Nip and tuck at India Fashion Week
Fashion shows at one time was all about the latest rage in Paris, the colours, silhouettes and what not. Stony-faced models sashaying down the catwalk, most of the time adorned in outlandish and impossible to wear costumes were the staple of such shows. If something unmentionable was revealed, everyone took it in their stride.
All this changed the day Janet Jackson suffered a wardrobe malfunction. The entire global media zeroed in on the incident as if it was the first landing on the moon or a revelation paralleling "discovery" of a lone woman in Mars. The event was analysed as if no one has ever seen such a fixture on a woman in the entire history.
Ever since, every media person worth his/her salt has been specifically asked by their bosses to keep an eagle eye on such possibilities. Once it happens, they are to click pictures, post videos and report highlighting it/blurring the strategic part/condemn it as deliberate, attention grabbing tactic.
Of course, it is a deliberate act on the part of nature to equip women thus, with the noble intention of nothing less than the propagation of the species. In many societies and cultures, especially in tropical climatic conditions, both men and women used to walk around bare-chested. Even the western world, who lay claim to Hellenic heritage, most of the classical art and sculpture feature them thus or entirely naked, raising no eyebrows.
But then, we have to appear holier than thou and who is the holiest of them all, a newspaper that claims to be the number one English daily in the national capital. It gets a picture on the front page and a report that also states remedial steps that should have been taken like switching off the lights. Its closest rival, however, had a much better picture and restricted the story to the caption, posting it in page 7.
My word of advice would be to leave the poor models and designers alone. There are many other issues that can be explored both in fashion and the world beyond.
All this changed the day Janet Jackson suffered a wardrobe malfunction. The entire global media zeroed in on the incident as if it was the first landing on the moon or a revelation paralleling "discovery" of a lone woman in Mars. The event was analysed as if no one has ever seen such a fixture on a woman in the entire history.
Ever since, every media person worth his/her salt has been specifically asked by their bosses to keep an eagle eye on such possibilities. Once it happens, they are to click pictures, post videos and report highlighting it/blurring the strategic part/condemn it as deliberate, attention grabbing tactic.
Of course, it is a deliberate act on the part of nature to equip women thus, with the noble intention of nothing less than the propagation of the species. In many societies and cultures, especially in tropical climatic conditions, both men and women used to walk around bare-chested. Even the western world, who lay claim to Hellenic heritage, most of the classical art and sculpture feature them thus or entirely naked, raising no eyebrows.
But then, we have to appear holier than thou and who is the holiest of them all, a newspaper that claims to be the number one English daily in the national capital. It gets a picture on the front page and a report that also states remedial steps that should have been taken like switching off the lights. Its closest rival, however, had a much better picture and restricted the story to the caption, posting it in page 7.
My word of advice would be to leave the poor models and designers alone. There are many other issues that can be explored both in fashion and the world beyond.
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