Pirelli Calendar Honours India with Padma Lakshmi and Freida Pinto
The annual calendar includes 3 photographers and highlights Indian festivals, locations and diversity through images featuring Padma Lakshmi, Freida Pinto and other stars.
- On Friday, Pirelli presented its 2027 calendar in New Delhi, featuring an all-Indian cast including Padma Lakshmi and Freida Pinto. The project pays homage to India's beauty and diverse culture.
- For the first time, three photographers offered perspectives on the country. Sundsb worked alongside the late Raghu Rai, who passed away in April 2026, with his daughter Avani Rai carrying his legacy forward.
- Actress Aditi Rao Hydari and model Bhavitha Mandava posed at Jaigarh Fort in Jaipur, Rajasthan, while model Lakshmi Menon posed in a look inspired by the Hindu festival of Holi. The shoot captures India's coexistence of ancient and contemporary realities.
- Freida shared her hope that the calendar conveys true diversity, stating, "So, when people see this calendar, I hope they see how different we are and how we can all still coexist beautifully." Participants highlighted internal variations within Indian culture.
- Pirelli has evolved significantly since 2017, when the company began "ripping up the rule book" by abandoning its tradition of featuring scantily-clad models. The calendar now focuses on cultural and feminist themes.
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Sølve Sundsbø, Raghu and Avani Rai Shoot 2027 Pirelli Calendar in India
The three-photographer project depicts old and modern India with a soulful allure and cast of stars including Ranveer Singh, Rupi Kaur, and Bhavitha Mandava, as well as ordinary Indian people.
On the one hand, Old Delhi, a messed-up, malodorous and full of colors, where uninterrupted swarms of tuk-tuk are stuck between the sacred cows and the electric cables hang like liana on the spice benches with the monkeys clinging to them, between the noise of the street barbers and the flower market. On the other hand, the New Delhi colonial, rigorous, clean and tidy, dominated by immense tree-lined avenues and buildings in perfect Empire style…
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Photographers Sølve Sundsbø and Avani Rai show the country's many realities of contrasts through two complementary looks
It is so difficult to summarize in 12 images a country with more than 1.4 billion people, dozens of languages and hundreds of colors that, in the 2027 edition of its famous calendar, Pirelli decided to make not one, but two folhiñas. The first, is signed by Norwegian Sølve Sundsbø, one of the great names of contemporary fashion photography, which signed last year's calendar and collects campaigns for Gucci, Nike and Estee Lauder. And the second,…
The narrow alleys of the old town of Delhi, the modern skyline of Mumbay, the lush nature of Rahjastan: for the first time in 53 editions the Pirelli calendar chooses India as a background. (ANSA)
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