OK, so I'm late to write about the recent resort collections - probably everything was already said about that and nothing new would I add to the issue. As in the last couple of weeks I'm sort of forced to gain knowledge about Bollywood, I decided to take a closer look at Vogue India, which was launched in October 2007. Here's the first cover, as we all remember, with Gemma Ward, two Indian models: Monikangana Dutta and Lakshmi Menon and three Bollywood superstars: Bipasha Basu, Priyanka Chopra and Preity Zinta.
Both the issue and the cover became controversial. The issue - because it was thought that it is not "vogue" enough and too "Indian" (which sounds kind of weird knowing that it's an Indian magazine, but I get the point). The cover - because it looks too much like the premier Vogue China cover and besides it's just... bad. Judging from what girls at Fashionspot say and from some scans of eds you can find at Flickr, Vogue India is getting better and better with every issue (but not with its the covers - unfortunately). And it stays so Indian - contrary to for example Vogue Nippon that is not as Japanese as we could expect.
- November: Deepika Padukone, model and Bollywood actress
- December: random models
- January: (in the red dress) Gauri Khan, Bollywood movie producer and director
- February: Katrina Kaif, Bollywood actress
- March: Kareena Kapoor, Bollywood actress
- April: Lakshmi Menon, model
- May: Bipasha Basu, Bollywood actress
And here are some snaps from random eds:
Source: FashionSpot
