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Mumbai police to probe fashion show obscenity
Officials in Mumbai are to probe whether a blouse slipping off a model and a skirt’s malfunctioning zip at a recent fashion show were “deliberate” acts, a news report said yesterday.
Maharashtra’s Deputy Chief Minister R R Patil has asked the Mumbai police commissioner to check all video clips of the Lakme India Fashion Show held last week to check if the wardrobe malfunctions were a “deliberate and indecent act”, Indian Express newspaper reported. On March 29, a model’s halter blouse slipped down while she was walking the ramp. The next day another model’s skirt split because of a malfunctioning zip.
The events outraged Mumbai’s politicians who have been running a morality campaign which included shutting down of the city’s famous beer and dancing bars last year.
A legislator from the conservative rightwing Shiv Sena party raised the issue in the state legislature on Monday. “It (the halter blouse slipping) was an obscene act which was beamed again and again by TV channels. The government should take serious note,” Shiv Sena legislator Neelam Gorhe said.
“The issue of the dresses falling off at the fashion show was discussed in the legislative council (upper house of the state legislature) today,” Patil said on Monday. “We will take action against the people involved and the fashion organisers if investigation proves it was a deliberate act,” he added.
Patil said his government was not against fashion shows but wanted decency to be maintained.
“This was clearly a mistake and should be understood as one,” designer Narendra Kumar was quoted as saying by the Indian Express. “We don’t want everyone to be veiled, we are lucky to live in a free country.”
Although such moments are common at fashion shows, the media had questioned whether designers had conspired to create a stir for the low-key style festival that ended on Saturday ahead of a rival event in New Delhi which started yesterday. What a scandal!

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