Fashion
Text by Avani Thakkar
If you are Vaishali Shadangule, the past few months have been nothing short of a whirlwind – fighting a severe spell of COVID-19, being selected as the first Indian female designer to showcase at the ongoing Haute Couture Week in Paris, whipping out a worthy collection in the midst of the second wave, pulling all-nighters with just half your team in town, and let’s not even get started on the logistics of travelling to the main event during a pandemic….
The designer entered the Indian fashion scene in 2001 with her eponymous label and a penchant for saris and bindis (her love for both is as exuberant as ever). “That was the time when no one was excited about handlooms or spoke about handloom fabrics in the way that they do now; in fact, many thought khadi wasn’t glamorous,” she reveals, instantly recollecting those days,…