Vogue India June 2019

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28 Contributors

32 Ed’s letter

36 Letters

VOGUE LOVES

41 Everything we heart

this month

VOGUE SHOPS

59 More is more—with

our OTT picks, best of

scarf prints, neon and

lace. Jewellery meets

spring fashion, watches

go extra and beauty’s all

about bows, barrettes

and blooms

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94 High definition

Move over, Kondo—

we’re embracing more-is-

more this season. A

photographer, an artist

and a drag queen tell

Shahnaz Siganporia how

and why maximalism can

be spiritual, cathartic and

even empowering

104 Screen guards

Is this new dystopian

Netflix series what

India’s tomorrow looks

like? Deepa Mehta and

Huma Qureshi, two

feminist forces, unite

to plot the future of

storytelling through

one woman’s story. By

Megha Mahindru

106 The bling king

He’s the larger-than-life,

gold-clad sunglass-toting

icon-in-himself, the

superstar of ’80s and ’90s

Bollywood music and the

ultimate original. Bappi

Lahiri breaks his bling-fix

down for Anupama

Chopra

112 Sculpted best

Mrinalini Mukherjee’s

upcoming

retrospective at the

Met is a chronological

presentation of this

master sculptor’s radical

vision of knotted hemp

and twisted bronze.

Curator Shanay

Jhaveri takes you inside

this summer’s most

anticipated exhibit

IV VOGUE

116 What is

maximalism?

American fashion curator

Valerie Steele—‘fashion’s

brainiest woman’, author

of several books and

the museum director at

the Fashion Institute of

Technology for over two

decades—has the answer

118 25 maximalists

you need to know

When it comes to

the more-is-more

approach, these 25 men

and women are the

unapologetic bearers and

wearers of the maximal

movement. We took a

look at the wardrobes of

women around the globe

central to the world of

extravagant style and

the designers who rule

the arena

132 Full impact

Co-curator of

Minimalism/Maximalism,

Melissa Marra-Alvarez,

shares her timeline of the

most ground-breaking,

statement-making

accessories COURTESY RAQIB SHAW ART

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