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 towards fashion film production, direction for the big screen and streamlining his business. Malhotra, who changed how India dresses with his iconic saris and covetable bridalwear, shares the matrix behind creating his signature looks and why a close connect with the buyer matters.

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 towards fashion film production, direction for the big screen and streamlining his business. Malhotra, who changed how India dresses with his iconic saris and covetable bridalwear, shares the matrix behind creating his signature looks and why a close connect with the buyer matters.

Shop Talk on #RedFMPodcasts 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 practitioners, retailers, creative heads and stylists to uncover fashion’s pulsating significance in social and personal lives; how it influences the zeitgeist and narrates an era and its people. Including but beyond trends and clothes, Shop Talks is an intersectional space, it is about glamour and style, about people and innovation, sustainability initiatives, India’s artisanal legacies. A contemporary, candid, curious set of conversations, it drapes the idea of India with fashion as prism.

Shop Talk on #RedFMPodcasts is India&rsquo;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 &nbsp;
Revealing and Concealing, Undressing Fashion, describes Shop Talk&rsquo;s incisive and exciting conversations around meaning, memory and material of fashion. Shefalee talks to some of India&rsquo;s leading designers, crafts practitioners, retailers, creative heads and stylists to uncover fashion&rsquo;s pulsating significance in social and personal lives; how it influences the zeitgeist and narrates an era and its people. Including but beyond trends and clothes, Shop Talks is an intersectional space, it is about glamour and style, about people and innovation, sustainability initiatives, India&rsquo;s artisanal legacies. A contemporary, candid, curious set of conversations, it drapes the idea of India with fashion as prism.

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 practitioners, retailers, creative heads and stylists to uncover fashion’s pulsating significance in social and personal lives; how it influences the zeitgeist and narrates an era and its people. Including but beyond trends and clothes, Shop Talk is an intersectional space, it is about glamour and style, about people and innovation, sustainability initiatives, India’s artisanal legacies. A contemporary, candid, curious set of conversations, it drapes the idea of India with fashion as prism.

Shop Talk on RED FM is India&rsquo;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&rsquo;s incisive and exciting conversations around meaning, memory and material of fashion. Shefalee talks to some of India&rsquo;s leading designers, crafts practitioners, retailers, creative heads and stylists to uncover fashion&rsquo;s pulsating significance in social and personal lives; how it influences the zeitgeist and narrates an era and its people. Including but beyond trends and clothes, Shop Talk is an intersectional space, it is about glamour and style, about people and innovation, sustainability initiatives, India&rsquo;s artisanal legacies. A contemporary, candid, curious set of conversations, it drapes the idea of India with fashion as prism.

Ep-13  Manish Malhotra: From Fashioning to Making Films

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 Crorepati, and now becoming the face of an award-winning crafts gift box—Pabiben has come a long way. In this episode, she offers her take on collective growth, on product innovation and the importance of recognition in the life of an artisan. Kaarigar Clinic’s Nilesh Priyadarshi and AIACA’s Anjali Bhatnagar join in to unravel the case study of a unique crafts curation ‘The Local Gift Box’, also the winner of AIACA’s The Most Creative Marketing Strategy Award this year.    

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 Crorepati, and now becoming the face of an award-winning crafts gift box&mdash;Pabiben has come a long way. In this episode, she offers her take on collective growth, on product innovation and the importance of recognition in the life of an artisan. Kaarigar Clinic&rsquo;s Nilesh Priyadarshi and AIACA&rsquo;s Anjali Bhatnagar join in to unravel the case study of a unique crafts curation &lsquo;The Local Gift Box&rsquo;, also the winner of AIACA&rsquo;s The Most Creative Marketing Strategy Award this year.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Ep-12 Pabiben Rabari and the Karigar’s Hall of Fame

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 have uniquely mixed her personal style and entrepreneurial choices, having created and curated e-commerce platforms Pernia’s Pop-up Store and recently, the pre-loved fashion marketplace Saritoria. The episode delves into the finer details of both selling and buying fashion in the digital era – using technology for consumer mapping and acing the tools of presentation to spark emotions, besides dressing for self-expression regardless of age. Saachi Bahl, founder of sustainability focussed retail platform Saahra adds to the conversation as she talks about rising consumer awareness and curating and sustaining a conscious closet.

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 have uniquely mixed her personal style and entrepreneurial choices, having created and curated e-commerce platforms Pernia&rsquo;s Pop-up Store and recently, the pre-loved fashion marketplace Saritoria. The episode delves into the finer details of both selling and buying fashion in the digital era &ndash; using technology for consumer mapping and acing the tools of presentation to spark emotions, besides dressing for self-expression regardless of age. Saachi Bahl, founder of sustainability focussed retail platform Saahra adds to the conversation as she talks about rising consumer awareness and curating and sustaining a conscious closet.

Ep-11 Pernia Qureshi: The Story of Digitally Smart Fashion

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 individuality and confidence as cornerstones of being stylish today, from dressing to evoke power to prioritising comfort. The former fashion director at Harper’s Bazaar India and Grazia, Rajani also offers a fresh perspective on styling old clothes in newer ways—reclaiming the ‘fun’ inherent in fashion. 

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 individuality and confidence as cornerstones of being stylish today, from dressing to evoke power to prioritising comfort. The former fashion director at Harper&rsquo;s Bazaar India and Grazia, Rajani also offers a fresh perspective on styling old clothes in newer ways&mdash;reclaiming the &lsquo;fun&rsquo; inherent in fashion.

Ep-13 Manish Malhotra: From Fashioning to Making Films

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