Travel & Living
In India with Simon Liberati and Christian Louboutin
In Calcutta we follow our epicurean reporters in their new adventures. Eva has an important mission: design with her friend Christian Louboutin and designer Mukherjee Sabyasachi a collection of dresses worthy of the name “Arabian Nights”. Simon, for his part, surrenders to the Bengali humidity.
I remember very well the day that Eva first spoke to me about this trip to India. It was a few days before she left to join Christian Louboutin in Shanghai. She told me, triumphantly, that we would go to Calcutta in July. I objected, saying that monsoon season was a strange time for sightseeing in Bengal. I had memories of a soaked Rudyard Kipling or Somerset Maugham. I saw curtains of rain and alcoholics on the return in full crisis of gin-malaria. Eva told me that she had already spent several summers in India, alone in the middle of the monsoon season. Besides, she knew of India only in the monsoon. The last time I was in Bombay was in the last century…
