The biggest fashion statement you can make today is one that is already on your body: the belly button. Partly due to sexy starlet Aishwarya Ray and other Bollywood babes, the navel has become the height of fashion in India. Some westerners may say that it was America that started the trend with Britney Spears in the late 90s, but India has a tradition surrounding the navel that goes back centuries!

“The belly button has always been in,” says Husain, just back from Singapore where he plans to shoot scenes of his forthcoming “Iqbal”.

“It has been an intrinsic part of the Indian woman. It has been part of Indian sculptures that go back so many centuries. That is why so many years ago, even in the 50s, all my works had women show their belly buttons.

“The West is highlighting it now, but to us it came down our history.”

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