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Returning in Feb to Bergdorf Goodman, Sabyasachi Mukherjee Finds New Home in New York

Designer and artisan visionary Sabyasachi Mukherjee’s much publicized investment deal with Aditya Birla Fashion Retail Limited came to fruition in the first week of February 2021.

As fashion world celebrated the 51 percent controlling investment worth about $55 million, the couturier announced that on February 18, he would launch his second exclusive collaboration with New York-based luxury department store, Bergdorf Goodman.

“We had a very good first session at Bergdorf where we sold close to $2.5 million of jewellery. Realising the power of the brand in America, Bergdorf invited me to do a second round. I would like to see more Indian designers going to the west and selling their clothing to the big Indian diaspora, which can be found everywhere. It’s a testament to the power of the Indian consumer. By selling Indian clothes, Bergdorf is raising the bar on inclusivity,” Mukherjee told Vogue India’s Akanksha Kamath over a late night Zoom call.

Now members of the Indian diaspora, and Sabyasachi fans in North America will be happy to know that the second Bergdorf Goodman collection will also offer clothing, shawls and scarves, and accessories and a new line of bags, in addition to its fine jewelery.

20 Global Activists Are Center Stage on British Vogue's September 2020 'Activism Now' Cover

Manchester United and England footballer Marcus Rashford joins Adwoa Aboah, model and leading mental heath activist, on the cover of British Vogue’s September issue.

Aboah traveled to Marcus’s garden in Manchester for their cover shot, by Misan Harriman, the BLM protest photographer who first picked up a camera three years ago.

Harriman set up his digital media business, What We Seee, in 2016 (subscribe to the newsletter), after a career in finance.

Now we see his images of Aboah and Rashford in a fold-out cover featuring 18 other global activists. and fellow photographers Texas Isaiah, Philip-Daniel Ducasse, Reginald Cunningham and Chrisean Rose.

In early June, Norwegian-born, British writer Afua Hirsch, who interviewed the activists featured in the September issue, emerged from London Underground’s Vauxhall station to the discovery of an entirely new vibe in the streets. Hirsch recollects in British Vogue the moment she joined a protest — holding hands with two small girls — against the broadcast-live murder by Minneapolis police of George Floyd: “ . . . as I stepped up on to that street, I felt an outpouring of raw, ancestral anger and outrage against racism on a scale I’ve never experienced before.”