DSM in India BUSINESS OF FASHION Report 2013 Book: Press

Images by Alison Wynn, Hrishikesh Vimadalal, Ben Taylor, Jackie Russo 

Super excited to have been published in Vol.1 of India BUSINESS OF FASHION Report 2013 Images Yearbook! Cannot thank my fantastic photographers enough for all their hard work, support, dedication and creativity. It's a lot of work and I know that. I love you guys so much for being as excited as me about all the stupid things I want to do with your talents. I hope somehow in some little way working with DSM has been worth it. Thank you again, SOO SOOOO MUCH!

 Love all you readers too! You know nothing else counts more right? 

Thanks Asmita Aggarwal for the fab interview write up and IMAGES group for including me. 

And with that i end my Oscar speech. :)

Circle Of Life: Personal Fashion

Images by Ben Taylor 

Romper: Retarded Velvet [Borrowed] 

When you have such a baby like onesie for an outfit you would think fun! Well my twisted mind thought grandfather! I can't and won't even try to explain. Just what happens in my brains most of the times so deal with it. lol. 

But yeah, it just seemed like a cool "Circle of Life" idea. Pairing this onesie with an old man mask completing the cycle from a child to an old man and the in between stage of being an "over grown child". I think that defines the way I would like to look at life, all the time. Threw the eyes of a child. Simply. Not over-think, not over complicate, just do what my heart desires and just be. Cuteness, I say. 

PS: My Closet sale was fantastic. I made more than a decent amount and I am thankful beyond count to all who came to it! Sincerely. 

I love you guys more than you will ever know.

Utterly Butterly Delicious: Personal Fashion

Images by Ben Taylor 

Harem Pants and Top: Borrowed from Retarded Velvet [all opinions here are my own and this is not a paid gig]; Jacket: Suno; Shoes: Irregular Choices 

Can someone please explain the genius behind these prints to the non-Indian world? I am going to try but if you think you can do it better, you should in the comments section. 

PART ONE: The Pants 

These harem pants have a print of a very beloved and extremely famous caricature for a butter brand in India called Amul. This chubby "Amul Girl/ Baby" has been the mascot for the brand since 1967 and Amul ads are the best billboards on this planet! They are witty, always a spoof on current affairs hence relevant and they always incorporate this Amul Baby in it. These ads are so cool they've won a Guinness world record for the longest running ad campaign when first launched in 1967. I could have just given you the link to the wiki page on this info but nooooooooooooooo, I wanted to type it all while on a terrible work deadline just for you. For reals. So how ingenues is this idea by retarded velvet to put this Amul baby character on a pair of Harem plants?? 

PART TWO: The Top 

The top has another crazy Indian cultural and mythological comic strip called "Amar Chitra Katha" on it. So you can find out more about this here.

PART THREE: The Jacket

You have seen me use this jacket a couple of times before on the blog. It is insane in it's prints and colors too and I think unintentionally it does have an Indian feel to it [with the back print that you can see here] which totally compliments all the other modern [almost hipster] cut separates in this outfit with an Indian traditional pop culture print.

Now I have to get back to work! Hope all you guys had a great weekend! I surely did! 

xo

Show Me the Mulla: Personal Fashion

Images by Ben Taylor 

Jumpsuit: Retarded Velvet; Shoes: Irregular Choices; Jacket: Zara

"Gucci Gucci, Louis Louis, Fendi Fendi, Prada 

Them basic bitches wear that shit, so I don't even bother! "

During and after every fashion week this is how I feel. I am going to stop at that note and refrain from saying anything more cause if I start I may not be able to stop. lol. 

Ben and I got kicked out of almost all the shops/ restaurants we tried to shoot at in China town today. If you look very closely in the second picture, there is a wall in the restaurant behind me that is fully covered in dollar bills. That was going to be the location for our shoot today but the stupid dudes working at the restaurant would not budge. It would have been beyond perfect for a shoot with this One Rupee [Indian currency] jumpsuit of mine from Retarded Velvet. No? Oh Well. We still got some serious shit just on the street. It's my Indian-Harakuju-Pimp-on-crack look y'all. It's right on the money! ;)

Jesus Christ: Personal Fashion

Images by Ben Taylor 

Shoes: Underground UK; Skirt: From India; Tee: Vintage 

I am declaring my tee vintage cause I bought it almost 12 years ago in India. I love how there are things in my closet I still wear after so many years. My aim is to build a wardrobe full of only pieces like that. 

Also every time I wear this tee, I always have some overly religious person on the street/ bus/ subway start talking to me about Jesus and how they love him and that this is the best tee ever. Biggest mistake was to wear it on a bus ride in PA going from Pittsburgh to some small town outside of Pittsburgh and everybody on the bus was smiling at me, talking to be about how great Jesus is. This was the first time I think a brown person got so much respect from every single person in small town PA [lol...I kid! It's a joke!]. I felt really guilty about having worn it when I was not a Christian nor religious cause they were all looking at me with pride and admiration for being a young person so pious to actually wear Jesus in declaration of my love for the church. So I just indulged them by nodding a lot and occasionally saying "Amen!" in approval of whatever they were saying to me. I am not really proud of myself for doing that but what choice did I have? I couldn't tell them I was an Atheist born to a Hindu family who just thought the tee was cool. Even though I was definitely not trying to be ironic when I bought this tee a million years ago [cause I didn't even know what that meant back then] I somehow thought it was cool. I still do. I just make sure I wear it in NYC cause I am likely to be less mistaken to be pious here than other places. Now if only I can get back to the size I was 12 years ago and fit a little better in this tee, life would be perfect. 

I will help anyone fashionably if they help me get into a tinny whiny bit of shape! [I say that while sipping on a beer at 1.45 am on a monday morning...lol..but this is why i think my life is so good! Cause I can do this guilt free :)]

The Hole: Personal Fashion

Images from Ben Taylor

Shirt: Gift from Roomate; Harem Pants: Rachel Roy; Skull Necklace: OS Accessories; Shoes: Office UK

It's been a crazy couple of weeks and honestly I say that all the time now so I guess it's just been a crazy life overall. Went to Coachella last weekend and cannot tell you how much fun I had just being away from work, blogging and New York for 6 days. The music was insane and for me the highlight was to see Florence and the Machine perform up close and live! I love that woman! You can check out some of my Coachella pictures on the DSM Facebook or twitter pages.

Finally got an opportunity to do a personal shoot and on a hunt for a cool location Ben and I were walking around the Bowery and stumbled upon The Hole art gallery which had an entire indoor French garden as an installation sponsored by Playboy.com with a pond and tiny fishes and willows and grass and the green bridge all inspired by Monet's estate. Artist E.V. Day was awarded the Munn Artists Residency to live on Monet's famous estate in Giverny and be inspired by the gardens that inspired Monet. She invited artist Kembra Pfahler to go along with her and create art. Kembra is an iconic performance artist who's art attire is basically her naked body painted in red, a huge wig and some stripper boots. E.V's work is best known for her refracted photography. The collaboration is insane and if you are in NY you must check it out at The Hole! Just to give you a glimpse here is a picture from the exhibition which was hung around the indoor garden that the gallery kindly allowed us to use as our shoot location.

Image from http://theholenyc.com/