Shop Talk
Shop Talk
Shop Talk on RED FM is India’s first fashion podcast series hosted by Shefalee Vasudev, editor of The Voice of Fashion and author of Powder Room: The Untold Story of Indian Fashion. Revealing and Concealing, Undressing Fashion, describes Shop Talk’s incisive and exciting conversations around meaning, memory and material of fashion. Shefalee talks to some of India’s leading designers, crafts pract…Social links:
Ep-13 Manish Malhotra: From Fashioning to Making Films
After 31 successful years of costuming leading Bollywood stars and 16 years as a fashion designer, Manish Malhotra is ready for his directorial debut. The finale of Shop Talk captures how the pandemic inspired Malhotra to sift through his personal and professional thoughts, cementing his plans towa…
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Ep-12 Pabiben Rabari and the Karigar’s Hall of Fame
This episode of Shop Talk features a conversation with the 38 year old Pabiben Rabari, an embroidery artisan and crafts entrepreneur from Bhadroi village of Kutch, Gujarat. From embroidering since she was seven to make ends meet, to sharing the stage with actor Amitabh Bachchan on Kaun Banega Crore…
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Ep-11 Pernia Qureshi: The Story of Digitally Smart Fashion
Does great personal style contribute to the making of a successful fashion enterprise? Should one buy vintage fashion for the love of it or to be more mindful? Shefalee Vasudev joins stylist, fashion entrepreneur and classical dancer Pernia Qureshi to address these questions. Qureshi is known to ha…
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Ep-10 Ekta Rajani: The Fun is in Us, Not in Our Clothes
Acclaimed fashion stylist Ekta Rajani in conversation with Shefalee Vasudev underlines the evolving contours of fashion in India in this edition of Shop Talk. Rajani offers insights on the influence of a stylist, who is pivotal to the fashion industry, while she emphasises on the importance of indi…
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Ep-9 Tarang Arora and Bhavya Ramesh: Why Silver is Having a Golden Moment
Episode 9: Why Silver is Having a Golden Moment This episode of Shop Talk offers insights from two jewellery mavericks—Tarang Arora, creative director, Amrapali Jewels and Bhavya Ramesh, founder of her eponymous brand—on the qualities that make silver a leader in the contemporary jewellery market.…
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Ep-8 Anita and Yash Dongre: Why Fashion is About Empathy Across Generations
Shefalee Vasudev speaks with mother-son duo, Anita and Yash Dongre, who are at the helm of one of India’s most successful fashion businesses, The House of Anita Dongre. Talking points include the 25 years old company’s family to firm transition, its commercial success rooted in empathy and a sharp …
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Ep-7 JJ Valaya: Why Indian Couture Will Always Be In Style
JJ Valaya, one of India’s senior most couturiers is known to celebrate maximalism in his opulent and detailed lehngas and sherwanis, while his journey of over three decades mirrors the growth and evolution of Indian fashion itself. In the latest episode of Shop Talk, Valaya offers insight on his de…
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Ep-6 What Women Want: Lipstick as Therapy
In the sixth episode of Shop Talk, Shefalee Vasudev is joined by celebrity makeup artist and influencer Shraddha Naik and Darpan Sanghvi, co-founder of MyGlamm, one of India’s fastest growing makeup brands. Together they discuss why lipsticks continue to rule even as the consumer remains masked, th…
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Ep-5 Payal Singhal: Pairing Fashion with Life
Mumbai-based designer Payal Singhal’s occasion and bridalwear creations accentuated through prints and bohemian details are functional and fun in equal parts. In the fifth episode of Shop Talk, Singhal talks about the evolution of her more than two decades old eponymous brand, its customer-led inno…
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Ep-4 Shantanu & Nikhil Mehra: The Indian Man’s New Fashion Playground
In this episode of Shop Talk, Shantanu and Nikhil Mehra, founders of the fashion brand Shantanu & Nikhil, chat about reimagining masculinity in Indian fashion by bringing forth ideas of androgyny, military-chic, nationalism and nostalgia. The duo open up about strategies and the inspiration behind …
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