MRINALINI CHANDRAShe is a jewellery designer who is best known for creating customised kaleeras for Bollywood celebrities like Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Sonam
K Ahuja. Chandra studied Fashion at the Creative Academy, Milan and NIFT, New Delhi and went on to work at Tanishq and Mont Blanc before launching her eponymous label. In this issue, she
writes on the symbolic value of bespoke kaleeras in ‘A Forever Keepsake’. Currently on your playlist?‘You Know I’m No Good’ by Amy Winehouse.POOJA DHINGRAShe is a Mumbai-based pastry chef, who founded the Le15 chain of pâtisseries and cafés in 2010. Featured on the Forbes ‘30 Under
30’ lists both in India and Asia, Dhingra is a graduate of hospitality from César Ritz Colleges, Switzerland and trained at Le Cordon Bleu, Paris, for a Pâtisserie Diploma.
She is an INK fellow, has published three books, and hosts a popular podcast called #NoSugarCoat. Here, she lists the top wedding cake trends for 2020 in ‘A Piece
of Cake’. A piece of advice to your younger self?To not be so afraid. ■NAMRATA SONIShe is one of India’s most reputable celebrity makeup artists. Soni studied at the Delamar Academy of Makeup in London, and has since worked with several
publications and Bollywood actors. She was awarded an IIFA award for her work in WKHÀOPthis issue, Soni gives our covergirl a natural look in ‘My Favourite Girl’. Do you get Om Shanti Om. In
more bridechillas worked with more chilled-out brides— 60 percent of my clients have been easy-going.or bridezillas?I’m quite lucky to have there for a decade. Fond of She is a freelance writer since 2013, when she quit her full-time job at the Today GroupKALYANI PRASHER after working India
travelling, reading, eating, and watching movies, Prasher writes about these and all the other little things that make life worth living. Here, she takes us through a list of the best safari getaways in ‘Be Still,
My Wild Heart’. Vacation spot you keep going back to?Kanha National Park, Madhya Pradesh.contributors
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