{"id":921,"date":"2001-06-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-06-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/06\/19\/2001-06-19-indian-clothes-wow-american-audience\/"},"modified":"2001-06-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-06-19T12:00:00","slug":"2001-06-19-indian-clothes-wow-american-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/06\/19\/2001-06-19-indian-clothes-wow-american-audience\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Clothes Wow American Audience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.evesindia.com\/fashion&#038;beauty\/feature\/indian-clothes.html\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK, June 9, 2001: Some time next year, when you walk into Saks on Fifth Avenue, don&#8217;t be surprised to see clothes by Indian designers Rohit &#8220;Gudda&#8221; Bal, Rina Dhaka, Vivek Narang, Tarun Tahiliani and Raghavendra Rathore on the shelves. Their exhibition held at the home of Meera and Vikram Gandhi in Manhattan had the Saks&#8217; representatives walk in to take a look at their creations. Jacqueline Lundquist, wife of former U.S. ambassador to India Richard Celeste, played a key role in the event. &#8220;I was walking down the street one day in a sari, and I was stopped four times in 12 blocks by people who wanted to know what I was wearing and where they could get it. That was when I realized that there was a market potential for Indian clothes and these guys were all my friends so I decided to start off with a small display,&#8221; she said. The designers were more than thrilled at the prospect.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE NEW YORK, June 9, 2001: Some time next year, when you walk into Saks on Fifth Avenue,,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}