Should Fashion shows be conducted in India? - Mr. Negative:

Definitely not! They hardly portray the Indian form of dressing. These “Indian Fashion Weeks” which are the window of the Indian culture to the western world, do not represent what one might call the traditional Bharatiya Nari. As one person rightly put it, it removes the ‘kapda’ factor in the ‘roti kapda aur makaan’. We hardly see any kapda. The idea of fashion shows in the west was that the westerners were so affluent that they bought their dresses only from their choice of designers and the designers had to catch a place in the hearts of people. So they conducted such shows to display their talents in designing different clothes. Where as in India, people never buy clothes seeing those models in the ramp. Does anybody watch the dress as much as they do the model? Such shows are not only unnecessary but also insult the rich Indian culture. The worst part is, more than half the designers who design the so-called India wears are not Indians nor have they been studying the various kinds of dresses that we wear. They create designs, which are neither indigenous nor innovative. Why should we ape the west in useless things and destroy our pride and dignity?