Home design is the third venture for the New Delhi-born Ms. Singh, who is known for costume versions of Indian-inspired jewelry.
However, at Halloween, a time of year when costume versions of religious artefacts are so prominent – the crucifix, anyone?
Their aesthetic is bright, kaleidoscopic, a child's vision of abundance frozen and preserved; she borrowed it in part from the genre of Czech movies called pohádka, lavish costume versions of fairy tales.
As part of the #Force4Fashion label and ongoing charity effort in partnership with Bloomingdale's, 11 designers were chosen to create their own costume versions of iconic characters from George Lucas' films, as well as new characters from the highly-anticipated new film.
When you first saw him on stage, he was wearing very plain clothes – the period-costume version of cardigan and slippers.
(This premiere is the completed and costumed version of a dance Mr. Wheeldon made with these same dancers in Vail last year).
No such excesses take place in this straightforward, Jacobean-costumed version, which marks the directorial debut of actor Eve Best, and which is marred only by her tendency to search out unexpected comedy in Shakespeare's sombre tragedy.
The first three years, organizers of Advertising Week also put on parades in Midtown that featured costumed versions of the nominated and winning characters.
It is not just that a majority of the nominees take place in lovingly imagined and carefully costumed versions of the past — that in itself is hardly new — but also that several look back with affection at earlier phases in the history of cinema.
There have been comics in Brazil, mechanical installations at shopping malls in Denmark, costumed versions of Happiness Factory characters, including propeller-lifted Chinoink and the large-lipped furball Kissy Puppy, lumbering into supermarkets in Japan.
By that we don't mean the shoulder pads, hairspray and sexy bodycon that form the headlines of 80s fashion, the costume party version.
