Divya Venkataraman
Craft, capital and Chanel: Inside the gilded ambitions of India’s luxury boom
Rising income levels and growing interest in premium fashion has placed the south Asian country on every designer brand’s radar

Common thread: The school training India’s next generation of women weavers
Dior is just one of the luxury brands working with Chanakya School of Craft. This training ground has built a reputation for training women weavers in complex techniques. We see what yarns they’re spinning.

How Completedworks has made a name for itself using materials in unconventional ways
We speak with founder Anna Jewsbury, who sketches her next move into furniture.

Hot property: 10 new buildings shaping their neighbourhoods
These groundbreaking structures are redefining urban spaces from Australia to the Netherlands by harmonising with their environments and energising local communities.

Moving to Mumbai? Colaba is the place where art and architecture uniteÂ
In the first of a new series on urban enclaves – places that have their own powerful dynamism – we head to a former colonial redoubt in Mumbai (or still Bombay to locals).
