Opinion
Mamdani and the City: Reinventing the political cool with style
New York's first Muslim mayor is also fashion's latest poster boy. Not because of what he wears, but because of how he fits — into a moment, a mood, a generational shift.

Haimanti Mukherjee writes with a reporter’s nerve and an editor’s intolerance for nonsense. A columnist and senior editorial leader with over two decades in India’s top newsrooms, she has launched media brands, broken stories, and killed bad adjectives before breakfast.
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New York's first Muslim mayor is also fashion's latest poster boy. Not because of what he wears, but because of how he fits — into a moment, a mood, a generational shift.