The mustard silk dress worn by Bhumika Shodhan hungrily laps up the afternoon sunshine. The resulting liquid gold shimmer swirls in rhythm to her graceful, long-limbed strides, as she makes her way around a huddle of mighty Corinthian columns. We are at Shanti Kunj, the 140-year-old mansion built by Sir Chinubhai Madhowlal Ranchodlal, great-great-grandfather of Bhumika’s husband Shyamal Shodhan, the other half of Ahmedabad’s hyphenated couple and the mind behind the fashion label Shyamal & Bhumika. Interestingly, the extravagant soirées that were once held on the quadrangular deck—clad in tiles shipped from Europe over a hundred years ago by Shyamal’s forebears—was the inspiration behind the couple’s show, The Princess’s Soirée, at India Couture Week 2017 in July.
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