Princess Diana Had a 'Pretty Woman' Moment After Being Turned Away From Top Designer Ahead of Her Wedding "Big mistake. Big. Huge!" Marie Claire · Jun 5, 2025
David Sassoon obituary Fashion designer who worked with Belinda Bellville and dressed Diana, Princess of Wales, for many years The Guardian - UK · Apr 16, 2025
‘Too sticky. Too saucy. Too weird’: could I persuade my son to eat the food of my heritage? Before she became a mother, Samantha Ellis secretly judged other parents who let their children subsist on white bread and pesto-pasta. And when her son was born she couldn’t wait to share the Iraqi Jewish food of her ancestors. Unfortunately, he had other ideas … The Guardian - UK · Apr 5, 2025
Belinda Bellville obituary Designer whose dressmaking partnership with David Sassoon included Diana, Princess of Wales among its society clientele The Guardian - UK · May 27, 2024
What India’s Jewish buildings have to say Jewish-origin architecture in the country appears to advocate a community-led way of life. What’s unique is that the restoration and adaptive reuse of synagogues, hospitals and houses is often funded by people of other faiths The Hindu · Apr 5, 2024
‘Diana wanted five maternity coats’: David Sassoon on tailoring to royalty The 91-year-old son of Iraqi Jews looks back on his rise as a dress designer for clients including nearly every female British royal The Guardian - UK · Oct 14, 2023
Mumbai: A Baghdadi Jew revisits childhood haunts to relive 200-year legacy MUMBAI: An old man wearing the kippah skullcap paced frantically around the Magen David Synagogue in Byculla's Jewish compound on a muggy evening last week. He approached a policeman and pointed towards the locked Nagpada Gate on the compound's southern wall asking for it to be opened. But the watchman… The Times of India · Aug 8, 2022
The Global Merchants by Joseph Sassoon review – the rise and fall of a dynasty The Sassoons’ business empire once straddled the world, but later generations lacked the drive to keep it going The Guardian - UK · Feb 25, 2022