A golden run to a silver mile

This is a very special year for me. Like Sabyasachi and the India Fashion Week, I am also celebrating 25 years in the business. For two and a half decades, week after week, uninterrupted (except of course when I was on annual leave), I have been writing a fashion column.

- NAMRATA ZAKARIA

What makes it even more unusual is that the columns have appeared in mainstream news publications like The Indian Express, Mumbai Mirror, The Times of India and now here, at THE WEEK. It is so easy to write on fashion for fashion publications, print or digital. Try talking trends to hard-nosed newspaper editors, clueless about anything other than politics or municipal issues, and you'll know. But I have been lucky for my golden run. I have been fortunate to be able to interview Valentino, Donna Karan and Salman Rushdie, and feature them on the front page of mainstream newspapers. I have been grateful to announce the arrival of Uniqlo, Starbucks and even Karan Johar's babies on the revered page one. And yes, the column discussed, decoded and dissected why we wear what we wear, why what we wear tells others things about us. Fashion concerns all of us. We all wear clothes. And our clothes tell our stories.