She looks gorgeous. Oh, I hope I'm not being too incendiary. ;)

she looks terrible to me...

Small world, Anahita and Priya and Chintan are all friends of my friend’s, aside, Anahita is married to the guy who directed Being Cyrus.

3 · umber desi said

Small world, Anahita and Priya and Chintan are all friends of my friend’s, aside, Anahita is married to the guy who directed Being Cyrus.

Well, tell your friend to tell them they have a fan in the bunker. ;)

Say what you will...i LOVE Posh.

consider it done, if you ever find yourself in Bombay we can arrange a meeting if you like.

Homi does good work

She looks like a petulant thirteen year old dressed up in her sister's wedding finery.

Well, the costume is amazing. But somehow I find her looking terrible. I loved the way she looked when she was with the band before she became Mrs. Beckham, but now way too skinny and the rest must be plastic :)

Why do fashion magazines make a point of having their models look surly and pissed off?

She looks too thin and delicate. I miss her Spice Girl days.

i agree with MF. Hot face though. i have an elaborate theory on model skinniness that i wont repeat (something to do with gay men ruling the fashion industry and thus constructing and imposing a desexualized version of the female form on the rest of us) b/c JOAT always swoops in to wack me.

i'd like to see palin in a saree

5 · CoffeeFace said

Say what you will...i LOVE Posh.

hella yeah agree!! she was the best one, i miss the 90s at times. she looks great.

"i'd like to see palin in a saree"

eeerrrrrrr! ;)

14 · rudie_c said

eeerrrrrrr! ;)

ok, fine...i'll take her without a saree.

Why do fashion magazines make a point of having their models look surly and pissed off?

(something to do with gay men ruling the fashion industry and thus constructing and imposing a desexualized version of the female form on the rest of us)

16 · bess said

Why do fashion magazines make a point of having their models look surly and pissed off?

rule of thumb in sales is everyone wants what they can't have. from that rules book for women to seduction societies for men, the gist of the advice is to play hard to get. just look at pulli making his play for posh.

Why, oh why, is her sari draped so awfully? All weirdly bunched up at her shoulder and her side...
And does her nettu-chutti (the headgear) on the cover look photoshopped to anyone else?

And does her nettu-chutti (the headgear) on the cover look photoshopped to anyone else?

Why is it always a big deal when a non-indian puts on a bindi or something? It is the equvalent of a white dude blushing with pride at the the site of some Indian actor wearing gym shoes.

20 · ShallowThinker said

Why is it always a big deal when a non-indian puts on a bindi or something? It is the equvalent of a white dude blushing with pride at the the site of some Indian actor wearing gym shoes.

I know, right? Who cares if one of the biggest celebrities in the world is on the cover of Indian Vogue, trussed up like a wedding turkey. This blogger must really be scraping the bottom of the tip barrel, with this post.

;)

I KEED, I KEED. (but I get your point, seriously)

20 · ShallowThinker said

Why is it always a big deal when a non-indian puts on a bindi or something? It is the equvalent of a white dude blushing with pride at the the site of some Indian actor wearing gym shoes.

We love this stuff because it is who we are: being both non-Indian and Indian all at the same time. Most of us are just proud that an internationally known celebrity is glorifying our culture for the rest of the world to see.

Posh would have looked 10 times better if she just smiled. I read somewhere that she never smiles because she doesn't like the way she looks when she smiles.

Yeah, but Posh? She is best known for banging a dude that is prettier then she is.

24 · ShallowThinker said

Yeah, but Posh? She is best known for banging a dude that is prettier then she is.

i have never had sexual relations with that woman

18 · Ocotillo said

Why, oh why, is her sari draped so awfully? All weirdly bunched up at her shoulder and her side...

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I actually think it is a lehnga (the dupatta looks tucked in at he waist)

I think she looks pretty in that picture and I am not a fan of the thinny-thin-thin plastic surgery look that seems to rule these days. Like, Madonna's jumped the plastic surgery shark, Fonzie style, with the chin and cheek implants and all the Hollywood starlets start to look funny after twenty-eight these days, sadly, because of the pre-emptive mucking around with botox and goodness knows what else. Scary! Anyway, back to Posh: I like her hair better this way, all long and brown as opposed to the famous blond 'Pob' she's sported recently.

*Okay, on a totally catty note, Posh is only 34? That's what too much dieting will do for you, I thought she was a Jennifer Anniston-ish thirty-eight-or-nine mutton-dressed-as-lamb, myself.* See, catty and mean, right? Anyway, she looks pretty in this picture, I think.

That's not an off the rack sari.

LOL, it's a wig, according to the comments above? Well, I still like it better than the blondy 'Pob'.

i have never had sexual relations with that woman

Seriously though, I thought that was a pic of a mannequin at a saree shop in Jackson Heights.

Tho' this is the real reason that Palin and Posh drive men batty.

20 · ShallowThinker said

Why is it always a big deal when a non-indian puts on a bindi or something? It is the equvalent of a white dude blushing with pride at the the site of some Indian actor wearing gym shoes.

I asked a white guy and he said, "deodorant"

she looks like a famine stricken woman.

I asked a white guy and he said, "deodorant"

I don't know what this means.

Former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham graces the cover of Vogue India’s November issue, trading in her western outfits for a traditional Indian bridal sari.

But kitty kats, wait till you hear the latest! Beckham's bent is for more modern outfits, it seems like.

6 · umber desi said

consider it done, if you ever find yourself in Bombay we can arrange a meeting if you like.

Meeting with whom....with Bombay Anna ? ;)

She looks really great.
hasn't looked this great in ages.

THANK GOD SHE WASN'T TANNED FOR THIS ONE. just that made it all the better.

If its a wig then it looks awesome. the "pob" makes her look more robotic---but nobody's suggesting she's a robot.

someone please give this girl a gulab jamon or two.

ANNA, I'm fond of you in a bloggy way, but I can't believe you used 'totes'

Chronic lurker de-lurking to laugh out loud @ Manju in #25!
And yes, the woman looks like she hasn't fed in ages.

Ayo, so thin. Not just a gulab jamon but a dozen samosas and a pail full of biryani. She looks like a hard sneeze would shatter her.

Re 8:

She looks like a petulant thirteen year old dressed up in her sister's wedding finery.

Especially in that first picture. I might have found that attractive when I was twelve, but I grew up. And I say that as someone who does have a soft spot for saris.

I don't really follow Vogue India (other than the snippets that Anna posts here like their depiction of the poor with luxury accoutrements), but is it common for them to use non-Indians or non-South Asians as cover models? And if it is, are all their non-South Asian models so er, Fair & Lovely, or do they use black models garbed in Indian outfits as well?

Re 16:

Always ready to cry "gay mafia", eh manju? et tu manju?
Maybe it has to do with walking coat hangers. No bod to get in the way of all the fine cuts and lines of the garment, etc.

But does one really need walking coat hangers for saris? The only linear/angular aspects of the sari are the pleats and they have nothing whatsoever to do with body shape. All other aspects of the sari are essentially draping over soft curves, not edges.

I realize that there are outfits that would look more appealing if modelled by an animatronic coat hanger than by a real woman. I don't think the sari is one of them.

She loves Indian lifestyle culture? Like the peeing on the streets, extreme poverty, communal violence?

Also, I think her sari looks really strange - what happened to the traditional way to wearing it?

Re 43:

I realize that there are outfits that would look more appealing if modelled by an animatronic coat hanger than by a real woman. I don't think the sari is one of them.

I find it interesting that V.I. chose Victoria as a cover model but put her in a disguise. Would she not have been as attractive with her short hair and savage tan?

8 · Lea said

She looks like a petulant thirteen year old dressed up in her sister's wedding finery.

:)

thanks anna =)

I think she looks great - but I agree that she could use a gulab jamun!

47 · Sonia Kaur said

but I agree that she could use a gulab jamun!

Did you mean two gulab jamuns?

anna, i think you're delayed on your pop indian ads/genre. this news was all over perez couple of days ago.

Will it kill her to smile,
Once in a while?

She looks anorexic! Sista needs some meat on her!

49 · badampal said

anna, i think you're delayed on your pop indian ads/genre. this news was all over perez couple of days ago.

I don't read him. Even if I had the time to read, I probably wouldn't read him or D-Listed, which is what the tipster sent in...there are approximately 30 blogs (written by many of you) which I wish I could keep up with, so Pink is the new whatever et al aren't a priority. At all.

I honestly don't mind if someone else blogged it a few days ago. :) We're not a newspaper, we don't break news. Unless one of you tips us off to something and one of us is free to post, that is...

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"original" Sonia- you are most welcome. :)

Ankur-- aw, can't a girl have a little fun? ;)

I was trying to figure out what's odd about the sari on Posh. It's just that she's not wearing it right, there's no gracefulness and it's not draped correctly. It looks like a hippie costume. If she's that into Indian finery, she needs the Indian equivalent of the What Not to Wear ladies to tell how to do it properly.

I thought it was Beckham on the cover....

They could have done this way better. Her nettu-chutti is off kilter, her wig is fake looking, her facial expression is vapid, and the lighting blurs out the sari.

it is fake!