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    As a designer, Amit Wadhwa is one of the younger men’s wear designers that you should be looking out for. He has managed to strike a perfect and perhaps, the right balance between tradition and modernity. 
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    His minimalist designs have found a fan in the likes of Ayushmann Khurrana, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Kartik Aaryan and many others, who know what proper fashion and style entail.

    We caught up with him and had a free-flowing chat about men’s fashion in India. 
    Edited excerpts:
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    1. As a fairly young member of the Indian Fashion industry, how would you say the industry has grown over the years?

    As I could recall, when I was in college we used to read about international designers and how they had started their brand and what they achieved. I used to wonder why there were no Indian designer brands which made their mark internationally. Now, though, I see Indian designer brands with international acclaim. 
    Three Indian designers have won the international wool mark prize, which is the most prestigious award in our industry. So, we have come a long way.
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    2. Tell us something about AW, your label. 

    AW is an amalgamation of Indian crafts & modern aesthetics. The label ushers towards creating a fusion of fashion culture through embracing the hues of handmade designs within contemporary grace.
    3. What direction do you see the industry taking, as a whole? 
    As an industry, we are becoming aware of the ways we can apply in our work to create conscious clothing which is harmless to our surroundings. 
    Sustainability has become the most important part of our working conditions. 
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    4. Your creations tend to be very fluid and an amalgamation of classic silhouettes with contemporary and modern aesthetics. Where do you draw your inspiration from? 

    I always take inspiration from the past. I believe that somewhere in the modernization we have lost the true essence of craftsmanship. 
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    5. What would you say has been the biggest shift in the industry as a response to the pandemic? 

    We have become responsible in the way we think and do things. 
    We have started adopting new ways to create and present it to the audience. And as we all could witness, there is a sudden shift to the digital world.
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    6. How have you, as a designer and as a label owner, responded to the pandemic? 

    As a designer, I was very calm when it all started. I started exploring other things/activities which I really enjoy apart from designing. 
    But when I got to know how hard it is for the people who work for us to survive in these conditions, as a label owner, we started working twice as hard to make it normal for all of them.
    7. How do you think the industry, as a whole, is dealing with this issue of sustainable and “eco-friendly” fashion, especially now? 
    As a whole, we are not only dealing with it but we are fighting with it as I could notice a lot of young brands creating sustainable garments and being conscious at every step. 
    We are exploring different ways of doing the production which is harmless to our surroundings and the good part is that we are sharing it with each other so that we all could adapt it. 
    © Amit Wadhwa
    8. What are your views on the debate around Maximalism vis-a-vis Minimalism? 

    We are a minimalist brand and we believe that you can create maximum effect with minimal detail.
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    9.  Where do you think men’s fashion in India is heading? 

    Men's fashion in India is now more than just a straight kurta and classic bandhgala. 
    We can now see men being conscious about picking different colours for different occasions, trying different silhouettes and ditching classic suits to wear something unconventional. 
    I believe that in the coming years, we will see a lot of style variations in men's wear.
    Men's fashion in India slipped through the cracks of the mainstream fashion scene and has stayed under the radar for far too long. Take a look at any fashion event - fashion weeks, fashion shows et all, and you'll see how in most of them, menswear seems to be an afterthought. Furthermore, shows focussing exclusively on menswear are a rarity.   
    As a series, 'Ace Indian Designers' is an earnest attempt to celebrate the changing phase of men's fashion in India, and those pioneering geniuses who have come to define our sartorial sensibilities.  

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    A pair of good kolhapuris can last you for centuries. We mean it literally. Kolhapuri chappals have been in fashion ever since they were first spotted in the 13th century. 

    This traditional style of Indian footwear originated in a town called Kolhapur in Maharashtra and took over the entire country eventually. 
    Even now, the town is known for creating the most authentic leather kolhapuris in India.
    This year, apart from the unexpected and the unwelcomed atrocities of the virus, was the year of “atma-nirbharta” and local businesses too. We need to continue the same support for our local handicrafts and artisans now that the festive season is around. 
    Not only this, here are many more reasons for you to be investing in kolhapuri chappals this festive season. 
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    The Bottomline We hope all these brilliant features convince you to embrace the traditional handicraft with open arms. Style, comfort and functionality, what more could you need? Moreover, the prices of these footwear are pretty affordable too, all thanks to the festive season! 
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    In the fourth edition of ‘We Ruin Your Childhood’ series, we are going to talk about arguably the second most iconic cartoon of our time, Scooby Doo (first one being Tom and Jerry, which we’ve already ruined).
     A talking Great Dane roaming around in a fluorescent green-blue van with a bunch of teenage detectives, unmasking spooky characters and getting cursed by the villains. 
    “And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for you meddling kids,” the “ghost” would say at the end of the episode after being arrested and Scooby would do his iconic laughter. Just a fun, wholesome, kids’ cartoon show, right? WRONG!
    Here are four times Scooby Doo made ‘jokes’ only adults could understand:
    1. “I am able to legally… vote!”
    So, Velma’s cousin sister happens to be the hottest character in the history of the show (it is weird that I said that about a cartoon character? Meh) and just like most of the episodes, the attractive new lady hits on Fred in front of his girlfriend, Daphne.
    How does she ‘shoot her shot’? She says this:
    “Yep, I am 18. Able to legally *pause* vote,” as she stares at our boy Frederick.
    2. Fred Reads “Traps Illustrated”
    Urban Dictionary defines a ‘Trap’ as “a crossdresser, usually a fictional character in an anime, who dresses up in the opposite gender's clothing to trick people into thinking that they're the opposite gender” and while there’s nothing wrong with that, the fact that it is in a children’s cartoon show is cheeky.
    When Daphne finds out about Fred’s magazine subscription for “Traps Illustrated”, she confronts him and he says that he buys them for the articles.
    3. Sexual Preference - Sadism © Hanna-Barbera Productions
    In one of the early episodes of the show, Shaggy and Scooby visit Dr. Jekyll’s house to look for evidence and while browsing through his library, a bunch of books can be seen in the shelves in the background, including the one which read Marquis de Sade.

    Now, Marquis de Sade is a Frenchman who invented sadism, or a culture in which one gets sexual pleasure from hurting other people.
    4. “Impure Girls Will Be Judged”
    I get that the bad guys are supposed to be hated by the audience but this one is just sad. In the episode Grim Judgement, Hebediah Grim was a “ghost” set on judging girls who are “impure”. He defined them as those with “painted faces, clothes that rise above the ankles and fall below the neck”.
    Unimpressed, Velma asks “great, what about me?” to which Grim replies “you shall be spared. You are a model of purity - plain, wholesome and untempting” with a bunch of college boys laughing in the background.

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    Stress testing smartphones isn't anything new. We've seen a lot of these tests in the past on a variety of different phones. But this time, ever since Apple said their new iPhones come with a 'Ceramic Shield', a lot of YouTube creators are indulging in extreme stress tests.
    For those of you who don't know, the new iPhone 12 comes with a 'ceramic shield' which is essentially a hardened glass that allegedly offers 4x the drop resistance of previous glass used in the iPhone 11. This has prompted people to perform all kinds of tests.
    From literal hammers being hit on the iPhone 12's display to dropping them at unrealistic heights, we've already seen a ton of them. So just how durable this glass is? Well, that's what the tests are for. And some of them are downright brutal.
    We're not going to put out videos here because there are just way too many of them. You can just do a quick search on YouTube to see them. As it turns out, Apple's ceramic shield glass does actually offer added drop protection. That obviously doesn't mean you should go out of your way and drop your phone for these tests.


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