Beauty
Text by Mallika Chandra. Photographed by Anish Sarai. Styled by Akanksha Pandey. Hair and make-up by Clover Wootton at Anima Creative Management. Model: Diya Patel at Feat.Artists
“Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.” – Meryl Streep
Left: Top, by Kommal Sood; skirt, from Notebook
Right: Dress, from Bodice
In her tribute to Jane Fonda in 2014, Meryl Streep thanked the older actor on behalf of other younger ones because the kindness shown to her on the sets of her first feature film (Julia, 1977), which Fonda headlined, is something she learned to pass down through the course of her own career. In a world where women are constantly pitted against each other, internalised misogyny is very much a reality, and we still hear…