Though I am not doing much in this area but I have this soft corner for fashion like any other girl in this world who secretly wants to do everything that goes with this name. Being an Indian, the Indian Fashion World has always been an area of discussion for me and my girls in my flat where I used to live before marriage. (Memories last forever!) So, we talked good and bad about fashion world, but I do remember that most of the topics were bad - thanks to our ignorance and everybody else including those medium we learned about fashion world in India.
We never knew there is much more to know about fashion, art, our culture that constantly amazes the fashion world and heritage. "Powder Room" managed to cover it all. So, here are 10 reasons why you'd love Powder Room-
10 - Entire book is about real life characters and how fashion seeps into their world - a salesgirl from a high end store, ladies in Punjab covered with brands from head to toe, a tailor from Gujarat who runs a boutique and parlour and her tactics to sell cholis. These are some names I found very interesting.
9 - You'd know why models take pills, how not every model is popular and struggling for a project.
8 - You'd know how and why every designer has his own way of thinking fashion, speaking fashion and producing fashion.
7 - You'd know metros are not the only fashion place. The interiors of North East dictate F.A.S.H.I.O.N.
6 - You'd know how a soon-going-to-be-bride girl throws tantrums to get a low cut choli and low-waist lehenga. Her mommy throws tantrums more than her followed by designer detesting both.
5- You'd know tailors and karigars are the soul of fashion if designers are heart.
4 - You'd know what "Patola" in Gujarat is and if a saree is sold out in lakhs and manufactured only on request.
3 - You'd know a simple girl swaps her place from to-the-point "write-ups" to the diplomacy of fashion and manages to do give a niche to one of the most selling magazines in India - Marie Claire.
2 - You'd know high end brands give goodies, some accept them and some keep them in goody-bucket because they don't want those perfumes, bags with logos and much more.
1 - Last but not the least, you'd know what all makes Fashion which is so glittery outside but takes blood and sweat of everybody related to it.
In short, I thoroughly enjoyed reading Powder Room and this is my first book that I was able to complete after 7-8 years. It was interesting and I was always curious to know what happened next. And I have fallen in love with some characters, while I have pity for some - when you start expressing emotions for characters, you should know that you love the book.
Powder Room
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