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What Really Is Beauty? And How Does One Perceive It?
Elle India
|October 2018
What really is beauty? And how does one perceive it? As debates rage around the inclusivity of it (or lack thereof), seven voices offer their insights on a term that has been most-polarising this year
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TARUN TAHILIANI
DESIGNER
Well, beauty is always in the eyes of the beholder. And I have always found dusky and tribal Indian beauty alluring and sensuous. It is also real and unfettered. I gag every time I see fairness creams or people (especially in fashion and modelling) trying to brighten their skin. I find indigenous beauty so beautiful. But that does not mean I cannot find somebody who is very fair, beautiful. I think it is important to promote and celebrate our diversity, and the tribal sensuousness of Indian women. And that’s something we, as a label, try to do, too: endeavour to work with women who represent the true soul of India, and not just a whitened colonised view.
FATIMA FARHEEN MIRZA
AUTHOR
This story is from the October 2018 edition of Elle India.
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