{"id":72689,"date":"2025-07-01T03:48:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T18:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/30\/prada-accused-of-cashing-in-on-indian-culture-with-kolhapuri-inspired-sandals"},"modified":"2025-07-01T03:48:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T18:48:03","slug":"prada-accused-of-cashing-in-on-indian-culture-with-kolhapuri-inspired-sandals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72689","title":{"rendered":"Prada accused of cashing in on Indian culture with Kolhapuri-inspired sandals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fashion house acknowledges work of traditional artisans after accusations of cultural appropriation<\/p>\n<p>Prada has acknowledged that its new leather sandal design was inspired by India\u2019s famous Kolhapuri \u201cchappals\u201d \u2013 handcrafted shoes known for their toe-loop design \u2013 after facing criticism over its failure to credit the footwear\u2019s origins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe acknowledge the sandals \u2026 are inspired by traditional Indian handcrafted footwear, with a centuries-old heritage,\u201d Lorenzo Bertelli, the corporate social responsibility chief at the Italian fashion house, said in a letter to the Maharashtra chamber of commerce.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/30\/prada-accused-of-cashing-in-on-indian-culture-with-kolhapuri-inspired-sandals\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fashion house acknowledges work of traditional artisans after accusations of cultural appropriationPrada has acknowledged that its new leather sandal design was inspired by India\u2019s famous Kolhapuri \u201cchappals\u201d \u2013 handcrafted shoes known for their toe-loo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4603,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[576,62,3353,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fashion","category-india","category-prada","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4603"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72690,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72689\/revisions\/72690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}