Text by Shirin Mehta. With Photography by and Inputs from Asad Sheikh.
1. The entrance to the exhibition featured multiple red arches.
2. The sindoor-red walls of the opening lobby were covered with a scanned brocade weave.
The recently-concluded India in Fashion: The Impact of Indian Dress and Textiles on the Fashionable Imagination, at Mumbai’s spanking new Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (NMACC), was a powerful reminder of India’s influence on European fashion. Curated by fashion journalist and editor Hamish Bowles and blueprinted by Patrick Kinmonth, a designer of sets for opera, and Mumbai-based architect Rooshad Shroff, the displays sprawled across a spacious hall and spanned centuries of India’s sway over Western aesthetics. “Beginning in the 17th century and continuing to this day,…
