Posies’ Courage Tomato Soup Shirt

Bowles, editor-in-chief of the design bible ‘The World of Interiors’ and global editor of Vogue, has also co-written a coffee-table book to accompany the show. With frankness, he writes in the introduction, “Beginning in the 17th century and continuing to this day, India’s impact on Western fashion has been a complicated and layered history of admiration, appropriation, exploitation and celebration.” The show is a course correction in that sense.