Arpana Agarwal, a renowned Luxury Consultant and Founder of Wonder Women Connect recently hosted the annual event “NEXUSS’19” at Vivanta by Taj, New Delhi. The event was followed by Power Walk for a Cause along with Award Felicitations. The Designers who showcased their Collections were Rashmi Goyal, Alka Mehrotraa, Collar by Mridula n Anju, Jewellery by Alka Ralhan. The event was in support to Life of Vision Foundation, an NGO who works for the upliftment of Girl Child in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh.
Many Well Known faces like Sandeep Marwah, Harvinder Makkar, Seema Midha, Lt. Rita Gangwani, Renu Hussain, Suparna Trikha, Rama Pandey, Gunjan Gaur, Dr.Varun Katyal, Manya Pathak, Asma Gulzar graced the occasion with their presence. Wonder Women Connect is an innovative networking hub for women from diverse fields to amalgamate, empower and to form a connect for mutual benefit and growth. The evening was followed by High Tea and members celebrated their annual event by showcasing their talents through singing n dancing.
“Art of Kashmir” is a Bespoke Fine jewellery collection by Neetu Bali which has the Artistic touch of luxury. It reflects the ancient craft of paper mâché which has been recreated in 22 kt gold by their artists. This collection was launched in London as a tribute to the craftsman of Kashmir. The collection has been designed keeping in mind the traditional glamour and modern day functionality. Each piece of this collection appreciates the intricate craftsmanship of the jewellery and the true purpose of its being- Art.
The designs have been evolved over time with the complete essence of exclusivity. Artistic Piece with Ruby & Emerald gems carved by nature-inspired elements gives a sophisticated look. The collection belongs to the niche market of art connoisseurs and aficionado. The starting price range for collection is Rs 20,000- onwards.
The world around us is massive and beautiful but we tend to turn a blind eye for the life under the ocean. The A/W’19 “Reef” collection takes inspiration from the stunning yet endangered ecosystem of the reefs and cues from the artwork of the street artist 1010’s murals.
ALL – The Plus Size Store and the Rina Dhaka show at Lakmé Fashion Week Winter Festive 2019 was a grand offering aimed at the plus size fashion followers.
The aLL Primero collection, the couture range from aLL offered a vast array of fashion options for men and women keeping in mind contemporary fashion stories, complementing different plus-size customers of varying body types. Whether it was the Apple, Pear, Hourglass, Rectangle or Carrot figures, the looks were ideal for all occasions and festivities.
The Plus Size Parade declares a culture where your body is beautiful just as it is, without manipulation of your weight or shape.
Show stoppers
Plus size actors Vahbiz Dorabjee & Delnaz Irani
Highlights
Rina Dhaka’s fashion story had color, style, and wearability that will appeal to a wide spectrum of buyers.
The designer brought a variety of prints with ombré tie-dye, soft plaid, linear floral, subtle stripes or temple flowers that were highlighted with contrast topstitching, tie-ups, and buttons. The silhouettes were kept elegant, and simple with drapes and wide construction with angular or asymmetrical lines.
A hint of tribal elements appeared as rouched details were seen for blouses that were ornamented with fringes, tassels, pom-poms and patched perfectly.
Shade Card
A vibrant palette with lilac, fuchsia, mustard, ivory for women with day to evening wear separates in quick succession.
Men’s wear
A collection of shirts (some with concealed plackets), baggy cargoes, yoked tunics and sleeveless waistcoats.
Shade Card
The men’s color story was strong and masculine with graded shades of brown, grey and black.
Highlights
At times there was a quirky grunge look with hints of bling and metallic effects along with plissé and jacquards.
lakme Fashion week presents designer Rina Dhaka during Lakme Fashion Week Winter / Festive 2019 at St Regis, Mumbai in Mumbai, India on August 25, 2019.
Photo : FS Images / Lakme Fashion Week / IMG Reliance
lakme Fashion week presents designer Rina Dhaka during Lakme Fashion Week Winter / Festive 2019 at St Regis, Mumbai in Mumbai, India on August 25, 2019.
Photo : FS Images / Lakme Fashion Week / IMG Reliance
lakme Fashion week presents designer Rina Dhaka during Lakme Fashion Week Winter / Festive 2019 at St Regis, Mumbai in Mumbai, India on August 25, 2019.
Photo : FS Images / Lakme Fashion Week / IMG Reliance
Master Class on Circular Fashion By Fashion for Good
Supported By Circular Design Challenge Was An Educative Session
The very interesting, innovative and informative, programme – Master Class on Circular Fashion by Fashion for Good was held for the first time at Lakmé Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2019, as part of a strategic cooperation between IMG Reliance and Fashion for Good from Amsterdam.
The Master Class was supported by India’s largest Sustainable Fashion Award, Circular Design Challenge presented by LFW, UN Environment and R|ElanTMFashion For Earth.
Priyanka Khanna, who leads the International Expansion at Fashion for Good and is currently focused on setting up Fashion for Good’s first regional programme in South Asia, conducted The Master Class. Priyanka Khanna is an MBA from Oxford University where she has been exposed to the best practices in a global environment.
The programme explored new fashion models in the fashion industry, which were revealed by real world success stories from start-ups. Technological innovation in the fashion industry which would lead to a simpler way of creating circular fashion models was a highlighted point.
Statistics about sustainable fashion and consumer behaviour, mainly based out of the European Union and United Kingdom, was shared to explain the current global scenario in the fashion industry. Key opportunities and key challenges of recommerce, rental businesses, takeback methods, remanufacturing/rework and digital fashion were explored during the masterclass. The future of circular business models in India and the process of popularising them was discussed.
Fashion for Good is an Amsterdam based globally renowned and credible innovation platform, focused on scaling technologies and business models for startups driving innovation in sustainability & circularity.
In a quick concise presentation Priyanka Khanna explained the various aspects of the need for Circular Business practices. She informed that fashion was good and bad but the ugly parts, like landfills filling up was of concern. With 100 billion garments made globally, it is believed that one is not aware of what happens to 99 per cent of the garments. 82 per cent of discarded apparel in UK and USA could be used.
Make Fashion Good, Priyanka felt was the need for Circular Fashion as she outlined different circular models and gave an overview of each. According to statistics, Priyanka informed that fashion consumption would grow until 2030 but the second-hand market was $ 51 billion with 55 per cent buying secondhand fashion. She also outlined circular business model types like key opportunities, challenges, impact and how to take back, remanufacture and rework. She added that circular fashion business models existed in Europe and USA but few in India. The Master Class by Priyanka Khanna from Circular Fashion by Fashion for Good ended with a Q & A round from the audience. Priyanka Khanna answered on government policies, statistics on reusability, substantiality being social and environmental and Fast Fashion.
Photo Caption:
MASTERCLASS ON CIRCULAR FASHION FOR GOOD SUPPORTED BY CIRCULAR DESIGN CHALLENGE during Lakme Fashion Week Winter / Festive 2019 at St Regis, Mumbai in Mumbai, India on August 21, 2019. Photo : FS Images / Lakme Fashion Week / IMG Reliance
Image 1: Priyanka Khanna, Lead International Expansion with Gautam Vazirani, Sustainable Fashion Curator for Fashion for Good at LFW WF 2019
Image 2: Priyanka Khanna, Lead International Expansion at Fashion for Good conducts a masterclass on circular fashion at LFW WF 2019
Image 3: Priyanka Khanna, Lead International Expansion at Fashion for Good conducts a masterclass on circular fashion
The star cast – Sanjay Dutt, Jackie Shroff, Chunky Panday, Ali Fazal, Satyajeet Dubey, and Amyra Dastoor came to National Capital for the trailer launch of their Upcoming Movie “ Prassthanam” along with the Director Deva Katta for the Movie trailer launch.
Prasstham is a political Drama Movie about a family and its relationships. Directed by Deva Katta and Produced by Maanyata Dutt.
Present at the event, Producer Maanayata said, ” Bringing such a wonderful star cast was not at all a problem for me. Everyone managed their dates for this movie. Although Chunky was busy in another movie and he also had mustache issue but he managed to be on the board.”
Sanjay Dutt spoke praised the young talents Ali Fazal, Satyajeet Dubey, and Amyra Dastoor by saying ” I also want to Thank you guys for this project you have, really made a difference to this movie.”
Jackie Shroff on reuniting with Maisha Koirala and Sanjay Dutt Spoke that, “I felt really happy and it was a very amazing experience. We three have a very deep bond, so whenever we meet we feel the same happiness in our hearts.”
Chunky Pandey spoke about his look and character in the movie, “I am the only person wearing Suits in the movie. I also used to wear glasses to hide my look for Prassthanam.”
Explore the trendy, timeless and alluring designs of Wooden home temple
‘Ganpati Bappa Morya’ – The chant that fills millions of people with the intense excitement, immense love and immutable belief for a festival that binds every Indian together, ‘Ganesh Chathurthi’.
Colorful beautiful idols of Ganesha, the loud sound of ‘dhol’ and the endless messages of ‘Ganesh Chaturthi Chya Hardik Subhecha’, – we Indians believe in ‘Go grand or Go home’ when it comes to celebrating this exhilarating festival.
Are you ready for this 9 days massive celebration?
If you are all set to bring Lord Ganesha into your abode, then it is the right time to indulge in the exhilarating festival with a beautiful home temple.
A perfect home temple will provide a beautiful home to your Lord Ganesha and also keep all the pooja essentials.
Whether a shelf design, drawer style or a wall-mounted design, there are many ways in which you can create a special zone in the abode exclusively for worship.
Lokendra Ranawat, Founder & CEO, WoodenStreet list all-comprehensive list of gorgeous, ‘pure and simple’ designs available online for your home. 1. Free-standing wooden temple with doors and shelves:
Say your prayers while seating comfortably! With the elegant lattice or traditional pattern carving on the door opening up to a simple shelving structure for the idols to be properly placed, this temple magnificently flaunts beauteous designing with thoughtful features.
Raised above the ground with the low-heightened stool with an extra drawer and a plate to keep the incense stick stand or an earthen lamp. It will offer you enough space to make delightful modak offering to your Lord Ganesha perfectly. 2. Surface-mounted home temple with ample storage drawers:
Bid adieu to storage woes! Go for this home temple design if you don’t wish to get up in the middle of the Ganpati’s aarti to get extra camphor from the kitchen.
This design includes ample storage drawers which are spacious enough to store everything to anything related to pooja essentials.
The gracefully styled, lattice-carved doors crowned with the tower-like structure on the top of the entire structure, gives a mini-mandir version for your abode.
This Ganesh Chaturthi, let your Ganesha enjoy all the sweet modak dishes and relaxing time, while you praise him inside this home mandir. 3. Traditional Wall-mounted Home Temple:
Wrapped in the absolute gorgeousness of the beguiling Indian culture with a twist of urban needs, this design is best-suited if floor space is ‘special’ for you.
Affixed on the wall to leave the floor space for either decoration purpose or other purposes, this design will serve the best for the urban apartments.
Still finding the best part? Well, it comes with drawers to keep all the curios inside it systematically and a sleek surface to keep the incense stick stand and offerings to God. And, for a Ganesh Chaturthi festive appeal opt for a design with carved design or a tower-like structure with intertwined motif enlightening the overall charm. 4. Eclectic Wall-mounted Home Temple:
The best of both worlds – Contemporary and Traditional! Carving a niche in the best designs of the mandir, this has a sleek, stylish appeal mingled seamlessly with sophisticated carvings.
The designs with sleek table-top with a backdrop of a gorgeously carved wooden panel, are the ones which will add a wow-factor to your home interiors this Ganesh Chaturthi. 5. Colourful wooden home temples:
Lively colours, capacious drawers, and a divine charisma, all in one package! Add greens and saffron to your home this Ganesh Chaturthi, this will attract positivity and prosperity to your abode.
Go for the ones with golden emboss paintwork and glittering gold-painted tower-like structure on the top, this will make the interiors look even more unique and timeless.
Let’s gift Lord Ganesha, a fancy home for himself this Ganesh Chaturthi.
Happy Ganesh Chaturthi -Ganpati Bappa Morya!
COURTESY-Wooden Street
History has witnessed certain great stories and one such story is that of Mihr-un-Nisa’s love story. Her entire life and her love for the emperor Jehangir finds a special place in our history. Lovingly and aplty called ‘Nur Mahal”( Light of the palace) , she epitomized grace , beauty , generosity and intelligence. She was well educated and held a deep respect for culture.
Keeping in mind the ethos of the event Designer Asha & Gautam Gupta in collaboration with Guru Padamshri Shovana Narayan, unveil their new collection NUR JAHAN, Collection with timeless Indian handicrafts. Through their collection they pay homage to this remarkable woman.
Inspiration
Nurjahan, her beauty, her love for fashion and jewelry, art, dance and music and above all her kindness. Music, jewelry, florals, their wedding and its celebration are illustrated and then woven to narrate her story.
Details
Rich textiles such as paithani, bandhani, banarasi silk, tissue, kota, organza and patloa are used to give the collection royal feel.
Vintage zardosi embroidery is used with pearls, ari, resham
Shade Card
Bright rose, tomato red, radiant yellow, garden green, beetroot purple, hot red, rice gold to coriander brown
When it’s time to reconnect with your loved one, there’s no better place than with the magic of one of Dubai’s luxury resorts, Atlantis, The Palm. Renowned as one of the most luxurious hotels on The Palm, Atlantis, The Palm is always prepared to make the holidays that you spend with your loved ones special.
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Dine Under the Sea with Your Beloved
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