Aastha Kastiya

The Name Remains. The House is Gone. What Bankruptcy Law Protects in a Fashion House, and What it Quietly Lets Die

The Name Remains. The House is Gone. What bankruptcy law protects in a fashion house, and what it quietly lets die. In 1984, Roy…

by Aastha Kastiya

August 6, 2026

Column

Sun as Signifier: The Euro Summer Never Goes Out of Style. Here is exactly why it cannot.

“There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into…

by Aastha Kastiya

June 29, 2026

Fashion Law·Fashion Weeks & Show

Art at the Pleasure of the State: Cannes, French Law, and the Regulation of Global Glamour

The Festival de Cannes is the most-watched cultural event on earth. It is also, quietly, one of the most governed. This is the story…

by Aastha Kastiya

May 18, 2026

Column·Fashion Trends

The Exception Wears Prada

There is a category of power that the law has always found it more convenient to describe than to discipline. Giorgio Agamben, following Carl…

by Aastha Kastiya

May 6, 2026

Column·Fashion Law

The Business of Being Unattainable: Luxury Scarcity, Economic Theory, and the Law’s Uneasy Encounter with Prestige

Luxury begins, rather inconveniently for economists, at the precise moment economics starts to look a little naïve. Economists adore tidy stories. Demand rises, supply…

by Aastha Kastiya

April 21, 2026

Case Study·Fashion Law

Securitising the Sparkle: When Jewelry Begins to Behave Like a Security

A diamond necklace rests quietly against a silk collarbone. It catches the light with studied discretion, refracting brilliance in disciplined geometry. It is purchased…

by Aastha Kastiya

March 22, 2026

Fashion Trends

Call Me by Your Reference: On Aesthetic Amnesia, Unnamed Muses And The Cost Of Curation In 2026

Curation Is Not Neutral Anymore Fashion likes to pretend that curation is instinct. A feeling. A collage. Something ineffable and therefore untouchable. In 2026,…

by Aastha Kastiya

February 13, 2026

Fashion Law

When Paris Filed for Residency in Mumbai: How Brands Navigate India’s Multi-Brand Retail Laws

When news broke that Galeries Lafayette was stepping into Mumbai, the city didn’t merely react — it tilted, ever so slightly, on its cultural…

by Aastha Kastiya

December 2, 2025

Fashion Law

All in One Breath: Dior, Anderson, and the Discipline of Power

“Voir grand, sans oublier les fondations.” Dream big, but never forget the foundations. When Jonathan Anderson unveiled his first Dior show as the house’s…

by Aastha Kastiya

October 27, 2025

Fashion Law·Fashion News

From Atelier to Audit: Loro Piana’s Judgement

“Made in Italy is not a passport to morality.” July 2025: Some people in Milan will not remember this month for its summer sales,…

by Aastha Kastiya

October 2, 2025

Fashion Law

Wardrobe as Sanction: Fashion in Geopolitical Conflict

History will not only remember the treaties signed or the wars waged, but the wardrobes that framed them. Garments, long dismissed as frivolity, have…

by Aastha Kastiya

September 24, 2025

Fashion Law

Wardrobe as Statecraft: The Legal Threads of Global Diplomacy

Clothes, in diplomacy, are never merely clothes. They are not plucked from wardrobes in the soft chaos of an indecisive morning, but composed under…

by Aastha Kastiya

August 27, 2025

Fashion Law

When Fashion Says Less, Can the Law Say Enough?

There was a time when luxury announced itself. Monograms, metallics, and maximalist branding were its language, and recognition was the point. Today, discretion speaks…

by Aastha Kastiya

August 11, 2025

Fashion Law

The Royal Edit: Fashioning Law, Livelihood and Lineage

Jaipur has never whispered. Its beauty is deliberate, stitched into sandstone facades, mirrored in thikri glass, and carried in the scent of hand-dyed fabric…

by Aastha Kastiya

July 23, 2025