Good old love stories are set to take a turn in Recreate by Aiman, designer Aiman Agha's new collection unveiled at Lakmé Fashion Week. Inspired by the words of French philosopher and priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the collection is a macabre yet visually stunning take on symbolic motifs that we associate with love and ...
Back to school looks are my weakness, and that’s an understatement. This gleaming gold dress by Rajesh Pratap Singh was love at first sight. Add a white shirt to the mix and I am ready to wear this outfit everywhere, every day. Sohini Dey, Senior Fashion Editor Have you ever seen black go wrong? Rarely. I love ...
Her designs have been spotted on the likes of Jennifer Lopez and Anne Hathaway. Jewellery designer Amrita Singh, founder and creative director of her New York-based eponymous design label has bejewelled the stars and created countless best-selling pieces over the years. As she makes her foray into India, the designer gives us a glimpse of her ...
Name Priyanka Chopra Line of Work Actress and singer Body type Lean hourglass. Miss Chopra boasts curves to die for. Personal style Trendy and über glamorous, always with a hint of edgy. Resumé The former Miss World was poised for great things from the moment she stepped into Bollywood. From playing a supermodel in Fashion—a role that earned her a National Award—to essaying ...
Photographs VASANTH PAUL How would you describe your personal style? Classic and minimalist, but with a boho twist. What are your fashion influences? I find street style very inspiring. It’s always interesting to track fashion and watch how people adapt runway looks to their own style. What are your closet’s most prized possessions? A vintage watch I got as a gift, ...
Think pink and everything saccharine comes to mind. Cupcakes, poufy dresses, strawberry ice-cream, and all things pretty. But as Reese Witherspoon showed us in Legally Blonde, this hue is so much more than its feminine stereotypes. For pink isn’t just pretty and men can (and should) wear it too. Pantone—the world’s foremost authority in colour ...
Bold florals, cheeky one-liners, pop-inspired bicycles—Nuteez, an emerging versatile loungewear brand is all about letting your hair down. Founder, and CEO, Vijayashree Parameswaran lets us in on her bright ideas. Nuteez in five words Fun, colour, quirky, comfort, and cosy Lounging about All we’ve in the name of sleepwear in this country are generic colour and patterns, ...
Our noses twitched curiously as we chanced upon The Perfume Library via its enticing website. We’ve always been fans of fragrances—nothing’s quite as luxurious as the hint of scent behind your ears—but this promised something more. Founded by Jahnvi Dameron Nandan, this “theatre of olfactive memories” endeavours to consolidate fragrances with collective memory and align ...
Text: Sohini Dey | Design: Swikriti Banerjee We aren’t artists—you might hear many designers say. Yet fashion often shows a strong affinity for the arts. Inspired by painters (check Shivan & Narresh’s Diego Rivera-inspired collection) or reminiscent of varied schools of art in technique, aka Sanchita Ajjampur, art surfaces again and again in design. We came across two fresh ...
It’s time to give that trusty old white shirt a break. Sceptics may scoff, but your wardrobes will look at great deal better with some colours on your shelves. To help you set up, we sought advice from designers Pratham and Gyanesh Sarvaiya, whose AW15 collection boasted a generous splash of bright hues. The Mumbai-based ...
BEING SANCHITA... Free-spirited, nomadic, energetic, artistic. EARLIEST FASHION MEMORY I grew up with a keen awareness of tactility and colours. I chose toys based on how it felt to touch them; likewise my clothes had to feel good against my skin. Today, this feel-good factor is one of the pillars of my brand. My mother’s wardrobe ...
Everyone has a favourite season—mine happens to be winter. Others might shiver (pun intended) at the thought of bundling up, but I’m never happier to pull out and wear my sweatersand larger than life overcoats. You may not be a rapturous fan of the dipping temperature, but there’s no reason to dress dreary in the ...
Text: Sohini Dey | Design: Pallabi Majumdar If your idea of a perfect getaway includes a view of the mountains or a day on the beach, you might be initially disappointed with Bangkok. At first glance, it may seem like a spruced up version of our very own metropolitan cities, but look closely and the Land ...
Text: Sohini Dey | Images: Courtesy A Hundred Hands In Bagli Tehsil, Madhya Pradesh, tribal women craft bags and clutches using patchwork and geometric patterns. Coorg resident Thangamma Monappa uses decoupage in storage items and whips up lip-smacking preserves. Mahesh lives in his own glass kingdom, using biochemistry to conjure works of art. Starting tomorrow, these—and artists ...
Compiled by Sohini Dey Burgundy, in its varied avatars, boasts many names. At its darkest, the name is oxblood—macabre in name yet seductive in appearance. Marsala, the Pantone Colour of 2015, is an earthier shade, sometimes dulled dubbed, but loved for its full-bodied mood. And then there’s burgundy itself, dark and robust, mysterious and sensual, much like ...
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