Indian fashion. Coloured perceptions? • 10.22.08
A few days ago, a foreign model walking in the DFW had said that she loved the Indian models.
“They’re so well groomed and we are so laid back, back home,” she had said. The same girl, after walking the ramp alongside the Indian girls on Day I of the DFW, said on condition of anonymity, “I think Indian models feel threatened by us. They’re being nasty to us and the choreographers too.”
It’s a bit of a turnaround, but the feeling was prevalent. Many Indian models had something or the other to complain about too, but they chose to be anonymous. “Why should South African models be promoted by putting our careers at stake?” asked one, accusing the South African choreographer of the DFW, Jan Malan, of favoring the South African girls and recommending them to designers while looking down on the Indian ones, preventing them from getting work.
