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Yes, Prime Minister?

October 28th, 2009 at 10:08 am . by Payal

Hey if Barack can have his own dress, by way of print of course, why should Mr. Singh be left behind. Not that either dignitaries pow-pow’ed with the designers but they would be rather flattered don’t you think by the end result?
Besides, we love us a bit of kitsch served up the parliamentarian way. All those in favor, say ‘Aye’.

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Left: Jean-Charles De Castelbajac, Spring 2009
Right: Rohit Mittal, Spring 2010


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Left: Jean-Charles De Castelbajac, Spring 2009
Right: Rohit Mittal, Spring 2010

Photo Credit: Daylife, Coutorture


29 Comments to “Yes, Prime Minister?”
  1. tan ta da! says:

    all those who DETEST plagiarism say nayy!!

  2. koel says:

    Looks to me like a blatant copy of somebody’s idea. Also, the current Indian PM may be a good PM but he does not have that much star power…

    Disclaimer: I do not have much knowledge about the current Indian politics and Obama is loosing his popularity in the last 9 months but I still thought that the current Indian PM is not once in a millennium kind of celebrity.

    • Dits says:

      I totally agree. It is just a copy of some one else’s idea! And I like the Obama and would wear it.. but the Indian PM’s ..meh!

    • koel says:

      Actually ! come to think about it , It looks more like a campaign T shirt . I don’t think these kind of shirts have any market other than the election year….

      I would think that ppl would put their kids pics after getting inspired this but wait aren’t moms doing that for like 50 years ?

      Bottom line: the one on the left looks like a long t shirt for 2012 and the right one looks like a shameless copy of the not so original idea on the left.

  3. Stuti says:

    Aye!
    You guys always crack me up. :)
    This dress is too cute. I want so bad. And loook, the model looks so happy wearing it!

  4. MANGOgrl says:

    Manmohan Ji’s pic is so cute, wowwww..

    i love it.

  5. Not Impressed says:

    maybe the image of our esteemed PM should me a moved a tad higher– the umm..position is a bit disconcerting

  6. KP says:

    loving it …….

  7. Rezia says:

    I love the Obama dress. I love the President that way…anything alluding to him I think alludes to hope and that’s always good. I missed a really important microbiology lab just to watch his inaguration. He’s pretty awesome.

    I like that the PM is getting similar treatment, but something about how plagiarised this is makes me cringe. So I realllly hate the sentiment behind the second dress (plagiarism rather than a love of “hope and change”).

  8. Sushma Raju says:

    Manmohan jee Say cheese!!!

  9. Megha says:

    Firmly in the ‘love it’ bin!
    not sure i’d wear it lol…but can definitely appreciate it or someone else pulling it off
    trying to think of anyone in the celeb socialite crowd who could!

  10. mj15 says:

    straight up plagiarism!! but i still love the idea of our cute, balding sardi PM on a dres…i’d probably wear it to a halloween party or to the independence day parade in new york and shock all the jersey desis out of their minds ;-)

  11. divi says:

    Loving it on the ramp. But not sure where one would wear this otherwise? Election day may be?

  12. rak says:

    Barack, you mean… not barRack !

  13. Preeti says:

    Something about the positioning of PM’s pic is a bit concerning =/

  14. Saniya says:

    How original.

    Not.

  15. josie says:

    copy much? somebody should give the designer a dictonary and tell her to look up the word plagarism.

  16. pdaervo says:

    I WANT THE OBAMA ONE
    hehehe
    although it IS plagarism- but I like the idea (but not the fact that Rohit stole it)

  17. sim says:

    There’s going to be protests in India aren’t there…burning effigies is a national pass time ha ha

    • pia says:

      what nonsense.

      • belle desse says:

        wow I LOVE how evolved, sensitive and politically correct you are. And I’m also glad to note that you are intelligent enough not to make arrogant generalizations and broadly sweeping statements

        @ pia: aww…that’s the kind of response my mom would have (and I mean that in the NICEST way possible)

  18. Deepika says:

    I WANT I WANT!!This is too f*****g fabulous…another I <3 NY phenomenon!!

  19. Priyanka says:

    haha nevermind the plagiarism! Our prime minister is so cute lol

  20. div says:

    niiice… very manish arora like i must say.(boy, i loove manish arora’s artistic creations.) I wont say anything about the idea and if it was ripped off or not.

    And whoever says manmohan singh isnt a celebrity should think twice. He’s been ruling the roost two terms over… he’s a silent charmer when it comes to getting things done.
    ( I am very glad its him and not some narendra modi face on that dress…every dress made in his honour would be a funny sick orange.yelch!)

    And as for the obama dress, man wouldnt it be wonderfully hilarious to see michelle obama in it?

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