Sonam Kapoor Delivers Optimism In John-Paul Pietrus Images For Elle India January 2018

Bollywood actor Sonam Kapoor is styled by Malini Banerji in R.E.S.P.E.C.T, lensed by John-Paul Pietrus for Elle India January 2018./Hair by Keiichiro Hirano; makeup by Ruby Hammer

Kapoor's interview focuses on optimism, a feeling in short supply in today's world. She reminds us:

Eye: Fashion Icon Iris Apfel Covers Elle India November 2017, By Bikramjit Bose In 'Friday With Iris'

Eye: Fashion Icon Iris Apfel Covers Elle India November 2017, By Bikramjit Bose In 'Friday With Iris'

Fashion icon, interior designer and American businesswoman Iris Apfel, rolling at age 96, fronts the November 2017 issue of Elle India. Malini Banerji styles Iris in images by Bikramjit Bose for 'Friday With Iris'. / Makeup by Eric Vosburg

Iris Apfel is known for being blunt. For example, when asked by Fashionista about dressing for your age, she responded: "I think that's stupid," Apfel says about the phrase. "I think [designers are] all entirely too youth-oriented. I think a lot of designers create very expensive clothes for women [in their] 60s and 70s — people who wear them — and they create them for 16- and 18-year-old bodies. The kids can't afford to buy them and the women look like a horse's ass if they put it on. So it's all out of whack."

Listen up, designers! Apfel sat down with T Magazine's Deborah Needleman in 2013.

Ujjwala Raut Wears A 'Raw Beauty' Captured By Tarun Vishwa For Elle India July 2017

Top model Ujjwala Raut is styled by Malini Banerji in rich, sensual, drawing-room opulence for 'Raw Beauty'. Photographer Tarun Vishwa captures Raut for Elle India July 2017./ Hair & makeup by Deepa Verma