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Text by Zaral Shah Shot remotely from around the world, Coach Forever’s Spring 2021 collection features well-known members of the house’s international family in a digital exhibit Showcasing new, vintage and archival Coach designs along with recontextualised key pieces from Fall 2020, the global brand’s Spring 2021 collection within Coach Forever is an ode to the past, present and future. The line makes its debut through a virtual presentation in collaboration with fashion photographer Juergen Teller. A testament to responsibility, renewal and reduction, Coach Forever takes notes from the house’s Creative Director Stuart Vevers’ vision of practical optimism and is a reflection of that which matters the most right now. Embodying the slogan “wear it, love it, pass it on”, this collection illuminates the tales and lives of Coach bags beyond the runway as they are worn, cared for, cherished, personalised and handed down through generations. ....
Text and videos by Zaral Shah The pandemic and accompanying lockdown brought with them a noticeable change in the daily auditory landscape. Curiosity leads to experiments that examine how modifying the experience of sound during movie-watching can transform our perspectives During the initial days of the lockdown, I found myself uncharacteristically oversleeping. It turns out that this was because my usual secondary “alarm” – the sound of the doorbell ringing thanks to the various people who would visit our home like clockwork each morning – had stopped. I slept on without realising that 7 a.m. had come and gone. This lack of house bells and the sudden surge in birdsong brought up the other recent changes in my “surround sound” and how I unconsciously relied on them to add dimension to the happenings of my day. I began to acutely miss hearing the ambient noises of the office: the lightly buzzing compressor of the AC; the microwave beeps; the creak o ....
Verve Magazine (1) We are 25 years old. Started by Anuradha Mahindra in 1995, we turned 18 in December of 2013, in a stellar issue that you can see here, and our 22nd-anniversary issue is a landmark edition that focusses on what’s dominating many a conversation at the moment, right from sustainability to politics and the search for one’s identity in a digital world. (2) We are India’s first and only home-grown women’s luxury lifestyle monthly. Being a glossy, the emphasis on paper, printing, processing and aesthetics is intrinsic, but what people come back to us for is the quality of content. We’ve been told that we stand out as a reader’s magazine. And that’s not an anomaly for a good-looking glossy. ....