BANDANA TEWARI

Culture Journalist and Sustainability Advocate

Bandana Tewari is a culture journalist and sustainability advocate and formerly, the editor-at-large of Vogue India for 13 years. She sat front row to a rapidly evolving industry and reported extensively on the global fashion industry. With her unrestrained and fiercely independent voice, understanding of socio-political dynamics of fashion and trademark forward thinking, she is considered one of India’s foremost authorities on fashion. Tewari’s pieces have appeared in publications such as The New York Times, US Vogue, British Vogue, ATMOS and several leading Indian journals — Mint Lounge, Platform and Take. In December 2017, she, along with documentary film-maker Andrew Morgan of The True Cost and Vanessa Friedman, spoke at the United Nations on the new handworker economy. She sits on the advisory boards of Nest and Redress Hong Kong and is special advisor to Copenhagen Fashion Summit.