Other Voices

Visitors to "Vogue's Fashion Night Out," one of the most popular events of Madrid's Fashion Week, are witness to a collaboration between an NGO in India and a fashion design school in Madrid. But a far more valuable result of this collaboration than the hand-embroidered and batiked creations for sale are the Indian women of the City of Joy--a slum in Calcutta--whose lives have been changed by the NGO's program. Alison Hughes talks with the coordinator of The Colors of Calcutta, María de Muns of the Fundación Ananta. For more information, visit their website: www.fundacionananta.org/coloresdecalcuta/ (31/08/12).