Life is Beautiful: Personal Fashion

 

 

Images by NURBS

Shirt: Urban Outfitters; Harem pants: All Saints; Hat: Kelly Kristy; Shoes: Kenneth Cole

Saturday was the Cricket World Cup finals and I, along with many many other Indians in New York, went to a bar very early in the morning [the match started at 5am EST] to watch the India vs Sri Lanka match. After a lot of nail biting and neck to neck competition I am ecstatic to announce that INDIA WON the freaking WORLD CUP!!! You cannot imagine the excitement every Indian is feeling right now, but just to give you an idea, India has a really good cricket team, almost every Indian is obsessed beyond religion with this game, the World Cup happens every 4 years and India finally won AFTER 28 FREAKING YEARS!!! As soon as the match got over, my Pappa [Dad] called me from India just to share the excitement. My pappa NEVER GETS EXCITED!! Every Indian was on the streets celebrating after the match. I saw pictures of Mumbai streets, London Streets, Jersey City and NYC street pictures. All too good to be true!! Oh what a day in history!!

Ok I will stop with the exclamations, but I can’t write about my clothes right now. It’s too important to keep thinking about our victory!!

Go Blue Men!!!!

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Chor Bazaar, Part 1: A Story

Dress: Anuj Sharma; Ring: Popley; Shoes: Ninewest borrowed from Jasleen of Fashion-Bombay; Ankle Bracelet: Colaba Causeway

     In the quest to find the most authentic Bombay location for a shoot, which was not touristy like Gateway of India, I picked this place: Chor Bazaar. The name literally means a market where stolen stuff is sold. Hehe, I know that’s terrible, but it exists and thrives with people shopping there everyday for things as little as makeup to antique furniture, all stolen or second hand. It can’t get more Bombay than this.

     So for people interested this is my little Chor Bazaar project. I will be doing this post in parts. This is first part and I want to post it as a mini-story [See below]. It’s not really a fashion story, more of just a story.

    The location is a roadside barber’s shop where you can get a hair cut for less than 50 cents. And the guy sitting next to me is as much a part of this story as I am. 

Images by Mariam Mamaji [@ Mariam: I love you hunny]

MINI STORY:

I walk to this filthy roadside barber’s shop. I sit down in the empty chair out of the 2. The other one filled with this man who watches me. I look at him with a soft smile and think to myself, “I wonder what’s his story”. The man, seeing someone dressed the way I was in an area like Chor Bazaar wondered, “What’s her story”. A few moments pass and we both are lost in our own thoughts forgetting about each other’s presence waiting for the barber to show up. Nothing better to do but stare at our reflections in the mirrors hanging by a wire on the wall in front of us. “ I wonder what’s her story,” I think. The man nodding slightly, “Hum”.

Attention Attention: Please to be checking us out in TIMES OF INDIA!! *batting eyelashes*

So major stuff happened during the weekend. On Saturday March 27, Don’t Shoe Me got published on the front page of the iDiva Section of the Times of India!! *Drum roll*. For people who don’t know, Times of India is the New York Times equivalent of India. And thanks to Sonu Bohra of Fashion Bombay we were in it. I had family and friends from all over India calling me and facebook-ing me to congratulate us. And all the while I was only thinking to myself, “Did Dad actually see my pictures in that lace unitard?”…lol…

But I cannot tell you how thrilled S and I were to have been published in TIMES OF INDIA!!!! 

Check out the online version of the article here.

Will post the scan of the actual print article later as I do not have a copy of it yet. Waiting patiently for my sister in Bombay to send one to me. Until then, everyone jump in joy with me!! Don’t stop!! Keep jumping!! I’ve been since the past 2 days .. J