Vivek Vadoliya Celebrates ‘Mumbai Magnetic’ for HTSI Magazine May 18, 2023 AOC Fashion

Models Bharath Murugaiyan, Neeraj Saini and Ankit Karki take HTSI Magazine readers to Mumbai in a fashion story ‘Mumbai Magnetic’, written by Jessica Beresford.

Stylist Nikhil Mansata has curated a eclectic menswear offering from Acne Studios, Anamika Khanna [Indian], Bandhgala [Indian], Bianca Saunder, Casablanca, Fendi, Giorgio Armani, Karu Research [Indian], Kolor, LOEWE, Louis Vuitton, Naushad Ali [Indian], Our Legacy, Paul Smith, Péro [Indian], Prada, Suspel, Tod’s, Wooyoungmi, and Zegna in the May 18th issue. Hair and makeup by Maniasha.

London-based photographer Vivek Vadoliya [IG] describes these images for HTSI as “One of the most special stories I’ve shot to date, celebrating Mumbai a city thats so dear to my heart. It’s a place that’s getting a lot of attention for its creativity and energy, and I’m so glad it’s being celebrated!”

AOC can’t help thinking of Ashley Radjarame Covers Vogue India 15th Anniversary October 2022 by Nick Sethi, where Radjarame, who lives in France, did a photo shoot in Puducherry, a part of India created by The French East India Company. Yes, France was also a colonizer in India. AOC wrote:

Clearly, the entirety of the Vogue India 15th anniversary, October 2022 cover story became an emotional story for model Ashley Radjarame and her family. We think of fashion as frivolity — although it’s much too steeped in identity to treat it so casually.
Ashley and her mother both burst into tears at the end of Nick Sethi’s fashion shoot. “In most shoots, you only care about what you look like and what the outfit looks like, but during this shoot it was also about being photographed in Puducherry —where I’m from, where my grandfather is from and where my family was born. It made me so proud,” she says of her emotional state post-shoot.

Photographer Vivek Vadoliya’s pride in India launched this post, but Ashley Radjarame’s Vogue India’s comments close it.

Speaking as a member of the fashion community who is an American of Scandinavian heritage, I wrote several months ago,that those of us who are determined to bring the nations of Africa into the fashion spotlight have the same obligations to India.

You can count on Anne of Carversville to be constantly mindful of that promise and working hard to live up to our words.