A little water in the wine... Rasheeda Bhagat
My problem... both for my paintings and jewellery... is that less is more. And that is true even for relationships.
Warning: include(../press/When a supplement of the French newspaper, Le Monde, carried a picture of Bollywood beauty Aishwarya Rai, "a lot of French people asked me she is such a beautiful lady, but why does she need so much of jewellery; five bracelets... something on the arm, a necklace, ear-rings, rings, etc. And I said she is an Indian and India is a mosaic, it is multicultural with a lot of languages, cultures, etc. So it is not enough for her to wear the white of Christian Dior. India is not like that, and you have to respect that."
<p>There is a trace of impatience in the voice of Olaf Van Cleef, an advisor to Cartier on High Jewellery, as he passionately talks about how westerners try to apply western codes or values on things Indian, and it doesn't work.</p>
<p>So what does he think of Aishwarya?</p>
<p>"She is beautiful, and not crazy; she has feet on the ground," is his crisp response.</p>
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<p>There is a trace of impatience in the voice of Olaf Van Cleef, an advisor to Cartier on High Jewellery, as he passionately talks about how westerners try to apply western codes or values on things Indian, and it doesn't work.</p>
<p>So what does he think of Aishwarya?</p>
<p>"She is beautiful, and not crazy; she has feet on the ground," is his crisp response.&l in /home/olafvancleef/olafvancleef.org/archives/index.php on line 162
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