May 2014 - Page 15 of 18

Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual Costume Institute gala, ‘Met Gala 2014’ proved to be fashion’s most glamorous night and the fanciest red carpet of the year.

An event where celebrities dressed up artistically, Met Gala 2014 had the dress code of a white tie and clothes that were inspired by the revolutionary American designer, Charles James.

It also featured an army of heavy hitters in the fashion world, including Ralph Lauren, Donatella Versace, Mr. de la Renta and Raf Simons. With Michelle Obama cutting the ribbon, the event saw worldwide fashion eminences like Sarah Jessica Parker, Lupita Nyong’o, Kendall Jenner and Kate Upton to name a few.

Pop stars Fergie, Gwen Stefani and Shirley Manson, Heidi Klum, Alessandra Ambrosio, Angela Lindvall and Liberty Ross, came out Thursday night to celebrate Italian designer Fausto Puglisi, Emanuel Ungaro designs in NewYork.

The spring Ungaro collection, available now at Barneys, is an exuberant expression of polka dots and ruffles with pencil skirts, knitwear and crystal-encrusted bustier tops.

One of UK’s largest online fashion and beauty stores, ASOS launched its Student Brand Ambassador Project in Australia, in order to widen the scope and the know-how of the brand among students.

Purported to promote the brand online and on campus, ASOS will work twenty students who will be responsible for this task. As a part of its incentives, it offers the winning ambassador eight-week internship at the end of the program in three of ASOS’s global offices in London, New York and Sydney.

The students too look forward to the company’s incentives and express much enthusiasm and passion to create content and campaign for ASOS.

Recognizing the growing demand of shopping at the convenience of your home, Tarun Tahiliani launches its global e commerce site, taruntahiliani.com.

The Tarun Tahiliani Design Studio divides its offering into different categories like Ready-to-wear, Occasion wear and Couture. While a customer will have online accessibility to the latest SS14 ready-to-wear and occasion wear for both men and women; the bridal and couture collection will have a select showcase and the customers can engage in a dialogue and request for an appointment directly through the website.

The site promises of swift deliveries within 2 weeks both in India and internationally, depending on country of shipping and easy payment gateways.

This diversely talented designer seeks immense amount of keenness in textile designing and writing poetry. Additionally she belongs to the textile background from Banaras and graduated in Textile Designing from NIFT in 2003. She launched her eponymous label in 2003, a brand which believes in strong colour combination and using pure fabrics to create effortlessly stylish silhouettes in Contemporary Indian Wear with no compromise on fabric and finish.

Her earlier years include her designing on a small scale for her family business of home furnishings and Indian Wear. Following which she ran her own design studio, ‘Swechha’ in Varansi for four years and held several exhibitions there and in Lucknow and NCR. Besides, she also showcased her creations at an exhibition in FUEL.

Among her achievements, she had been a board member on the Advisory Committee to DC, Handlooms in 2006. Besides, she also possesses a vast experience in textile printing and was also a preliminary member of Fashion Design Council of India.

She marked the milestone of her career when she made a debut appearance in 2012 at the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week. Thereafter she showcased her collections at Spring Summer 2013 and Autumn Winter 2014 collections in the same platform.

You can get Chhaya Mehrotra at:

www.chhayamehrotra.com

On the Earth Day this year, the prestigious Fashion Institute of Technology celebrated the extraordinary and sustaining work of the Textile Development and Marketing seniors Caitlin Powell ’14, Amber Harkonen ’14, and Meghan Navoy ’14, on their concept for the FIT Rooftop Natural Dye Garden.

Underscoring the Institute’s commitment to sustainability, the proposal was selected for the 2014 Clinton Global Initiative University and addressed global challenges to sustainability. Furthermore, for an efficient growth of the project, the graduates of 2014 donated their respective 2014 FIT Class Gifts, as part of the I Chose FIT campaign.

Along with keeping up with FIT’s generosity, the garden will be the gift that keeps giving, where future generations of students will be able to gain hands-on learning as it also helps sustain the Earth.

This designer grew up making paper dolls with Origami and dressing them up with cut-outs. Navigated by the career choices of her father, she joined the National Institute of Fashion Technology. Under her eponymous label, she launched her prêt fashion studio titled ‘French Curve’ in 2005, which is replete of western wear, Indian traditional wear and bespoke bridal wear.

Before emerging as a self-styled designer, Anjali’s earlier years were spent as a faculty member in NIFT. Also, she gained her expertise and further refined her knowledge in designing as she worked with fashion labels like GAP, Banana Republic, Liz Clairborne, Debenhams, NEXY PCL and JouJou.

Speaking of her accomplishments as a designer, Anjali won awards like the YSL Young Designers Award and GJEPC Jewellery Awards. Besides, she has been a part of some efficient platforms like the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week and Kolkata Fashion Week among others, which helped her in gaining wide-scope popularity and getting her collection to the mainstream fashion world.

She retails her collection from her studio and various multi designer stores in Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Kolkata and Nagpur. Her online can be bought at scarletbindi.com.

You can get Anjali Sharma at:

www.thefrenchcurve.com

In the world of Cartier accessories, skins and leather are materials that must be experienced, seen and touched. The Cartier signature marks every object it chooses, thus affirming content and form, spirit and material.

Elegant and understated, the bags are of Fine Leather Goods and celebrate the luxury of connoisseurs, perfect for here or elsewhere, always in search of both distant horizons and refined finishes that create a signature allure.

The Jeanne Toussaint collection and the Louis Cartier collection, the feminine and masculine leather bags are the objects of style with crisp lines adorned with an infinite number of details.

In an attempt to explore the fluid collaborations in fashion, technology, art and science, POST matter organised a unique display of art-works titled ‘POST exhibition’ during the Milan Fashion Week at the Accademia di Brera, Milan. The exhibition was creatively divided into three parts, each possessing an interactive technology to create never-experienced-before effects and explore new relationships to digital content.

Speaking of the divisions of the exhibition, its first part, ‘Ripples’ used a tactile interface of fabric gave the sensation of physical touch to the clothing and images onscreen.

Meanwhile, the second part, ‘Echo’ was created using the experimental technology called ‘Leap Motion’. The interaction allowed the audience to split the films into fractured spirals which, which distorted and morphed with their hand gestures.

Whereas, the third part titled ‘Gravity’ was created using Kinetic motion sensors which were wired on the entire floor. It created a space where the audience could perform a digital dance with the screen.

Expanding and diversifying the various dimensions of art, the exclusive exhibition will continue to tour internationally in 2014.