430 17With the onset of winter festivities Stylist Anuj Lalwani hosted a scintillating Christmas cum pre New Year’s Bash in black & red . The cities glitterati gathered  raised a toast to bid adieu to 2016 and usher in 2017 with a bang.

Seen at the celebrations were Fashion Designers Shalini Chauhan, Sonia Jetleey, Rajdeep Ranawat, Chhaya Mehrotra, Amit Talwar, Swati Mehrotra, Akassh Aggarwal, Anushka Laul; Socialites Rochikaa Agarwal, Shilpa Raina Wahal, Archana Jain, Raveena Julka Verma, Neekita Singh; Make –up Expert Sylvie Rodgers; Stylist Harsh Khullar; MTV Famed Mia Lakra; Tarot Expert Poonam Sethi; Models Ashutosh Malik; Entrepreneurs Nikhiel Kumar, Manuj Sharma, Sunil Verma, Pavan Suri & Lalit Khannawlia amongst many others.

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The Body Shop India has partnered with WWF-India, to support its initiatives for the protection of endangered wildlife and its habitat across the country. During the campaign for every purchase customer will be asked to add Rs.10 to their bills, the proceeds from this joint initiative will go towards the protection of species such as the Bengal tiger, Asian elephant, snow leopard and the red panda, among many others. WWF-India addresses species conservation through field-level activities in landscapes across India, working with local communities, NGOs and government agencies including the state forest departments to address such threats as poaching, human-wildlife conflict, trade in wildlife parts, habitat destruction and legal support.

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The partnership with WWF-India is an extension of the larger Christmas campaign being run by The Body Shop under its global Bio-Bridges programme says the brand. The campaign globally will encourage shoppers to buy specially selected gifts, the proceeds of which will go towards helping protect endangered animals in Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia.

Fashion in Film festival will celebrate its 10th Anniversary with the most ambitious festival entitled Wearing Time: Past, Present, Future, Dream, curated by the festival’s director Marketa Uhlirova and eminent cinema and media scholar Tom Gunning.

The festival will launch in March 2017 across major London venues including The Barbican, Curzon cinemas, Central Saint Martins, Rio, Prince Charles Cinema, Picturehouse Cinema, The Horse Hospital and The Hoxton.

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The season asks what concrete manifestations of time fashion and clothing enable: what kind of chronologies and histories? What origins and memories? Echoes and shadows? Projections, visions or premonitions? Fashion’s own relation to time may be vital and intimate, but it is far from transparent. Film, the art of time passing, helps illuminate some of its complexities.

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However the Copenhagen fashion film festival dates have been changed. The festival will now take place from 18-29th of April 2017.

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Year 2016, saw a major slump in businesses of many, luxury fashion brands too experienced slow growth, with 2017 just round the corner, everybody’s hope has inflated expectant of a better business environment and a pickup in sales in the coming year.

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A joint report by McKinsey and Business of Fashion, says that the shocks in the global economy caused by the volatility of the Chinese Stock market, terrorist attacks in France, the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom have made 2016 tough for the industry.

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The report entitled, ‘The State of Fashion,’ states that the industry which has grown at 5.5 per cent annually, has witnessed consumers being more demanding, more discerning, and less predictable in their purchasing behaviour. It says that these changes are influenced by new technologies and have impacted its growth.

In spite of the uncertainties, findings by McKinsey shows that fashion companies are hopeful they can improve their performance through a combination of organic growth and leveraging new technologies.

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According to the report, successful companies will invest more to nurture local clientele and 2017 will be the year of organic growth by deepening relationships with existing clients, rather than through geographic, channel, and store-network expansion.

It adds, “And digital innovation will go behind the scenes: digitisation will be the key to supply-chain efficiency, lowering procurement costs, and the enhancement of sourcing opportunities. Some 40 per cent of executives we interviewed expect conditions for the fashion industry to improve in 2017, compared with the 19 per cent who reported improving conditions in 2016.

It says, “Athletic wear is set to become the absolute category champion, maintaining 6.5 to 7.5 per cent sales growth, although it will be unable to reproduce the double-digit growth of the past. The affordable luxury segment seems likely to continue benefiting from consumers trading down from luxury, while signs point to the continued growth of the value segment as large global players expand internationally.

“They should bear in mind the three trends that we believe will shape the 2017 fashion industry: the global economy, consumer behaviour, and the fashion business model.

The gorgeous Tamannaah Bhatia was spotted in a Tommy Hilfiger Fall Winter 2016 printed silk runway dress for the promotions of her upcoming film Okkadochadu in Hyderabad.

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The sizzling new edition of Kingfisher Calendar 2017, is shot across spectacular locations in Greece, and features gorgeous models- Alliny Gomes, Dayana Erappa, Kanishtha Dhankhar, Meenakshi Rathore, Nora Fatehi and Vartika Singh.

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The models have been styled by Allia El Rufai, make-up was done by Kapil Bhalla, hairstyling by Marianna Mukuchyan and photographed by none other than Atul Kasbekar.

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