lokhandwala market

crumbling residential buildings from the 1980s whose ground stories are taken up by boutiques and shops selling all colours and textures of material; an entire universe of leather, chiffon, velvet, black roses, floral curlicues, fur lined pockets, rexene, red glinting madness. small time tv actors and other tinsel town residue choosing the strangest clothes on earth modeled by mannequins from another planet fashion. who designs these and makes them? the fashion victims hold handbags daintily as the get off the chauffer driven marutis waiting outside with a cell phone on one ear. there is always a friend to help choose- slightly more dowdily dressed. and all the salespeople are men. ‘ madam bahut accha dikhega’ latest hain’ as we also bought we watched. the best shopping place in the city where you don’t need to buy anything.