Next week, the spotlight will once more be on couture with the start of the 3rd India Fashion Week in New Delhi
A stands for Abu Jani and partner Sandeep Khosla who should go down in the Hall of Fame not as mere designers but as costumers. Not only do they kit the rich and famous (Amitabh Bachchan and wife Jaya, or muse Dimple Kapadia), meetings are strictly by appointment. PS: You need to do weights to be able to carry off the kilos of gota and brocade that is part of their ensembles, so an Ally McBeal-like figure is a big turn-off.
B is for Beri, Ritu, and also for Bajaj, Ravi, both of whom are conspicuous by their absence from the India Fashion Week. The former believes in selling more to the French, while the latter is quite happy with his desi clientele and is cheerful about giving the hoopla and hype a miss.
A case of taking a stand (