In conversation with Waris Ahluwalia: The Best Dressed Turban Explorer

In town to launch his new non-alcoholic drink—correction: “sparkling elixir”—Love Conquers All, Waris Ahluwalia, the famed Indian-American actor-designer-retailer-model, needs little introduction; the aesthete clothes horse’s steady stream of colourful imagery and spot-on outfits floods the stable of the mind long before he does.

BTS: Rang up photographer Natalie Dunn for this shoot - I knew someone as consciously stylish as Waris needed someone effortlessly elegant as Nat - and the pics turned out so well. In fact, there were about two dozen shots we could have run in any way, shape or form. Alas, the limitations of space. 

The spark was lit on drinking sparkling non-alcoholic beverages a while ago - its the rage now. There's a generational shift as people are consuming alcohol with such rarity that its become a cultural shift in global consumption. Fascinating to watch from a generation where getting blind drunk at 21 was the norm....   

Waris with photographer Natalie Dunn in Hong Kong.