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India to probe fashion show "wardrobe malfunctions"
Tue Apr 4, 2006 10:48 AM ET

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Outraged officials in largely conservative India will examine video clips to see whether a halter slipping off a top model or another's skirt zip splitting at a fashion show were "deliberate" acts, a state minister said.

Last week, model Carol Gracias's skimpy halter slipped down to her waist showing her breasts to snapping photographers and rolling TV cameras during a fashion show in Mumbai.

This was followed by another sensational "wardrobe malfunction" when former Miss India Gauhar Khan's skirt zip split, revealing her bottom to the media and Mumbai's smart set.

This has not gone well with Mumbai's politicians who have been waging a morality campaign which shut down the city's famous dance bars, making thousands of female dancers jobless.

"If we find that these acts were not accidental, then we will take action against the fashion show organizers," deputy chief minister of Maharashtra state R.R. Patil said late on Monday.

The wardrobe malfunctions at the fashion show caused a sensation in conservative India.

But some fashion designers say wardrobe problems do happen on the catwalk and don't understand what the fuss is all about.

"We don't want everyone to be veiled. We are lucky to live in a free country," fashion designer Narendra Kumar was quoted in The Indian Express Tuesday as saying, adding what happened to Gracias and Khan were "clearly a mistake."

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