Members of the FEMEN group, who have gained international notoriety with their topless protests, scaled the balcony of the Indian Cultural Centre in Kyiv and also turned their anger on the residence of the Indian ambassador in the capital, striking the door with the pole that hoisted Indian flag. The Ukrainian Prosecutor-General’s Office on February 16 opened […]
Folks the Front-Row hullabaloo is nowadays only at the Media Section. Dolly Aunties are giving fashion weeks a miss so I rarely spot a cat-fight for a front-row seat these days. Media Section front-row is getting busier by the season. So few of us came with a solution that I think I should propose to […]
The second day of the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week (WIFW) Autumn-Winter 2012 was a mixed bag. We had the tyrant of Bigg Boss 5 – Pooja Mishra walking the ramp. Come on spare us (no pun intended) the drama Chandrani! But yes the encouraging bit was some fabulous shows and my vote goes to […]
Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week (WIFW) Fall-Winter 2012 kicked off yesterday and in many of the day’s shows I had that same question disturbing me – ‘Is this a fall-winter collection?’ Year after year I had raised this question and been shut-up by the staple answer – ‘Besides Delhi there’s no Winter in India.’ Anyway […]
The world’s biggest luxury conglomerate – LVMH buying a stake in a non-luxury homespun label built by the Bissels – Fabindia is not that many would had thought of. But then the L Capital Asia – the Private Equity arm of LVMH formed with a corpus fund of $640 million to invest in local brands primarily […]
After the High-Fashion Apparel Labels it is the time for Luxury Shoe Labels to collaborate with Mass-Market Brands. But it came as a surprise to many when J. Crew announced the association with Manolo Blahnik. Surprise because Manolo was vocal enough not to pollute his brand with Mass-Market association. This is what he said in […]
You read it here at 108.168.206.104/~fashions/ first! The well-known designer Diane von Fürstenberg has confirmed her attendance at the forthcoming HT Mint Luxury Conference 2012, scheduled for 23rd & 24th March at The Taj Landsend, Mumbai. Last year the Mint Luxury Conference had designer Emanuel Ungaro as one of their esteemed guests. But Diane von Fürstenberg is […]
Pretty girl Noor Ansal recently celebrated her birthday at a non-descript joint in GK. Daughter of Navin Ansal and Raseel Gujral, Noor’s birthday bash surely arose expectations of a classy bash with classy folks that we have seen at Navin and Raseel’s bashes. But alas Noor’s birthday party was a disaster. Noor Ansal’s birthday was at this unheard […]
Lakme Fashion Week was anyway going downhill for quiet sometime now as it had become nothing but a Bollywood Tamasha. But now that Old Guards have given way to the new team, the exodus of designers loyal to Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) to Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week (WIFW) was expected. After the face of LFW […]
Various parts of India bear a distinctive character and image. North India was always branded as brashfull; Eastern India as the bastion of intellectuals and communists; Western India as liberal and economically superior and Southern India as the cultured, educated and conservative part of India. But events of the past week has really sullied the […]