Shefalee Vasudev, Author at Shefalee Vasudev

What the Charkha Spins, Besides the Yarn

by Shefalee Vasudev|October 19, 2026October 19, 2026|Opinion, The Voice of Fashion

On learning to spin, the limits of scholarship, and the unexplored possibilities of an embodied...

Kalaa by Kankatala: The Sari in Motion, Emotion and at Rest

by Shefalee Vasudev|October 19, 2026October 19, 2026|Features, The Voice of Fashion

Kalaa the store tells the story of the sari even as the sari tells the...

40 Years of Chanakya: The Power of Showing Up as a Craft Community

by Shefalee Vasudev|October 19, 2026October 19, 2026|Opinion, The Voice of Fashion

What stood out at Chanakya’s 40th anniversary, besides the extraordinary work on display, were the...

John Galliano and the Met: When Genius Is Not Enough

by Shefalee Vasudev|October 19, 2026October 19, 2026|Opinion, The Voice of Fashion

The question was never whether John Galliano was a brilliant designer. It was whether brilliance,...

Sabyasachi: The Unlikely Minimalist at Heart

by Shefalee Vasudev|October 19, 2026October 19, 2026|Opinion, The Voice of Fashion

What looks like maximalism by Sabyasachi Mukherjee is, in fact, an exercise in imaginative control...

Crossing the (Sari) Border

by Shefalee Vasudev|October 19, 2026October 19, 2026|Opinion, The Voice of Fashion

A border looks like a boundary. In Indian textiles, it can be a beginning—a place...

How Student Protests Changed Fandom in India

by Shefalee Vasudev|October 19, 2026October 19, 2026|Opinion, The Voice of Fashion

As India’s student protests over examination paper leaks grew into a national movement, another largely...

The Material World of The Odyssey

by Shefalee Vasudev|October 19, 2026October 19, 2026|Opinion, The Voice of Fashion

Penelope’s Loom—Bronze, Wood and Waiting Beyond journeys, heroes and battles lies another epic: woven through...

Vaishali S’s Swayam: When Craft Eclipses Couture

by Shefalee Vasudev|October 19, 2026October 19, 2026|Opinion, The Voice of Fashion

At Swayam, shown alongside Paris Haute Couture Week at the residence of the Indian Ambassador,...

Devis, Apsaras and the Myth of Originality

by Shefalee Vasudev|October 19, 2026October 19, 2026|Opinion, The Voice of Fashion

In fashion’s algorithmic age, originality is no longer just a creative act. It is a...

Rahul Mishra’s Devi: Grey Matter

by Shefalee Vasudev|October 19, 2026October 19, 2026|Opinion, The Voice of Fashion

A couture showcase that worships two deities—the designer’s imagination and the Indian artisan’s hand. And...

Paris, Luxury and India’s Next Conversation

by Shefalee Vasudev|October 19, 2026October 19, 2026|Opinion, The Voice of Fashion

At the IFCCI–Comité Colbert conference in Paris, the luxury conversation moved beyond handbags and heritage...

40 Years of Chanakya: Karishma Swali’s ‘Arthashastra’

by Shefalee Vasudev|October 16, 2026October 16, 2026|Features, The Voice of Fashion

As Chanakya, the atelier, marks 40 years with three ongoing exhibitions in Mumbai, it is...

A Forest, A City, A Bottle

by Shefalee Vasudev|October 16, 2026October 16, 2026|Interviews, The Voice of Fashion

A conversation with urban anthropologist Rahul Srivastava about Dharavi, the mahua flower, terroir and the...

Editing India for Paris

by Shefalee Vasudev|October 16, 2026October 16, 2026|Interviews, The Voice of Fashion

A conversation with Marielou Phillips and Matthieu Foss of Deeya Paris on curating contemporary Indian...

25 Years of Longform: The Powers and Pressures of PR

by Shefalee Vasudev|October 16, 2026October 16, 2026|Interviews, The Voice of Fashion

As Longform marks 25 years, this conversation with Neeta Raheja and Pareina Thapar looks at...

The House of Rohit Bal: Fraze Tasnim and Gudda’s Shadow

by Shefalee Vasudev|October 16, 2026October 16, 2026|Interviews, The Voice of Fashion

Fraze Tasnim, who presented Dastkar at India Couture Week in Delhi on Friday, is leading...

The Handloom Style List

by Shefalee Vasudev|October 16, 2026October 16, 2026|Editor's Letters, The Voice of Fashion

Our pick of distinctive dressers who make the case for skill, style and substance. Celebrating...

Queer people need jobs and fair treatment, not opportunistic hashtags

by Shefalee Vasudev|June 30, 2026June 30, 2026|Interviews, The Voice of Fashion

Fashion has long embraced queer aesthetics. Parmesh Shahani asks whether it is finally ready to...

Beyond GI: The Next Chapter for Ladakh Crafts

by Shefalee Vasudev|June 30, 2026June 30, 2026|Opinion, The Voice of Fashion

The recognition of Ladakh’s prized artisanal products is a valuable milestone. The harder task lies...

Divyanshu Joshi’s Death and the Cost of Fashion’s Informality

by Shefalee Vasudev|June 30, 2026June 30, 2026|Opinion, The Voice of Fashion

The bell tolls again for the Indian fashion industry. Divyanshu Joshi, who died last week...

The Devil Downsized

by Shefalee Vasudev|June 30, 2026June 30, 2026|Opinion, The Voice of Fashion

A defanged sequel where Miranda Priestly presides over fashion’s institutional decline—editors shrink, advertisers loom, and...

The Rise of Indian Luxury

by Shefalee Vasudev|May 28, 2026May 28, 2026|Editor's Letters, The Voice of Fashion

The first edition of Atlas of Affluence in 2022 examined a market in recovery. It...

Vegan Fashion’s Selective Morality

by Shefalee Vasudev|May 28, 2026May 28, 2026|Features, The Voice of Fashion

From fur bans to exotic skins, feathers to plant-based materials, fashion’s cruelty-free turn is full...

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