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Dear Ralph Lauren, my DU college aesthetic is not your costume

What is truly confounding about Ralph Lauren’s bastardisation of the Bandhani into a printed tie-dye is the price tag—Rs 44,800.

I cannot understand why luxury fashion houses have collectively decided to recreate the DU girl aesthetic. Did I miss the Vogue article on “memsahib couture”?

Ralph Lauren’s daylight theft of the traditional Bandhani print is a perfect example of caucasity. My college culture is not your costume, Ralph! And if it is, do so tastefully like Imtiaz Ali. There is nothing worse than a lack of aesthetic for a DU girl.

Ask any college girl in Delhi and the one thing they will never stand for is the audacity of it all.

Sure, fashion colonisation is not new. From the Scandi scarf, cough, dupatta to the latest Ibiza fashion aka beaded embroidery, rebranding Indian aesthetics to fit Western palates is a common malpractice. But it seems that as Mr Trump returned to power so did the caucasity to disregard the sentiments of........

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