On what it means to consume art about inequality while living comfortably alongside it. Read the essay.

Fashion is usually written about as spectacle. Runways, trends, seasonal collections, celebrity wardrobes. The industry produces endless commentary on what is in and what is out. But clothing has always been more than aesthetics. A garment carries within it the labour of the people who made it, the materials drawn from the land, the cultural codes that shape how bodies are seen in public, and the political histories that determine who profits from its production. To look clos

Laraib Fatima Warsi explores work, friendship and solitude in urban India, reflecting on Deepanjana Pal’s Lightning in a Shot Glass and conversations with women navigating independence, economic pressure and the politics of desire.