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From Paris Haute Couture to Gurgaon’s Ready to Wear | The Fashion Scoop, Ep 37

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Fashion as a business dates to 1857, when an English designer in Paris changed how collections were ordered.

Priyanka begins with easy curiosity. She introduces Hemant and Didier through 40 years in fashion, a Paris beginning, and a long second chapter in India. The room warms up quickly. A bit of Delhi and Noida traffic chat makes it feel less like a formal interview and more like a table conversation before the fashion stories open out. Their India story is personal. The guests talk about a country changed by the internet, mobile phones, websites, and Google, where access has shifted daily life and fashion culture. Younger Indians, in their view, move differently now: more plugged into the world, more at ease with global references. Priyanka asks the modern question without making the whole episode about social media. Before everything could be posted and shared, how did designers get the work seen? The answer starts with the self. For the guest, creation needs a clear view, an artistic idea, and enough conviction to know where the work is going. Fashion, in that telling, is larger than promotion. The chat reaches back to 1857 and the idea that fashion design as a business is only about 150 years old. Before that, taste moved through power. Queens, kings, princesses, Josephine de Beauharnais, and Marie Antoinette come up as people whose clothes could steer public taste for years. The tone stays curious, not lecture-hall serious. Then, wonderfully, it ends with rhubarb, forest strawberries, sweetened dough, roasted almonds, and a soggy cold cake that gets treated with real affection.

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Fashion history, client stories, and how the Indian market opened over time.

Priyanka Kothuria guides Hemant and Didier from Paris to India, then from fashion history to the practical work of dressing clients well. The strongest stretch treats fashion as memory: how designs circulated before social media, what changed in India in the early 2000s, and how…

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