It is a proud day for the Indian Fashion Fraternity as veteran designer Ritu Kumar will be the first fashion designer to be bestowed with the prestigious ‘Padma Shri’ Award by the President of India today. On the 64th Republic Day Ritu Kumar will be conferred the Padma Shri; a recognition not only for Ritu but […]
Fashion and Politics gel well. Since French president Francois Hollande is expected to propose a same-sex marriage bill this Friday, Karl Lagerfeld thought it to be apt to show his support for gay marriage. Karl Lagerfeld sent not one – but two — brides down the runway for the finale of his spring 2013 Chanel Haute […]
Self-proclaimed Godman – Aasaram Bapu has been accused of rape by a minor (15-year-old) girl. The victim reported that she was being raped by Aasaram Bapu while her parents were sitting in the other room. Disgusting! Aasaram Bapu, the self-styled Godman sermonised the nation on how the gangrape victim – Nirbhaya would had avoided it […]
Media is abuzz with news of John Galliano’s return to fashion. Womenswear Daily (WWD) reported that Oscar de la Renta has invited the disgraced designer to “spend some time with him in his studio over the next three weeks to the run-up of to the New York Fashion Week.” It is believed that Anna Wintour […]
I came across this absolutely hilarious video on you Youtube where Gay men are talking about vagina. The thoughts are anywhere between weird to funny. One guy describes it as sandwich, while another compares the vagina with Tacos. Yet another draws parallel of the vagina with a old persons mouth. But all of them agree […]
Is it the era of ‘Paid Editorials’? Well Times of India started the ‘Paid Editorial’ concept way back in 2005. The group stuck to it against heavy criticism. Even The Hindustan Times was highly critical of TOI’s Media Net move. But now the other giant publication of Delhi – The Hindustan Times – too has […]
It seems no awards night is complete without the requisite wardrobe malfunctions these days and 2013 Golden Globes were no exception with the likes of Nicole Kidman and Julianne Hough going through the embarrassing moments and the likes of Miranda Kerr, Jennifer Garner, Eva Longoria all coming within a hair’s breadth of disaster. Nicole Kidman was […]
India being probably having one of the youngest fashion industry has almost fifty plus ‘fashion weeks’ while France having the world’s oldest and the biggest fashion industry has probably just three ‘fashion weeks’ – Haute Couture, Women’s Ready-to-Wear and Menswear. Add to that couple of trade shows like the Pret-a-Porter and Tranoi. Here in India, […]
Officials in Venezuela have reportedly found a floating corpse that has been linked to the missing airplane carrying fashion heir Vittorio Missoni, his companion and two other Italians, although officials later said that the body is of a long-missing fisherman in “advanced stages of decomposition.” The Venezuelan newspaper El Universal is reporting that a body was found floating […]
All eyes were on Balenciaga Pre-Fall 2013 collection. Reasons were obvious as everyone wanted to see how the new appointee – Alexander Wang fared after the departure of the maverick Nicholas Ghesquière. Well it seems that Alexander Wang and the studio team played it safe buy revisiting the archives of the label’s creator – Cristobal Balenciaga. […]