December 2010 - Page 7 of 19

Bringing a superior jewellery shopping experience with the finest jewellery collection, Tara Jewellers, the retail arm of Tara Jewels Limited, launched their flagship store over cocktails and hors de oeuvre at Queens Palace, Waterfield Road, Bandra in Mumbai.

Showcasing an assortment of 20,000 exquisitely crafted designs subtly blended with the best quality diamonds and sprawling across 1200 square feet, the store gives its clients a truly innovative shopping experience. The design affords customers the opportunity to get up close and personal with the pieces that are showcased on the gallery wall and an ‘open’ workshop allows a ‘behind the scenes’ peek of Tara’s craftsmanship.

Hosted by Rajeev Seth, Chairman & Managing Director of Tara Jewels Ltd. and Vikram Raizada, Executive Director of Marketing, India Retail and Business Development at Tara Jewels Ltd, the glittering evening saw the who’s who of the city making to the venue. The likes of Rajesh Pratap Singh, Neeta Lulla, Narendra Kumar, Alex Kuruvilla, Babita malkhani, Anil & Sabina Chopra, Nachiket Barve, Ash chandler & Junelia Aguiar, Siddharth kannan, TC Therone, Umesh Jivnani and many more came to congratulate the hosts.

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A Potion to Poison, an Apple to Bite, A Spell to Cast…Don’t You Love It? A Crystal Ball of Colour Created from Our Favourite Venomous Villains, Vis-À-Vis the Three Most Infamous Frosty, Fabulous and Fatale of Disney’s Dark Ladies…And One Dastardly Dr. Facilier.

This is a M.A.C collaboration to celebrate the Sorcerer in every one of us, in a glamorous sort of way. Who’s The Fairest One of All? Four separate mini-collections, In Haute Carton Couture. The incomparable Cruella De Vil and Snow White’s Evil Queen, each featured on one ultra primary displayer; Sleeping Beauty’s Maleficent and The Princess and the Frog’s Dr. Facilier, both up to no good on their own. Iconic packaging collectors will kill for, cunning characters and bedeviled beauties that are so alluring; you can’t help but wonder what it would be like to be one.

The cruella line has a set frost, velux pearl and matte eye shadow, crème sheen and amplified lipstick, nude with gold pearl and deep fuchsia with pink pearl lip glass, Powder Blush, Beauty Powder and Penultimate Eye Liner. The Evil Queen hoards Eye Shadow in Light violet, Bronze burgundy and Deep dirty blue purple, Lipstick in Tale Bright coral and Soft brown plum, Lipglass in Soft coral pink and Deep raspberry with pink pearl, Powder Blush in Apple Soft coral pink and Beauty Powder. Maleficent has Mineralize Eye Shadow, clean violet purple and Burgundy plum Lipstick, Beauty Powder and Nail Lacquer. Dr. Facilier has Magically Cool Liquid Powder, Lipgelée, Greasepaint Stick and Pigment.

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Kimaya Bangalore, spread over an area of 8800 sq.ft, is organizing Nature of the Event -Trunk Show for designers that are currently not part of the designer board of Kimaya.

Kimaya with a reputation in the niche luxury market believes this will be a true platform for designers to build their brand image, maximize sales and will help expose brand and products to the luxury market customer and the crème de la crème of Bangalore.Kimaya Boulevard is being held at a time when the festive spirits are high and people are out to shop and we are making full use of this time of the year in order to help our Designers.

This trunk show is conceptualized in such a way that Kimaya makes available a platform to the designers that they currently don’t work with, to showcase, sell and promote their collection. Kimaya having a niche set of clientele would be a perfect venue for one to gain access to the creme de la creme of the city as well as feedback on the sensibility of the city. Based on the response, Kimaya will look at adding the new designer’s collection to its plethora of 150 designers across 16 stores in the country.

Designers who have confirmed for the show include Namrata G – Clothing – Line is called NAM G, Anita Lunia- Jewellery, Satkrit Krishna- CFW designer with an eclectic collection, Shiralee – Bangalore based designer with a studio S, Amita Sharma – Banglore based designer who was part of BFW, Shashi Singh, Yasin Sharif – Bangalore based designer specialising in cocktail dresses, Azad Sait – Anchal’s a store run by him, Ramya – Girimaji – Young vivacious designer with a very interesting collection of clothes and Illumination chic – Life style gifting products

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It’s called the Futurefolk, that Ritesh Kumar has sketched for the Spring/ Summer 2011 for Ridzyn.

Futurefolk looks towards the native and indigenous for inspiration. Folk techniques like ombre dyeing, tie-dye and mirror work have been looked into for a contemporary wardrobe. The brand retains the futuristic sensibility and directional approach for complete resort day and evening wear solutions.

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Blending Indian weaves into contemporary fashion, designers will come together to showcase their collections at the Handloom Week, 2010, that is slated to begin on December 21, 2010 at Dilli Haat, New Delhi. An initiative undertaken by the Ministry of Textiles and the Office of Development Commissioner Handlooms, FDCI is supporting the Handloom Week and the fashion show which depicts Indian culture, crafts and handloom that constitutes the bedrock of India’s heritage.

Some FDCI designers, namely Payal Jain, Anju Modi and Rajesh Pratap Singh will showcase their exclusive range of innovative and contemporary handloom collections. Sunil Sethi, President, FDCI said, “The Handloom Sector is the second largest provider of employment in India. I am delighted that FDCI’S designers are partnering with such an initiative promoted by the Ministry of Textiles and the Office of Development Commissioner Handlooms. We would like to encourage all our designers to take advantage of the handloom week and engage with Master Craftsmen and weavers and blend these craft traditions into contemporary designs for the domestic and international market. I would once again like to congratulate the Ministry of Textiles and the Office of Development Commissioner of Handlooms for the pioneering endeavor.’

The Fashion Show will primarily display new and modern designs in sarees and the finely tailored garments. In addition to being a unique opportunity for exhibiting the beautiful Handloom collection, the event promises to attract the attention of designers, retailers and wholesalers who are looking to source the Handloom products for the high-end market.

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Anita Dongre announced the opening of her new flagship store at Linking Road, Bandra. This splendid store of approx. 4,000 square feet plays host to Anita’s signature labels – Anita Dongre – Timeless, Anita Dongre – Iinterpret and Grassroot along with her two most popular high street fashion brands – And & Global Desi, making it an exciting shopping destination.

Anita Dongre says, “This is a truly special store for me as it brings all my labels under one roof and all my clients are delighted to be able to shop at this unique beautiful space.”

With having three distinct brands under one roof, Anita construes the current trend for mixing generes; juxtapose items in various price points. This store reflects the spirit of change, the spirit of Bandra which is hip, young and urban and offers a mix of the designers own signature labels to well priced popular high street labels truly making it a fashionistas delight. Through this store Anita aims, to make fashion accessible for women from all walks of life from high end luxury spenders to high street fashion seekers this store has it all.

The focal point of the store is the courtyard, which resembles the traditional patio of the old homes, interweaves all the three stores together. The courtyard leads you towards a cozy café with lush green plants and offers a sneak peak of all the stores while one chills on the chair sipping a hot cup of coffee. Also, the special attraction which makes the entrance of the store unique and differentiates it from others is water body specially created on the right hand side near the display window.

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The fashion showing by Global Fashion Labels brought to India by Kitsch, a tribute to Alexander McQueen, and Spring – Summer 2011 collections of Stella McCartney, Elise Overland, Alice & Olivia and Herve Leger was recently organized at the Garden of Five Senses, New Delhi.

The fashion extravaganza wowed the Capital with floating fashion and memories to create an exuberant experience by the collective showing of such big names under a roof.

The fashion showing saw the likes of Bobby Deol, Kulraj Randhawa, Tina Chatwal, Priya Sachdeva, Designer Alisha, models Carol Gracias, Binal Trivedi, Bhavana sharma and many more.

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If you care to join the bandwagon of Hollywood divas like Halle Berry, Julianne Moore, Katie Holmes, Nicole Kidman or Jessica Alba, then sporting an iconic D-bag can get you close! Bringing home a dash of class and style to the Indian accessory sector, Tod’s, the Italian luxury brand showcased its latest collection of bags at an exclusive preview at Delhi and Mumbai. (Harper’s Bazaar India played the co-host for this initiative.).

What is interesting about this new line from Tod’s is the mix and match of the classic and the casual. While one can opt for the pure Italian leather luxury D-bag in beige, fawn, rust, tan, dark brown and other earthy tones that are ideal for the working woman during the day, the see-through G-bags or the Gummy bags in fun neon colours of turquoise blue and ruby pink, are more for the holiday season. There is also another option in the form of ‘shirt bags’ that can go very well with casual wear. The best part is, though apparently simple looking, these handbags are beautifully handcrafted with great precision and detailing both from the outside and inside of the bags. While one can pick up the Gummy bags for Rs.31,000 the luxury D-bags are priced at 2, 12,000 and can be customised on request.While D-Styling Luxury is available on order in India, only 22 pieces of the Limited Edition Gummy Bag are up for grabs.

The unique pool-side brunch at Aman Delhi witnessed the likes of Suneet Verma, Rakesh Thakore, Aparna Chandra, Leena Singh, JJ Valaya, Jas Arora, Kajal Aijaz, Feroze Gujral, Namrata Joshipura, Rima Mehra, Vidushi Mehra, Shabnam Singhal, Tanisha Mohan, Sheena Sharma, Samantha Kochhar, Siddartha Tytler, Pushpanjali Sharma, Vikram Baidyanath, Mohammad Azharuddin and Simar Duggal while the Mumbai event was spiced up further with a breezy evening cocktail party that had eminent guests trickling in like Atul Kasbekar, Anil Chopra, Ravi Krishnan, Nachiket Barve, Rahul Khanna, Narendra Kumar Ahmed, Devieka and Suresh Bhojwani, Aarti Surendranath, Ash Chandler and Genelia, Remu and Naaz Zaveri to mention a few.

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The king of good times, Dr Vijay Mallya celebrated his 54th birthday in style throwing open the doors of his plush bungalow – Niladri at Napean Sea road in South Mumbai . It turned out to be a double celebration as the man chose to unveil the Kingfisher Calendar 2011 at this occasion along with his good friend Salman Khan, in the presence of the creme de la creme from around town.

Keeping to the white dress code, the who’s who basked at this gala Saturday brunch enjoying the bar-b-que and beer, while Cyrus Broacha entertained the guests with his wacky sense of humour. Letting their hair down, among the elite crowd were spotted Deepika Padukone, Sobha De, Milind Soman, Sophie Choudry, Narendra Kumar, R. Madhavan, Sameera Reddy, Prahlad Kakkar, Gautam Singhania and the list goes on.

The larger than life, blown- up pages from this glamorous calendar formed the ideal back drop for the party. Last year it was in a unique black-n-white avtar, while this year the colours of nature rule the Kingfisher Calendar 2011. And what more to expect from this latest version?

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Monthly Archives: December 2010

Clinking Diamonds

Venomous Villains

The Boulevard

Ridzyn SS 2011

Handloom Week 2010

Anita Dongre

Fashion Showing by Kitsch

Tod

The Kingfisher Calendar