The first Indian designer at Paris Fashion Week, Manish Arora has paved the road to Europe for India’s vibrant fashion scene. In the hectic lead-up to this year’s triumphant show, he chats to Katie Trotter about bridging the gap between East and West. From the National:
The master of psychedelic representation, Arora has carved out a place for himself in the centre of the global fashion market, and currently retails in more than 75 stores worldwide, including Harrods and Dover Street Market in London, Maria Luisa in Paris and Saks Fifth Avenue in Dubai.
When we meet in Delhi, there are just under two weeks until Paris Fashion Week begins – without a doubt the most difficult 14 days in a designer’s calendar, so I am surprised that he has agreed to the interview. I am led through to Arora’s office, which is beautiful and busy in that dizzying Indian way, the walls covered in art and thousands of textile samples spilling from every imaginable space.
I had been expecting Arora to be equally colourful in person. But today he is not. In fact the only snip of colour on his entire get-up comes from a small patch of purple on his trainers. He is a modest-looking man in an unremarkable pair of jeans and black T-shirt – all crinkly in a cool way. The only hint of bling comes from an alarmingly expensive-looking watch that threatens to blind me from certain angles and which hangs from his wrist in a way that appears almost painful. More:
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