Fashion Designer Tries Porn In-a... Patched

For decades, Western media representation of India was often reductive—limited to poverty porn or exoticized depictions of snake charmers and mystics. However, the advent of social media democratized storytelling. Suddenly, the narrative was in the hands of the locals. The youth of India, armed with high-quality smartphone cameras and high-speed internet, began to deconstruct the monolith.

Julian Vasseur may be a cautionary tale for fashion students, or he may be a prophet. In a world where the boundary between curation and exploitation is thinner than a single-ply silk charmeuse, his argument is difficult to refute: We are all selling something. The only difference is what we choose to take off. Fashion Designer Tries Porn In-A...