Ticket to a nonsensical world? | Inside Toiletpaper’s largest show, ‘Run As Slow As You Can’, in Mumbai

Ticket to a nonsensical world? | Inside Toiletpaper’s largest show, ‘Run As Slow As You Can’, in Mumbai

The fourth floor of the Art House at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre is currently a red room. Not a torture chamber, not quite a villain’s lair, but a more Lynchian vision of an HQ or “control room” of Toiletpaper, this is the final chapter in the sprawling exhibit Run As Slow As You […]

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Walkthrough of NMACC’s ‘India in Fashion’ exhibition

Walkthrough of NMACC’s ‘India in Fashion’ exhibition

Watch | Walkthrough of NMACC’s ‘India in Fashion’ exhibition Special commissions from Rahul Mishra | Photo Credit: MITSUN SONI The ‘India in Fashion’ exhibition at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre showcases over 150 exhibits, all fully or partially made in the sub-continent. From India inspired collections by western brands such as Chanel and Dior, […]

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‘India in Fashion’ at NMACC helps define the country’s varied sources of global influence: Rooshad Shroff

‘India in Fashion’ at NMACC helps define the country’s varied sources of global influence: Rooshad Shroff

Mumbai-based architect and designer Rooshad Shroff, who was the associate designer of India in Fashion discusses lighting challenges, documentation and exhibition design. Edited excerpts: Rooshad Shroff The exhibition has been imagined as curatorial chapters. Was there any segment that was difficult to execute technically, given the interplay of spaces versus curatorial? Actually, it being set […]

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Walkthrough of NMACC’s ‘India in Fashion’ exhibition

NMACC showcase: From beetle wings to chintz, India’s gift to global fashion

A little over 150 years ago, over 30,000 hand cut and mounted samples of Indian textiles were painstakingly organised into an album series to educate and inspire commercial and design industries in India and Britain. Its creator, John Forbes Watson, called them ‘trade museums’. Watson would have been pleased to walk around the ‘India in […]

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