Vogue India Magazine - May - June 2026 - Love From Sangli

Theme: Body issue Fashion Skin craft - This piece explores the deep link between Indian tattoo traditions and craft. Fabric Health - A deep dive from a scientific perspective into how what we wear affects our health. Women carry things - A sweet essay on things women carry - out of need, love and compulsion. Conversation - What does transformation look like when it leaves visible marks on the body? How do strength and fragility coexist: in muscle, in fabric, in identity? In this conversation, Keerthana Kunnath, whose project Not What You Saw documents female bodybuilders from South India who challenge entrenched gender roles through physical strength, speaks with Rohit Mane, a London-based designer whose work draws on the metamorphosis of butterflies, his Indian heritage and the charged energy of electronic music. Second body - How clothes are made to last from different aspects - repurposed for multiple generations, clothes aligned with loss and memory. For example - Doodlage & Ritvik breathe new life into lost, forgotten and discarded materials. This will be a story with powerful anecdotes. Return of the fashion snob, Miranda Priestly has raised a generation of fashion snobs (linked to DWP 2) Method dressing - At 28, self-managed creator and presenter Zainab Jiwa is putting a new spin on red-carpet style with her hijab-led take on method dressing. Handle with care - a personal essay with anecdotes from stylists on fashion’s most creative network. (couriers and deliveries) Bvlgari focused jewellery story. Beauty Spiritual Wellness - Gen Z’s version for spirituality The era before everyone got veneers With apps and tech, we might be diligently tracking our cycles, moods and hormones, but do we actually live in a world that makes space for those rhythms? We speak to 3–4 Indian women who are actively trying to reorganise their lives around their bodies. Vanity confidential- A look at the beauty products/vanities of stylists, dermats, creatives, sportsmen etc Culture Artist folio - Four artists make sense of the human body, What happens when you remove the body but the impact is still relevant. An interview with Farah Khan - From Tees Maar Khan to Happy New Year, and even the campy, self-aware chaos of Om Shanti Om and Main Hoon Na, her films revel in the silly, the over-the-top, the wonderfully illogical. But beneath the slapstick is a sharp understanding of why nonsense matters: it frees us from pressure, expectation and perfection. Micro-fiction - We’re inviting five to six authors to write micro-fictions of 100 words each, with every story anchored to a different body part—an ear, a wrist, a tongue, a spine. The brief isn’t anatomical but emotional: how does a shoulder carry grief? What does a knee remember? Monstrously feminine - More and more women, including me, find the idea of being grotesque and monstrous more comforting than the idea of being flawless and perfect. Interestingly, both these depictions are fantasies—male authors write a sexual, pedestalizing fantasy while female authors write a grotesque, monstrous one. Yet it is the latter: flawed women with unshaven legs, unruly eyebrows that women today are comforted by as opposed to women who morph and mould themselves to be perfect. Mani Ratnam turns 70 - in conversation with Tabu Female mountaineers - When we think of mountaineers, we always visualise men who are at the peak of their physical health. These female mountaineers are flipping that narrative, not only by virtue of their gender, but also through the various curveballs they've been dealt in life. Weddings A real couple wedding feature. How the algorithm entered the mandap - This piece would explore what it feels like to outsource your wedding documentation to someone whose job is to make it look spontaneous. Through conversations with Indian wedding content creators and couples who hired them, the story will examine the desire for “real” memories, the relief vs pressure to perform and the weird intimacy of hiring someone to shadow your joy. Search for the ideal wedding venue - have asked the commercial team to share a list of key hospitality partners + wedding planners. Read more