Paris-Calcutta 1923. From the Right Bank to the bylanes of Chowringhee. Smoky rooms, brooding eyes and the sensuous sway of gold tinsel. Society ladies, impoverished artists, soldiers at war and poets in debt. Languid bodies swaying to jazz, rivers of ecstasy running wild, diamonds entangled in enraptured orgies of sequinned gossamer clad nubile limbs. Raise a drunken toast to unapologetic glamour and hedonistic style. The ‘Aakash-tara’ (i.e. starry skies) saree made its first appearance on ...
