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Celia Sawyer: The British Designer Who Turns Private Jets Into Palaces That Feel Like Home
In an exclusive conversation with Shweta for Design Diary International, Celia Sawyer speaks about designing for objects in motion, the discipline behind the glamour, and why true luxury has nothing to do with noise. She left school at fifteen in Bournemouth with almost no qualifications and a certainty that she was not going to spend her life being told what she could not do. She worked as a dental nurse. She tried modelling, briefly and by her own admission unsuccessfully.
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FASHION
Prada's Limited Edition Kolhapuri Chappal-Inspired Sandal Collection Brings Indian Artisan Craft to 40 Stores Worldwide
Prada has spent over a decade running its Made In project, identifying master craftspeople across the world and building contemporary collections around their techniques, and the latest chapter lands in India with a limited-edition sandal collection inspired by the Kolhapuri Chappal, manufactured by skilled artisans from the Maharashtra and Karnataka regions, where this GI-tagged craft has been made by hand for generations; it is now available in 40 selected Prada stores glob
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The New Indian Luxury Consumer — Why India's Wealthiest Are Now Choosing Quiet Luxury Over Logos
Something is changing in the wardrobes of India's most discerning dressers. Walk into the right room in Mumbai, Delhi or Bangalore today and you will notice it not by what people are wearing but by what they are not wearing. The monograms are quieter. The logos are smaller. The statements, if they exist at all, are made in the quality of the fabric, the precision of the cut and the knowledge required to recognize what you are looking at. India's luxury fashion consumer is gro
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How to Build a Luxury Wardrobe That Lasts a Lifetime
There is a moment most people who care about clothes eventually arrive at. It usually happens while standing in front of a wardrobe full of things and feeling like there is nothing to wear. The problem is almost never quantity. It is almost always quality — or rather, the absence of a philosophy behind what was bought and why. Building a luxury wardrobe is not about spending more. It is about spending with intention. It is the difference between accumulating and curating. Bet
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BEAUTY
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BOOKS & ART
Colonial Layers at 47A Khotachiwadi: Shadows of Empire
Tucked inside Khotachi Wadi, one of Mumbai's few surviving heritage villages with Portuguese-British roots, 47A is currently showing Shadows of Empire, a two-person exhibition featuring Kolkata-based artist Jit Chowdhury and Mumbai-based photographer and painter Kaushal Parikh. The show opened on March 21st and runs until April 19th. The two artists come from entirely different backgrounds and work in entirely different mediums, which is precisely what makes the pairing inter
Line as Witness: A Solo Exhibition by Yusuf at Black Cube Gallery, New Delhi
Sanya Malik's Black Cube Gallery and Shantanu Sharma present Line as Witness, a solo exhibition by Bhopal-based artist Yusuf, running from 29th March to 11th April 2026 at Sunder Nagar, New Delhi. The show brings together acrylic paintings, mixed media explorations and sculptural forms accumulated over decades of practice, and is open to all by prior appointment between 11am and 6pm. Yusuf has spent his career treating the line not as a formal device but as the fundamental un
Book Review: Juggler by Deepika Khurana
Deepika Khurana’s Juggler , published by Vishwakarma Publications, enters the space of Indian fiction through the contained world of a travelling circus. At its center is Bobo, a dwarf who works as a clown in the Triumph Circus, performing humor for audiences while carrying an unresolved personal history. The circus offers him visibility, but not necessarily freedom from his past. The narrative gradually reveals that Bobo is also Sikander, a name connected to an earlier life
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