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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Joe Bromley

Meet Bollywood star Sonam Kapoor: Dior's first South Asian global ambassador with ties to King and Beckhams

Every fashion month, paparazzi flash and fans flock to Sonam Kapoor as she takes her seat on the front row. Quickly, everyone learnt she is one of Bollywood’s biggest stars; the impeccably dressed actor who counts 35.3 million Instagram followers, calls Notting Hill home, and is now Dior’s first South Asian global ambassador.

She also owns a mansion in Delhi, a Mumbai pad where she hosted a welcome party for David Beckham when he travelled to India last November (“we were very happy to host him,” she says), and has an enviable UK network which also counts the royal family — she was asked to perform a piece of spoken word for the King’s Coronation concert in May 2023.

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