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n 1989 actor Dimple Kapadia, star of the film (1973), was photographed in a campaign wearing a velvet, high-collared men’s sherwani. The image was for designers Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla, who had opened their first store, Mata Hari, just three years before in 1986 in Juhu, Mumbai. The gender-bending sherwani might be hailed as cutting-edge in the current conversations about gender-fluid dressing, when images of women in power suits and men in skirts still get feted. But for the Mumbai-based

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