Sonia Gandhi dislikes bling. Above all, keep it simple, she says. Just like Indira. That was Sonia Gandhi's style tip to a crowd of fashion students gathered in Rae Bareli, her home constituency.

"In the recent years, I have noticed a trend in Indian fashion to overdo, to over-embellish clothes. Sometimes a single garment will have zardozi, beads, sequin, patchwork as well as crystals,' complained Mrs. Gandhi, speaking at a function organized by the National Institute of Fashion Technology on Wednesday. More