feel an emotion via colour one needs to see the colour after many months i had a brainwave maybe we should put braille on clothing so that the blind can read the colour we reproduced the braille letters on cloth in fine french knots on another swatch we wrote braille in tiny pearls when i sent them to professor acharya he could not read them have you taken a photocopy of the braille letters wendell he asked no we marked them on a piece of paper corresponding with the six positions of each letter it is not going to work like that you can see the letter a as small as a pin or as tall as a building but for us the letter a must fit in a space in the exact braille size so that we can feel it with the ball of the fingertip a few experiments later i got an excited call from the professor wendell i can read the fabric what did i write on the cloth read it out for me i teased let me see it says the wendell rodricks visionnaire collection white shirt size medium i was delirious with joy so many years after helen keller no one had ever thought of putting braille on clothsalon pretaporter de paris sept 2007 another significant development in 2007 was that jewellery brands began to use fashion as a magnet to attract clients one overambitious jeweller decided that he was big enough to start a jewellery fashion week on his own with the number of brands he had in his stable perhaps he was we did a show for his luxury fest at the request of choreographer marc robinson but the jeweller has a terrible reputation for nonpayment his company famously gave shilpa shetty a crown in honour of one of her successes along with a certificate which said that the crown was worth crores but when shilpas manager had the crown assessed it turned out to be a fake from bhuleshwar worth about a thousand rupees sheetal malhar was similarly conned when she did an ad and was not paid her full rate when sheetal threatened court action she was told to go ahead that the case would drag on and nothing would happen choreographer alison kanuga too tells a similar taleextracted and reproduced with permission from the green room by wendell rodricks published by rupa publications