Week in Review: Sept 15 - Sept 1909.20.08

Luv to Bhang
Bhangra lovers to celebrate music and culture in Toronto.

Ritu Kumar at India Couture Week
Ritu Kumar’s design house on the runway.

Desi, Irish, Korean, Japanese - they’re all represented
Djs and Beats at the Vancouver Celtic fest.

Desis for Obama
Unite together and show your support for Obama with the new T-shirt!

Vogue’s Fashion Photos Spark Debate in India
Vogue in India for fashion shoot gets in trouble.

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Vogue’s Fashion Photos Spark Debate in India09.15.08

Vogue India’s August issue presented a 16-page vision of supple handbags, bejeweled clutches and status-symbol umbrellas, modeled not by runway stars or the wealthiest fraction of Indian society who can actually afford these accessories, but by average Indian people.

Perhaps not surprisingly, not everyone in India was amused.

The editorial spread was “not just tacky but downright distasteful” said Kanika Gahlaut, a columnist for the daily newspaper Mail Today that is based here, who denounced it as an “example of vulgarity.”

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