Fortune India - October 2026 - Luxury Special - Volume 5 - Number 8

Oct 18, 2026

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Luxury Special edition of Fortune India (October 2026), Volume 5, Number 8, focusing on India’s evolving cultural richness and the craft behind enduring luxury. The issue presents profiles and interviews spanning Fendi’s India story and family legacy, Pucci’s patterned heritage, fashion beyond the red carpet, leather and jewelry craftsmanship, and a Michelin-star chef’s unconventional path. It also includes corporate and business features on Tata’s legal showdown, Manipal Hospitals’ growth, intelligent homes, DeHaat’s technology for farmers, and Fortune Exclusive on a major CEO turnaround.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryResearch & Report

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Pages222

Reading Time9 h 19 min

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Luxury’s India Moment

In Focus

Nykaa founder Falguni Nayar

The Brief

Too Big To Fail

Aiming for the Low-hanging Fruit

Defending its Turf

Features

War At Tata

The Pai Theory

Piecing Together Intelligent Homes

Want Investors as Partners to Build a Viksit Chhattisgarh

Seeds of Success

Fortune Exclusive: The CEO Who Saved GE

Luxury Special

A Legacy in Her Own Making

A Life Painted in Pucci

Column: Fern Mallis

An Affair with Leather

Return of the Maverick

PR GI R E G N . .NO HA R E NG / 2 0 2 2 /8 8 8 4 3 VO L . 5 NO . 8 THE TATA WAR P.30 OCTOBER 2026 ■ FORTUNEINDIA. COM SILVIA VENTURINI FENDI ON INDIA’S CULTURAL RICHNESS, THE FAMILY LEGACY AND THE ART OF EVOLVING WITHOUT LOSING ITS ESSENCE. T H E L U X U R Y I S S U E The FENDI CODE OCTOBER 2 0 2 6 VOLUME 5 • NUMBER 8 LUXURY SPECIAL 80 A Legacy in Her Own Making Silvia Venturini Fendi on India, family, craftsmanship, and the art of keeping Fendi relevant. BY VINOD NAIR 90 A Life Painted in Pucci She grew up watching her father turn the world into patterns. Today, Laudomia Pucci is ensuring that story is never forgotten. BY VINOD NAIR 98 Column: Fern Mallis India’s next fashion frontier lies beyond the red carpet, writes the founder of New York Fashion Week. 108 An Affair with Leather Maria Sole Ferragamo’s fascination with leather may have been her family business, but what attracted her the most was crafting jewellery from material once part of a living being. BY AJITA SHASHIDHAR 114 Return of the Maverick Being rejected as a pilot in the Air Force gave wings to Vineet Bhatia, the first Indian chef to win a Michelin Star. BY ABHIK SEN PRISMATIC Paris Hilton dons an Emilio Pucci mock-neck top. FEATURES 30 War At Tata What lies ahead as Tata Sons and Tata Trusts are headed fora legal showdown? BY NEVIN JOHN 38 The Pai Theory How Ranjan Pai built Manipal Hospitals into more than a domestic behemoth. BY MANU BALACHANDRAN 46 Piecing Together Intelligent Homes LG plans to transform India into a manufacturing base for global exports. BY NEVIN JOHN 54 ‘Want Investors as Partners to Build a Viksit Chhattisgarh’ Interview with Chhattisgarh CM Vishnu Deo Sai BY ASHUTOSH KUMAR 60 Seeds of Success The tech behind DeHaat that touches over 13 mn farmers. BY ASHUTOSH KUMAR 72 Fortune Exclusive: The CEO Who Saved GE How Larry Culp engineered what some are calling the turnaround of the century. BY SHAWN TULLY FOREWORD 8 Luxury’s India Moment BY SOURAV MAJUMDAR IN FOCUS 12 Nykaa founder Falguni Nayar has not just taken risky bets; she has stood by them. Her children complement her skill sets. They are believers in ‘long-termness’when it comes to decisionmaking, she says. BY AJITA SHASHIDHAR THE BRIEF 18 Too Big To Fail BY CHITRANJAN KUMAR 22 Aiming for the Low-hanging Fruit BY NEVIN JOHN 24 Defending its Turf BY URVASHI MISHRA ON THE COVER S I LV IA VENTU R I N I FEN D I PHOTOGRAPH BY D IRK VOGEL COVER DESIGN BY AN IR BAN GHOSH In the magazine, you may come across pages called‘Fortune India Exchange’. No Fortune India journalist was involved in reporting on or making these pages. 6 F O R T U N E I N D IA • T O M B S T O N E EDITORIAL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Sourav Majumdar EXECUTIVE EDITOR V. Keshavdev EXECUTIVE CREATIVE DIRECTOR Anirban Ghosh EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Narendra Bisht NATIONAL CORPORATE EDITOR Nevin John NATIONAL EDITORS Ajita Shashidhar, Joe C. Mathew, P. B. Jayakumar DEPUTY EDITOR & CHIEF OF DELHI BUREAU Ashutosh Kumar DEPUTY EDITORS Manu Balachandran, Salil Panchal CONSULTING EDITORS Rukmini Rao, Vinod Nair ASSOCIATE EDITORS Subhojit Sarkar, Chitranjan Kumar ASSISTANT EDITOR Sankunni K. SENIOR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Avishek Banerjee SENIOR CORRESPONDENT Urvashi Mishra REPORTER Tamanna Mohanty CHIEF DATA RESEARCHER Sandeep N. Karkera CONTENT PRODUCER Debanjana Majumdar SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER Komal Srivastava DESK: DEPUTY EDITOR & HEAD OF MAGAZINE DESK Samali Basu Guha DEPUTY EDITOR & HEAD OF DIGITAL DESK Abhik Sen SENIOR ASSISTANT EDITOR Anita Babu CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER Sanjay Rawat PHOTO RESEARCHER Shaurya Jung Chauhan VIDEO EDITORS RajatYadav, Abhishek DEPUTY ART DIRECTOR Vikas Verma ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR Prabal Biswas BUSINESS LEADERSHIP CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Sahil Shetty CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER Madhur Gupta HEAD-EVENTS Preeti Misra LEA

FAQs

What is the theme of the October 2026 Fortune India issue?

The issue is themed as Luxury Special, centering on India’s cultural richness, family legacy, and the craft of evolving without losing essence.

Which featured business topics are included in the magazine?

Business features cover Tata’s legal showdown, the growth of Manipal Hospitals, intelligent homes manufacturing ambitions, DeHaat’s farmer-focused technology, and a CEO-led turnaround.

What profiles and industry stories are highlighted under Luxury Special?

Highlights include Silvia Venturini Fendi on legacy and relevance, Laudomia Pucci’s patterned storytelling, Fern Mallis’s fashion frontier, Maria Sole Ferragamo’s leather-to-jewelry craft, and Vineet Bhatia’s path to a Michelin Star.

Oct 18, 2026

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