• ‘My designs create joy and I'm grateful for that': Ashish Gupta

    11 days ago - By The Guardian

    His spectacular sequin designs have won Ashish Gupta legions of fans around the world. As he prepares for his first retrospective, he talks to Eva Wiseman about 20 years of fighting gloom with glitter Is the sequin perhaps the most glamorous product of evolutionary biology? Psychologists say humans are drawn to things that sparkle because once our ancestors searched for light reflecting on rivers in their search for water. Now we search for sparkle elsewhere - a diamond ring, a disco ball - and find new meaning in it beyond survival. Like glamour, or value, or - in the case of Ashish...
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