February 2009 - Posts - Luxury Cult

February 2009 - Posts

Freida Pinto – Global Designs for Globalization’s Child

Posted by Radha Chadha at 
For one brief moment before she stepped on to the red carpet, a little nagging voice at the back of my head asked, would Freida Pinto do a sari for the Oscars? Or would she use her newfound clout to have Valentino or Ellie Saab or her favorite Oscar de la Renta interpret the sari for her Oscar moment? Or would she use the occasion to showcase an Indian...

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Luxury Learnings from Japan's Recession

Posted by Radha Chadha at 
I was invited by the Harvard Business School to speak at their Asia Business Conference 2009 last weekend. I was on the Consumer and Retail panel - along with Ray Hatoyama, the COO of Sanrio which has made Hello Kitty a US$5 billion business globally, and Maria Olives, the AVP of San Miguel Purefoods who flew in from Manila, and Elie Ofek, Marketing...

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Pink Chaddi Campaign – Luxe it Up

Posted by Radha Chadha at 
This blog is dedicated to women doing some frantic last-minute Valentine panty shopping for Mr. Muthalik. (In case you are wondering why, here's the background: The Consortium of Pub-going, Loose and Forward Women – a group formed on Facebook with 34,000 plus members and counting – has launched the Pink Chaddi Campaign , urging women to send Pramod...

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Pubs, malls and “cultural colonization”

Posted by Radha Chadha at 
Every time I see the video of those poor women being bashed up at the pub in Mangalore, I cringe and duck. It plays over and over again on the Indian news channels, and each time I can feel the blows on my body. And then Mr. Muthalik, the politician behind it, gloats and claims victory – his “moral police” are freed from jail and assorted Chief Ministers...

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