Monthly Archives: January 2010

Jashn Collection

Fashion brand, Jashn, exposes an exclusive calendar featuring its brand ambassador Celina Jaitly dressed in Jashn’s 2010 designer collection of Sarees at the Hotel Le Royal Meridian, Mumbai. The calendar shoots on the location of Le Royal Meridian, commemorating Jashn’s tribute to the Indian Fashionista, in touch with the classic and contemporary at the same time.
 
Celina Jaitly has been captured within the twelve months frames in eye turning sarees created by the Jashn design team as part of Collection Y2K10. Every creation creates a heady fusion of fabrics like velvet and brasso, tussar, tissue, brocade and georgette shimmer blending with crepes and prints, bold borders in appliqué motifs with zari highlights. There Parsi floral runners, embroidered highlights and exquisite cutwork lace-to suit the classic sophistication. The colour palette is rich and bold, ranging from deep blue and cobalt to emerald green and vermillion, rust and ochre, maroon and crimson, burgundy and sea green.
 
C.K. Jashnani, Chairman Jashn says ”Fashion aficionados get a chance to select from the best warps, weaves and wefts that India has to offer, for Jashn, while being abreast with the latest fashion trends, is conscious to preserve ethnic craft traditions and showcase them in their collections. Thus you will see a Jamawar rubbing shoulders with traditional Parsi borders, a kalamkari befriending a traditional tanchoi…even as a modern collection in prints, sequins and Swarovski with velvet appliqué and brasso highlights awaits the young ladies who wish to create a style statement wherever they go.”

Launch Party of Asia 7

The second stand alone restaurant of Asia 7 at Clarion Hotel Collection, New Delhi announced it’s launch over a glitzy and high glam party, following its great success in Ambience Mall, Gurgaon. The hosts yet again boast of Asia 7’s commitment to continue its philosophy of “Great taste is Universal”. The restaurant combines this with a unique, modern, elegant and stylized dining atmosphere. 
 
 Sprawling over an extensive space of 2275 sq ft of closed area, which includes the sophisticated kitchen area of another 975 sq ft, Asia 7, Clarion offers a mix of serenity and celebration with the advantage of a great location in the heart of South Delhi. Apart from this the restaurant opens its doors to an interesting outdoor space which is approximately 550 sq ft of open terrace. The total seating capacity of the restaurant is one hundred and thirty eight covers. The restaurant is divided into four different zones inspired from Bali, Japan Thailand & Korea. 
 
The eminent guest list that poured in to celebrate and indulge in exquisite food and fine dine experience included Tanisha Mohan, Ravi Bajaj, Suneet Varma, Sanjay Kapoor, Kalyani Chawla, Atul Wasan, Vijay Arora, Rohit Gandhi, Rahul Khanna, Chetan Seth, Amisha Seth, Sangeeta Bijlani, Shweta Nanda, A D Singh, Riddhima Kapoor, Bharat Sahni and many more.

Fashion evolves with Surekha

It was an afternoon hosted at the Surekha Jain store, Emporio to celebrate the presence of Cherie Blair and Lady Blair amidst a stunning collection showcase of Fall Winter 09/10. The couture designer Surekha’s design speaks with skillful combination of global chic with the great Indian treasure trove of embroidery and textures. 
 
On the occasion Surekha said, “Cherie has always been encouraging and appreciating my designs and it feels great to have her among us today. It’s an honour for me to design for them and I hope they keep visiting us more often.” 
 
Her design aesthetics supersedes from an era where the form and fit reflect the western silhouettes, Surekha Jain returns to her roots, designing dream collections that brews with perfection into eastern mystique and western cutting edge living. She had been designing in the international fashion market and has divulged in India just six months ago at Emporio. A self taught designer she has always been associated with created for some of the most elusive and luxury labels of international acclaim.
 
On the occasion, the designer also announced the launch of a very innovative and new line Tomasz-Surekha label, which is a creative coming together of two worlds as Tomasz Starzweski couturiers of Europe and UK. Surekha exclaimed, “A personal high for me was the joining hands with one of Europe’s most well known designers”

 

Morgan

This 13th January the crème de la crème of Delhi gathered at the PVR Select City to celebrate the premiere the comedy outburst movie “Did you hear about the Morgans?” starring Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker by Sony Pictures. 
The comedy follows a highly successful Manhattan couple, Paul and Meryl Morgan (Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker), whose almost-perfect lives have only one notable failure, their dissolving marriage. But the turmoil of their romantic lives is nothing compared to what they are about to experience as they witness a murder and become targets of a contract killer. The Feds, protecting their witnesses, whisk away the Morgans from their beloved New York to a tiny town in Wyoming, and a relationship that was on the rocks threatens to end completely in the Rockies, unless, in their new BlackBerry-free lives, the Morgans can slow down the pace and rekindle the passion. 
The guests that floated in to catch the premiere show included Sumeet Nair and Geetanjali Kashyap, Shaleen Jain, Nitin Bal Chauhan, Ambika Pillai, Tanisha Mohan, Ramola Bachchan, Mayhar Bhasin, Shefali Talwar, Laxmi Rana, Sonalika Sahay, Nitin Bikchandani from Sony Pictures, Manju & Bobby Grover, Bharti Bhalla and many more.

Taj Krishna

Savour exotic Steaks n Grills that continue thru the nice winter evenings at the Al fresco throughout january…

Taj Deccan

On popular demand, the best lunch in town has evolved in a new avtaar at Arena. This time we introduce unlimited kebabs, grills & smoothies. And much much more entire January…

Nakul Sen

Nakul Sen, a designer who sees fashion beyond the clothes. He personifies a person completely in love with art, music, food, traveling and much more minor idiosyncrasies of life than the cocktail gowns he has been designing since 1997. His label, which is visible in 78 boutiques across the world came to India in 2006, is dedicated to designing exquisite evening wear and jewels. He had started his career as a sales boy in a Benetton store at a young age of seventeen and is a designer who went international before becoming national.

Back in 1995, Nakul was designing costumes for theatres in New York where he gradually fell in love with garments and landed up becoming a fashion designer. Ask Nakul about his design inspirations and he lightheartedly jokes, “its money that inspires me to keep doing fashion. Don’t you think that you are more comfortable in your basic pair of denims and casual cotton tees, go and try one of the designer outfits and you won’t feel the same.”

Nakul Sen Inc. puts forward the statement by giving designs a contemp -orary twist to the Indian craftsmanship but with an appeal to the international tastes and has its offices in Milan, London, and Barcelona. With an active participation in prestigious exhibition in Madrid and Paris, the brand has been featured in abounding publications like French Marie Clare, Italian Official, French Gala, Playboy,etc not to forget the Tyra Bank show in 1997, New York, featuring America’s 10 super models which leaped Nakul Sen from behind the scene to the streets of New York Fashion world. “It is the most memorable moment of my life when fourteen big hoardings flashed all over the New York city, of supermodels wearing my creations”, ponders Nakul.

Nakul together with wife Christina Chingakham has recently launched O Palacio, an amalgamation of their passion and interests that unites fashion art and food in Delhi. The canopy also brings the first Portuguese restaurant in the city. Nakul and Christina who have always been drawn to quaint little towns, stand in the middle of the road to hear a melodious tunes coming from a far end corner. They enjoyed a eating out in simple authentic food hubs while deciding to design a place that would make them feel at home away from the uptight fashion world. He says, “Tina and I find fashion boring so we mixed it with things that we love like art, book reading, Spanish dances, music by Fado singers, play by Company theatre and the list is just too exhaustive”. He adds recalling, “O Palacio is also a pet friendly place so everyone can come in here carrying their adorable dogs and cats, but yes, you have to clean the poo that your little one creates.”

However the more he denounces the world of fashion, the industry clearly witnesses his design marvels, as his quirky costume designing in the Amitabh Bachchan starrer Aks. And his latest muse, jewellery, where he has designed an array of extremely stylish cocktail rings and neck pieces of precious colored stones.

 

You can get Nakul at :

O’Palacio

E-12/70,Hauzrani, Opp. DLF Place Mall,

Saket,New Delhi

www.nakulsen.com

Muse Against Domestic Violence

Muse hosted a very special and altered event that brought together the fashion world to support Breakthrough’s Bell Bajao campaign in Mumbai’s charming and trendy art district of Kala Ghoda. Bell Bajao calls on men and boys to take a stand against domestic violence. 
 
Three prominent male voices of the fashion fraternity, Aki Narula, Lecoanet Hemant and Narendra Kumar have designed bespoke items for Bell Bajao to lend their support to this cause. Lecoanet Hemant and Narendra Kumar showcased their collections of unisex t-shirts, while Aki Narula displayed a collection of tote bags. These exclusive pieces will be available at Muse throughout the month and will be then sold online via Breakthrough’s website. 
 
Tarini Jindal, owner of Muse, sees this event as a great opportunity to bring the fashion fraternity together, and extend her support to an organization that is close to her heart and family. Since the inception of Breakthrough, Ms. Sangita Jindal, a board member of Breakthrough, has been a supporter of its initiatives, and has worked relentlessly to raise awareness in mainstream audiences on their key causes. 
 
Tarini, Ms. Sangeeta Jindal, Mallika Dutt, Founder of Breakthrough welcomed  the who’s-who of the city’s stylish and chic folks that came to the event and lent their support to this most admirable cause over wine and finger foods. Those in attendance were Tarini’s sister, Tanvi, Devika Bhojwani, Akanksha Nanda, Sharmila Khanna, Sabina Chopra, Kadambari Lakhani, Pria Katari Puri, Vikram Raizada, Jamini Alhuwalia, Praveena & Jamal Mecklai, Naaz & Remu Javeri, Gaurav & Protima Bhatia, Natasha Poonawala, Vinod Advani, Red, Blue Yellow’s Karishma Bajaj, Asim Merchant & Paul Rodriguez, Arpana Sarup-Punjabi, Kishen Mulchandani, Sameer Sheth, Naintara, Nisha Jamval and Tara D’Souza, to name a few.