Lakmé Fashion Week Podcast: Recent Episodes
Lakmé Fashion Week Podcast
Open up to a new world where fashion, lifestyle & sustainability go beyond visual experiences with the Lakmé Fashion Week Podcast. Join our host Nonita Kalra as she puts in all her years of work into curating insightful conversations with industry experts and veterans on topics & issues across the board.
Fashion has always been a strong medium of self-expression, a medium for social reform and in many ways a movement that brings about changes in the fabric of society.
On Episode 6, the Season Finale of the Lakmé Fashion Week Podcast, our host Nonita Kalra gets candid with guests Roshini Kumar, Parmesh Shahani and Keshav Suri as they share personal experiences growing up as a queer individual, about fashion being a tool & even a weapon of self-expression for the queer community and more.
Know our guests:
- Roshini Kumar: An activist, visual artist, photographer and entrepreneur, opens up about her journey from a body-conscious young girl to a woman who is inspiring the youth to be yourself and not be bound by others’ judgements. Over the years, she’s been able to battle societal norms & body-image issues and is now extremely comfortable in her own skin and relies heavily on fashion as a form of self-expression and activism.
- Keshav Suri: The youngest director of the The Lalit Suri Hospitality Group, talks about how he ditched the suit and embraced his fashion, personality & sexuality in the boardroom and how he has been empowering the LGBTQ+ community not only through his chain of hotels but also through The Keshav Suri Foundation and Kitty Su.
- Parmesh Shahani: Author and Vice President at India Culture Lab, Parmesh has long advocated for LGBTQ+ inclusion in corporate India and has guided many of the country’s leading companies on their inclusion journeys. He’s talking about the ‘Queer Gaze’, how the queer aesthetics are important for the fashion industry and his personal experiences working in fashion.
Listen to this episode and the entire Season 1 on Spotify, Google Podcast, JioSaavn and many other platforms including Lakmé Fashion Week's all Social media platforms.
“Business is Personal,” says Alexander Mendeluk, co-founder and new-age healer of The Lightforce Centre.
Episode 5 of the Lakmé Fashion Week Podcast talks about why personal well-being is an integral pillar of building a brand or business. Our host, Nonita Kalra speaks to Shayoon & Alexander Mendeluk on the importance of healing in these difficult times and how the fashion industry can carve a path of growth and prosperity by practising mindfulness.
Bonus: They’re leaving you with a handy meditation to take you through a rough day or anytime you need a break.
Disclaimer: For all mental & physical ailments, please seek professional medical advice & do not self diagnose. All views are personal & informational.
Lakmé Fashion Week Podcast is available on Spotify, JioSaavn, Google Podcasts, and other platforms!
Tune in to Episode 4 of the Lakmé Fashion Week Podcast to catch Nonita Kalra in conversation with Priya Tanna, Editor-in-chief, VOGUE India, alongside Shivan Bhatiya and Narresh Kukreja of the label SHIVAN & NARRESH. They discuss progress, inclusivity and diversity in the Indian fashion and media, what sparked the change, whether it brings with it some genuine progressivism or mere tokenism and much more.
Our guests for this episode:
- Priya Tanna, Editor-in-Chief, Vogue India
- Designers Shivan Bhatiya & Narresh Kukreja, SHIVAN & NARRESH
You can listen to this and other episodes of the Lakmé Fashion Week Podcast on Spotify, JioSaavn, Google podcasts and other platforms.
In this episode, our host Nonita Kalra is in conversation with two of the industry’s most sought after costume designers and stylists - Anaita Shroff Adajania and Arjun Bhasin. This episode is a candid yet insightful chat around the role of stylists across films, fashion, media and real life. They also happen to throw in some personal experiences throughout their journeys so far, so make sure you don’t miss this one!
Our guests for this episode:
- Anaita Shroff Adajania - Stylist, Costume designer & Former Fashion Director at Vogue India, one of the leading voices within India’s fashion community and is credited with helping to steer the magazine’s growth as one of the most fashion forward publications in India.
- Arjun Bhasin - Costume Designer, shuttles effortlessly between Hollywood and Bollywood; crisscrossing sensibilities and ideologies. Creating and designing unique worlds, characters and adventures through costume, Arjun’s recent film and television work includes: A Suitable Boy, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood — his work here earned him a nomination in the Costume Designers Guild awards — Gully Boy, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, The Happytime Murders, HBO's Divorce (Season 1, 2 & 3), 3 Generations, Love is Strange, Begin Again, Life of Pi, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, 5 Flights Up and Dil Dhaddakne Do.
You can listen to our podcast on leading platforms like Spotify, Google, JioSaavn & more!
Influencer Marketing Benchmark Report 2020 says, ‘Influencer marketing is still a highly popular and effective form of marketing. Although the media may at times run reports from naysayers criticizing the industry, those who actively participate can clearly see the effectiveness of it.’ Has this market shift made the mainstream print magazines insignificant or have the magazines taken to social media and influencers to remain relevant to its audiences?
Catch Episode 2 of the Lakmé Fashion Week Podcast where our host Nonita Kalra talks to content creators, both influencers and fashion magazines to discover what's really happening with content and social media advertising!
Our guests on this episode are:
- Malini Agarwal, Founder and Creative Director, MissMalini Entertainment.
- Mehernaaz Dhondy, Editor-in-chief, Grazia India.
- Mitali Sagar, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, House of MISU.
Don’t miss this one as they open up an important discussion on the ever-shifting landscape of content, media, how the current circumstances alter or provide new & exciting opportunities for making authentic, unique content and about the imminent convergence between print media and digital!
A McKinsey report released on July 23, 2020, titled 'Biodiversity: The next frontier in sustainable fashion' leads with some alarming facts: “…while much has been written about the fashion industry’s impact on climate change, less well known and well covered is the industry’s heavy footprint on biodiversity. Broadly defined as the variety of all life forms on earth, biodiversity matters. We rely on it for food and energy, and we depend on its irreplaceable role in sustaining air quality, providing fresh water and soil, and regulating climate. And yet biodiversity is declining at a faster rate than ever before in human history. One million species, between 12 percent and 20 percent of estimated total species, marine and terrestrial alike, are under threat of extinction. The apparel industry is a significant contributor to biodiversity loss. Apparel supply chains are directly linked to soil degradation, conversion of natural ecosystems, and waterway pollution.” The article goes on to explain why fashion is causing such damage but also highlights the good news that the conversation around sustainability post Covid-19, is now one of the most important issues and companies are addressing it aggressively.
This episode will look at the subject through 3 lenses:
- Policy and global initiatives in terms of what countries can do to reduce waste and pollution at the apparel value chain level.
- The role of the individuals and how companies & organisations can make small changes to effect a big change.
- Role of advocacy and how celebrities can initiate these conversations, making it a talking point across the board.
Our guests for this episode:
- Renata Dessallien - UN Resident Coordinator in India
- Dia Mirza - Actor | Producer | UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador & United Nations Secretary-General Advocate for Sustainable Development Goals
- Afroz Shah - Lawyer, UN - Champion of Earth | Indian Of the Year CNN News18 | CNN hero - 2019
It's almost here! The Lakmé Fashion Week Podcast is only days away from its official launch. Open up to a new world where fashion, lifestyle & sustainability go beyond visual experiences. Join our host Nonita Kalra as she puts in all her years of work into curating insightful conversations with industry experts and veterans on topics & issues across the board.