In Beauty and the Beast, Disney's film set in France, Britain's Emma Watson, starring as Belle, wears a beautiful, delicately hand embroidered bodice created by India's artisans. "They used a technique called 'Aari work' which is a very fine chain stitch traditional to the Kutch area of Gujarat," said assistant...
The Sari and Western Women
I was surprised the First Lady Michelle Obama did not try a sari in India. After all her husband used to hang with the Indian crowd when he was known as Barry and cooked Dal with his roommate Vinai Thummalapally (now the Ambassador to Belize). But so many other Western...