Payal Jain gives us nifty wearable options, Tarun dresses the groom’s extended family in dhotis-pearls, while Pankaj and Nidhi serenade mocha, and Samant Chauhan flirts with sci-fi bejewelled shoulders.
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Craft-soaked Bandhini to experiments with Chikankari, Naushad Ali adds a European influence to Indian textiles serenading a global buyer.
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His father is a textile merchant, based in Pondicherry,...
Converting waste into textural garments with a strong sense of identity, Ankur Verma of Til tells us, 3 months to craft one cape, several artisans create magic with just the power of discarded fabrics.
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Jenjum Gadi didnt need to fly to South Africa or Mexico to get his inspiration, it was right here in the busy streets of the capital where he found the humble gota and he decided to elevate it to new...
When you see an advance being paid to designers in more than three booths, assume safely that business has been brisk! And so it has been at WIFW SS 2013. (more…)
As another season of WIFW wraps up, the success of the week is being judged by the business designers have been able to generate at this trade event (with a big dollop of glamour of course!) (more…)
Aneeth Arora was in Lucknow for a wedding when she saw men outside the mosque in crochet caps and white, long chikankari kurtas and lungis, instantly she knew that was going to be the theme for her SS...
Sexy, flirty and feminine, these three words best describe fashions most stylish sisters Gauri and Nainika Karan. With a rainfall of high slits, scooped backs, exaggerated shoulders, and fabric swirls...
Pricing swimwear at Rs 8,000 onwards for a label only two years old in India seems like a gutsy move but the confident duo of Shivan & Narresh, who debut at WIFW SS 2013 have a plan chalked out. (more…)
Our hunt for the coolest accessories to flaunt in Spring Summer 2013 continues. The first two editions of this series have already thrown up diverse options to suit different personal styles. Here are...
Come Spring-Summer and prints become a tool to depend on for a majority of the fashion fraternity. The reason is simple. Summer clothing has to be light and airy with minimal add-ons and prints allow that...
Maachis, Sadak Chaap and now Sapna Cinema. You may love or hate Nida Mahmoods kitschy, bohemian work but there is little chance youll be able to ignore it. Whether its the catchy names of her collections...
Gaurav Gupta used them in shoes, Pia Pauro in her outfits and Elisha Wadhwani utilised them in her embellishments. Screaming neon colours are no more restricted to advertising signs, theyve been jazzed...
Gaurav Gupta understands what new-age women want, slinky, draped dresses in eye-popping colours. Neon was the flavour of the day, as GG, tempted all fashionistas with his kaftan style, floor length numbers...
It was a night after a good meal that Alpana and Neeraj Chauhan were watching a documentary on the Arctic on TV. The colours of the melting icebergs, the sun setting as it turns crimson, the beautiful...
Growing up his father was keen Rahul Mishra study for the Indian Administrative Service or join IIT, so he was quite disappointed when the physics graduate decided to join NID. But the math that he was...
It was a tribute to Bhagalpur silk with Bollywood star Manoj Bajpayee doing the honours by adding oodles of masala, as Samant Chauhan showed his eclectic line complete with floor sweeping silhouettes on...
There are 10 accessory designers on display at WIFW this season. Weve asked them to pick out one piece from their collection and tell us why it is the accessory to flaunt in Spring Summer 2013. In the...
Ive been very angry for the past 3 months. I dont know why but Ive been angry and I thought it will be a challenge to translate that aggression through white, says Kallol Datta. And thats why his...
If you are not one to blend in the crowd, Valliyan by Nitya Arora qualifies to vie for your favourite accessory label. Bold, Chunky, Can-not-miss pieces justify the note Nitya has put up on her website...
You cant ask God anything more than he has given you. It is this philosophy that helps veteran designer James Ferreira keep his head above water in the fashion industry. Where most designers are encouraging...
After seeing the work done by the NGO Mijwan Welfare Society, founded by Kaifi Azmi and run by his daughter and veteran actress Shabana, to give employment and financial support to Mijwan girls in Azamgarh,...
Growing up in Nagaland, the one style lesson that Atsu Sekhoses mother taught him was less is more. And that is what got etched in the designers mind as a student at NIFT Delhi and also when he launched...
Bollywood wife and glamourista Suzanne Roshan may have turned many heads in her little red number as she sat in the front row of buddy Surily Goels show at the WIFW SS 13, but it was undoubtedly the quiet...
Yes youve heard that the right (or wrong!) accessory can make (or break!) a look. No one believes more in that truth than the 10 accessory designers displaying their Spring Summer 2013 collections at...
Diederik Verbakel and Marieke Holthuis met at the Academy of Art, Arnhem when they were design students and 17 years later, besides completing each others sentences, they both are best friends forever....
