{"id":8111,"date":"2011-03-25T03:03:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T03:03:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-03-25T03:03:05","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T03:03:05","slug":"Emanuel-Ungaro-s-Indian-Dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=8111","title":{"rendered":"Emanuel Ungaro\u2019s Indian Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Emanuel Ungaro said that had he come to India in his twenties, the chances are he would never have left.  And the world of fashion may have missed out on one of the great couturiers of his generation.  \u201cI had to resist the temptation of this country,\u201d said the French designer, who is now 78, in a recent phone interview.  Instead, Mr. Ungaro lived most of his life in Paris, where he set up his eponymous label in the mid-1960s. Over time he made tailleurs, ruffled dresses and floral patterns a signature of his haute couture collections, which at the peak of their success attracted glamorous clients like Jackie Kennedy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Emanuel Ungaro: Spring\/Summer 2011 collection, Paris<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_QK7m4Htqpk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He\u2019ll be coming to India later this week, where he plans to attend the Mint Luxury Conference in Mumbai. (The Wall Street Journal and Mint, a business daily, have a content-sharing partnership.)  Mr. Ungaro said the idea of India, which he describes in terms of sensations, has inspired him throughout. He speaks of \u201cthe colors, gestures and perfumes\u201d of the country as having had \u201can enormous influence\u201d on his work.  What first sparked his fascination with this side of the world, he recalled, were the patterned dresses worn by Gypsy girls in Aix-en-Provence, the French town where Mr. Ungaro, who was born to Italian parents, was raised. <\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThey wore multiple printed fabrics,\u201d said Mr. Ungaro in fluent Italian with a faint French accent. \u201cIt all felt very Oriental.\u201d  He then started reading about Gandhi and Nehru (both of whom he says he admires) and much later in his life, around two decades ago, traveled to the subcontinent for the first time. Mr. Ungaro said he found the drapes and folds that come with the stitchless garments popular in India (saris and dhotis come to mind) particularly inspiring.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Emanuel Ungaro &#8211; PAFW Spring\/Summer 2011\/2012 Full Fashion Show<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xn1932HFUVs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Emanuel Ungaro &#8211; Fall Winter 2011\/2012 Preview<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R8pjF_BLkv4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>I love Emanuel Ungaro!  In a word, stunning!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/indiarealtime\/2011\/03\/23\/emanuel-ungaros-indian-dream\/?mod=djemIndiaUpdate_t\" title=\"SOURCE\">SOURCE<\/a><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emanuel Ungaro said that had he come to India in his twenties, the chances are he would never have left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":72448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x90.jpg","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"Joshua","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/62ee23f8f40307578d1f284ecd823d77f32da8ea35541e7dbdafeb5da1a4e877?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"2","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"Emanuel Ungaro said that had he come to India in his twenties, the chances are he would never have left.","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["News"],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":184,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":2,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"medium":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg",113,150,true]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"Joshua","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=1213"},"magazine_blocks_comment":2,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/62ee23f8f40307578d1f284ecd823d77f32da8ea35541e7dbdafeb5da1a4e877?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"<a href=\"#\" class=\"category-link category-link-1\">News<\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}