IKNOCK FASHION

“What exactly is the true cost of fast fashion brands and keeping up with the quickly revising fashion cycle?” Made in Bangladesh The favorite mom jeans you adorn and get most compliments about; have you ever checked the label to see where it has been made? If you do so, you will realize that your closet is probably full of clothes that are made in Bangladesh! The pandemic has exposed the exploitation that has always been at the center of the fashion culture . The biggest paradox witnessed this year, the fast fashion brands who claim solidarity with black square posts and #blacklivesmatter slogan, are the same brands who have long exploited BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color), simulated inclusivity, and have profited from cultural appropriation. The pandemic has revealed how the people are facing systematic racism in the fashion culture that the “PayUp” movement is fighting these days. The scenario has brought one thing in the upfront- the fashion culture suppo...

Suhana Khan’s Vogue shoot, Ibrahim Ali Khan’s magazine shoot, Alaya Furniturewala’s ramp walk at Lakmé Fashion Week 2020, what do all these have in common? If nepotism was your answer you may well be correct. The shocking demise of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput has led to the initiation of this debate of “Nepotism.” Bollywood in the past few years has taken itself to an extremely different level. The craze for Bollywood movies and celebrities all across the globe is insane and this can be noticed everywhere; be it Priyanka Chopra’s global fan following or Australian cricketer David Warner’s Indian Tik Tok’s. As Indians all of us are highly honored and proud of the global status the Bollywood industry is holding today, no one ever imagined that Bollywood would become globally famous when it started almost 100 years ago. Although Bollywood has set a different bar at a global level, there is one thing that has been crippling it for the past 20 years. This has also become a ...