This exhibition is not just for fashion enthusiasts. While the fashion aficionados will draw a great deal of information, inspiration, and artistic value from the works on display, I’d like to explore what impact it has on people for whom fashion is not such a big deal. This means people who maybe even rebel against fashion or the kind of fashion that is considered more populist or more trendy. [I’d like to see] how they interact with these archival artworks,” says fashion and lifestyle journalist Varun Rana on curating Vogue India’s Forces of Fashion exhibit that opens on October 14 at Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke.

“These pieces are all stationary, which is opposite to what happens in a fashion show or a regular fashion presentation. These are in a museum setting. The context changes, the light changes, it’s static. You can walk around things or you can go close to them and you can take your time to appreciate the details, the craft, the ideas and the video presentations.”