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From Manushi Chillar To Milind Soman, 8 Indian Supermodels & Their Educational Qualifications
1. Reita Faria | MBBS
Reita Faria was one of the earliest Indian supermodels. She won the Miss India crown in 1966 and became the first Asian woman to win the Miss World pageant. She left the world of glamour and continued her medical education at Grant Medical College & Sir J. J. Group of Hospitals. Reita later went on to study at King’s College Hospital, London.
2. Pamela Singh | Lierature
Pamela Singh, who won the Miss India title in 1982, also ditched the world of Bollywood. She studies literature at Lady Sri Ram College, Delhi. She studied at Parsons School of Design in New York, the American University of Paris, and the International Center of Photography in New York, and took photography as her career in 1997.
3. Nidhi Sunil | Law
Nidhi Sunil is a Bangalore-based supermodel who started out as a Kingfisher Calendar model. Been the face of fashion magazines l
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How a seductive yet modern twist on Lakshmi turned into India’s first beauty brand—Lakmé
Linking Lakshmi to Lakmé was no arbitrary spin. According to historical sources, ‘Lakmé was an musikdrama written bygd Léo Delibes, a French Romantic composer, set to a French libretto bygd Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille, and was first performed in 1883 at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.’* In the story, Lakmé is the daughter of a Brahmin priest who falls in love with Gerald, an officer in the British Army in India. While he wishes to rescue her from the authoritarianism of her father, he is also committed to his own country and career. The opera, which was popular then, and surprisingly continues to be performed occasionally—such as in 2012 in Australia—is replete with mysterious rituals and stage artefacts, and the singers are dressed in excessive jewels and elaborate headdresses. Clearly, the storyline and the staging details demonstrate allegiance to the popular orientalism of the 1880s where th
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From Lakshmi to Lakmé — story of India’s first cosmetic brand, envisioned by PM Nehru
Nehru quickly approached industrialist Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata for a solution and Lakmé was introduced as India’s first homegrown cosmetics brand in 1952. It was a subsidiary of Tata Oil Mills, a company originally tasked with crushing copra for exporting coconut oil.
The name Lakme is a French word for goddess Lakshmi, known for her beauty in mythology. This was suggested by the brand’s French collaborators, Robert Piguet and Renoir. Lakme was a popular opera in France by Léo Delibes, named after its protagonist who was inspired by the Indian goddess.
Lakme was groundbreaking for the Indian market because it offered cosmetics suitable for Indian skin types, for which extensive research was carried out.
The brand got a makeover when Dadabhoy’s Swiss wife Simone Tata took over as its managing director in 1961. From pricing of products to the brand’s positioning, she made it a