Fashion is On

The 10th Lakme Fashion Week opened with the Barbie All Doll’d Up show, because the global fashion icon and every girl’s best friend turned 50 this year. Top Models like Indrani Dasgupta, Anastacia Durata, Montu Tomar and Diana Penty featured on the show. They wore shimmering short and frilly dresses in bright colours like pink, yellow and blue and sparkling gowns. Dazzling earring, necklaces, hats and bags also made an appearance on the ramp.

SHINING Star by Get Far opened the show. Barbie Girl by Aqua and Hot Stuff by the Pussycat Dolls were among the songs the models were seen strutting their stuff to. Their demeanour was very feminine and playful, just like Barbie’s and their bright smiles lit up the ramp. The make up was girly and pink. Marc and Waluscha Robinson’s blonde and blue-eyed daughter Coco Chanel dazzled on the ramp as the surprise package of the show. The audience hooted and clapped when the doll-like beauty walked in as I’m A Barbie Girl played in the background. She also made an appearance at the end of the show with her beautiful mother.

Katrina Kaif, dressed in a multicoloured short dress that was bright blue, yellow and pink, was the showstopper for designer Neeta Lulla’s daughter Nishka Lulla, who designed the pretty frock.

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Known for his flamboyant and futuristic designs and creative skills, designer Manish Arora feels that Indian designers are still confused between the modernization and the westernization of their garments, which in turn hampers their growth internationally.

“All Indian designers need to understand the fact that in order to excel in the international market, we all have to focus on the modernity of the garment and not on the Western look. This means that we have to take Western ideas and use Indian sensibilities to make it a global product,” Arora suggested while speaking at the International Herald Tribune Sustainable Luxury Summit here.

“Unfortunately most of the Indian designers are confused between these two different terms, which in turn affects their global presence,” he added.

The session, on “Building a global Indian Brand” also focused on the fact that collaborating with various brands also helps in creating an international brand image for a designer.

Arora has collaborated for the ‘Fish Fry’ brand with Reebok under which he has created women’s party wear shoes. Apart from this, he is associated with brands like cosmetics giant MAC, Walt Disney, Nivea and a few more.
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A not-so-new fashion trend is sweeping many parts of Australia, where thousands of people are flocking to vintage fairs to pick up unique, and inexpensive, apparel during the economic slowdown.

Museums and collectors have usually shown the most interest in vintage fashion in the past, along with brides-to-be and stylists, said Fiona Baverstock, who along with her husband Keith organizes some of Australia’s biggest vintage fashion fairs.

But now, a lot more people are buying quality, used clothes, shoes and accessories as the economic recession curtails spending, she added.

“I think people look for value when times are tough,” said Baverstock, organizer of The Way We Wear fashion fairs.

“And they know if they buy a nice 1930s piece it’s going to be well made with nice fabric and no one else is going to have one,” she told Reuters.

Australia moved a step closer to recession earlier this year when the economy posted its first contraction in eight years. The number of unemployed people has also increased, while full-time jobs dropped sharply.

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She has always been praised for her dedication, and  on March 26 Katie Holmes was spotted honing her craft at a studio in Santa Monica, California.

The “Mad Money” mommy looked to be in high spirits as she arrived to find plenty of paparazzi waiting to snap up her picture.

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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has yet again turned down the request to immortalise her as a Barbie Doll.
According to the reports, Aishwarya is busy with her professional commitments and has declined to oblige the global doll brand.

On the eve of the Barbie`s 50th Anniversary, Aishwarya is still the most sought after celebrity to be impersonated as a Barbie. Mattel was also keen to have her walk the ramp on lakme Fashion Week ‘Barbie dolled up’ in a winning design as Single Likeness Barbie, which would be unveiled and auctioned for a charity of her choice.

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There could not have been a better opening of the Fall/Winter 2009 Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) than the spectacular “Barbie All Doll’d Up” show that rocked the ramp.

It was a perfect combination of style and glamour as 50 years of Barbie was celebrated along with Lakme Fashion Week, the pioneers of the fashion weeks in India having completed a decade.

Dress the Barbie contest attracted 75 entries from top designers in the country from which the 20 short listed creations were showcased on the ramp at the dazzling show.

It was the winning dress by Nishka Lulla that Bollywood’s glamorous star Katrina Kaif modeled as the show stopper of the day. Katrina Kaif will be the Indian celebrity on whose likeness a Barbie doll will be created by Mattel Toys India Pvt. Ltd.

The Ballroom of the Grand Hyatt Hotel, Mumbai with the extra long ramp was dressed in hundreds of metres of the characteristic Barbie pink silk with the famed Barbie logo all around. The venue almost resembled Barbie’s pretty house and it was a place where a girl of any age would have loved to be.

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From shrinking their collections to slashing prices, Indian fashion designers are trying to cope with the global financial crisis, which has dimmed the appetite for haute couture internationally and at home.

The economic meltdown was a recurring theme at this month’s Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week, one of two premier fashion events that ran concurrently in New Delhi. A third major event, the Lakme Fashion Week, kicks off in Mumbai.

“The whole world is going on sale right now,” said designer Nitin Bal Chauhan, who has lowered his prices and cut up to 40 percent of his profit margin.

“As a designer, I think I should be more considerate and cut down on my profit margin and still make sure people can enjoy fashion,” Chauhan said.

Other designers have cut back on production volumes, hit by growing evidence of restrained spending for clothes and accessories among well-heeled clients.

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Japanese fashion designer Kenzo Takada will auction off some of the art that inspired his East-meets-West style, as he trades his plush Paris mansion for smaller digs on the Seine River.

From Hopi Kachina dolls to bronze Buddhas, more than 1,000 pieces acquired over the past two decades will be on the block at the June 16-17 sale organized by Aguttes auction house, the designer and his auctioneer said.

The catalog isn’t finished yet because Kenzo is hesitating about which objects to keep.

But most of the collection will have to go. Kenzo has sold the 12,000-square-foot (1,100-square-meter) Japanese-style wooden house that he built in 1987 in the courtyard of an apartment building near Paris’ Place de la Bastille, and will move into a Left Bank apartment about one-quarter that size this summer.

“After 20 years in this house, I wanted to turn the page and live lighter,” Kenzo told The Associated Press in an interview after a guided visit through the sprawling house. “For parties, it was great, but sometimes when I’m here alone, it’s far too big.”

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dmg world media announced that the third annual New York Antique Jewelry & Watch Show will take place July 24-27, 2009 at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City.

This four-day show, opening two days prior to the JA New York Summer Show, will bring together more than 100 of the finest antique jewelry dealers in the United States, Canada, South and Central America, Europe and Asia. Buyers from around the globe, including many celebrities and well-known socialites, will be in attendance. Show attendees will be able to view and purchase spectacular antique jewelry, rare jewels and gemstones, unique designer pieces, as well as the finest in personal timepieces.

The exhibitors, some of whom are among the best-known in the jewelry business, will have an amazing variety on display. Intriguing and rare antique pieces range from Castellani and Guiliano, to 19th and 20th century masters, such as Louis Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Tiffany and Harry Winston.

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Spring is in the air and that means it’s all change in the beauty world. Gone are the dark eyes and berry shades of winter, and in their places are a whole of host of fresh new hair and make-up trends to try. The spring/summer 2009 shows were a thing of contrast.

Prada spring/summer 2009

Chloé spring/summer 2009

Gucci spring/summer 2009

Anna Sui spring/summer 2009

Dolce & Gabbana spring/summer 2009

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Textured curls are still the hair trend du jour. But don’t be mistaken—that 1980s perm is still best kept in the past. “Perms have not improved much since then,” says celebrity hair colorist Rita Hazan. “We still have the same issues; too much damage and no longevity.” Besides, according to Hazan and fellow stylist Ursula Stephen, those tight, chemically-induced coils are no longer popular.

“A looser wave is more in style,” says Stephen, Rihanna’s go-to coiffeur. “I haven’t done a perm in so long. A lot of people aren’t really getting them any more.” Instead, Stephen and Hazan recommend using a curling- or flat-iron to achieve natural-looking waves like those seen at the Ralph Lauren spring 2009 show.

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