{"id":322117,"date":"2026-03-04T22:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T22:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/322117\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T22:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T22:48:07","slug":"on-the-podcast-british-vogues-march-cover-star-bhavitha-mandava-and-impressions-from-dior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/322117\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Podcast: British Vogue\u2019s March Cover Star, Bhavitha Mandava\u2014and Impressions From Dior"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Bhavitha Mandava got word that she\u2019d been cast as the Chanel bride in Matthieu Blazy\u2019s spring 2026 couture show<\/a>, she approached the role the way she did her research papers at NYU: Mandava headed straight to a Paris library to pore over books on couture and watched every video of prior Chanel brides that she could find.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen I came up with a story in my head. I was like, okay, I\u2019m going to view the audience around me as if they\u2019re my friends and family, and I\u2019m going to view the runway as if I\u2019m walking down the aisle,\u201d she tells Chioma Nnadi on this Wednesday\u2019s episode of The Run-Through.<\/p>\n

A few weeks before her bridal moment, Mandava had made history as the first Indian model to open a Chanel show: that one being Blazy\u2019s M\u00e9tiers d\u2019Art 2025\u20132026 presentation, staged in a New York City subway station. In a full-circle moment, her look at the show was not unlike the outfit she\u2019d worn when she was scouted.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was on my way to grab biryani with a friend after getting rejected from an interview,\u201d she recalls. \u201cI was waiting for him at Atlantic Avenue when my now \u2018mother agent\u2019 came up to me and asked, \u2018Are you a model?\u2019 I said, \u2018No.\u2019 And he said, \u2018Do you want to be one?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Initially skeptical, Mandava was ultimately persuaded by the prospect of paying off her school debts. Just a few months later, she had fully launched her modeling career and amassed more than 500,000 followers on social media. \u201cMy dad is collecting every newspaper,\u201d she says. \u201cHe\u2019s clipping all the articles about me, like [in] The New York Times. I don\u2019t even know how he got it. They don\u2019t ship to India.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier in the episode, our fashion week coverage continues with Chloe and Arden Fanning Andrews, Vogue\u2019s beauty editor at large, sharing their thoughts in the car following Jonathan Anderson\u2019s latest collection for Dior<\/a>. Their highlights included the epic lilypad shoes, Love Story\u2019s Paul Anthony Kelly dancing to the runway music, and the \u201cwiglets\u201d (you must listen to find out what those are!). Reflecting on the greenhouse setting, Arden made one bold prediction: \u201cSweat is in.\u201d You heard it here first, folks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Bhavitha Mandava got word that she\u2019d been cast as the Chanel bride in Matthieu Blazy\u2019s spring 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46,10350,41657],"class_list":["post-322117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-models","tag-the-run-through-with-vogue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}