps you have a connection, whether it’s historical or contemporary, and also creates different points of view,” he adds. When you go into the ideas of each of the spaces they automatically lend themselves in a unique way to create moments which are sometimes disconnected from one another, but yet work cohesively together,” says Rooshad Shroff, who is an architect and visualizer of the exhibition along with Patrick Kinmonth, having been drawn into the project two-and-a-half years ago. “What happens in this case is that you’re also looking at multiple brands and a very large historical period, so the beauty of this is it allows you to create different moments in time. Located at the Jio Centre, at the Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai, the costume exhibition, titled “ India in Fashion: The Impact of Indian Dress and Textiles on the Fashionable Imagination” also pays tribute to textiles that inspired the world, including chintz and muslin, each of which has a separate section, and the sari, which has the largest section with 26 displays, including a sari inspiration from Chanel in 1953, and sari-inspired dresses by Balenciaga, Givenchy, Paul Poiret, Schiaparelli, Madame Grès, Zandra Rhodes, and Jean Paul Gaultier over the years.Ĭurated by British fashion writer and editor Hamish Bowles, and inspired by his book of the same name, the exhibition follows the chapters of the book - rather than a chronology of time or location.Įntering the first section, titled “Fascination and Invention,” the first piece is from Alexander McQueen - a dress and leggings and the famed Armadillo boots from the late British designer’s spring 2010 Plato’s Atlantis collection, also remembered from the Lady Gaga video “Bad Romance.” The opening brought in celebrities from all over the world, including Gigi Hadid, Zendaya, Tom Holland, Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas, Deepika Padukone, and others. ![]() This is the inaugural exhibition at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (NMACC), a multidisciplinary art space with galleries as well as a theater. The costumes - brought in from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Royal Ontario Museum, and various private collections - are displayed in 140 different exhibits, split into 10 zones. Beyoncé’s Hairstyles Throughout the Years
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