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The beautiful American actress Amanda Seyfried recently attended the global press announcement of the Japanese cosmetics, skincare and fragrance manufacturer clé de peau BEAUTÉ, in Tokyo.

Extremely fond of Japanese culture and traditions, the actress,who is a regular user of the brand’s beauty products launched the latest beauty products of clé de peau BEAUTÉ, which included the colour-make up and the skin enhancing base-makeup. Both the products have been created in a fashion that highlights the dramatic eyes and focuses on the skin as the leading priority.

Amanda, likes to stay very physically active and drinks a lot of water, had her look made up with clé de peau BEAUTÉ’s eyeshadow and the new foundation. I think it helped me enhance the charm of mature woman. I love it.

Designer Surily Goel curates a fresh capsule collection which will be on display on the upcoming Caravan 2014 exhibition. The event will be a two months long display of luxury and lifestyle featuring the ace Indian designers, ethnic and royal jewellery and home décor.

Speaking of the designer’s creations, the garments are extremely versatile, replete of vibrant colour combinations with an added tinge of metallic touch. Dominated by full length glamorous gowns, the collection focuses on immense detailing, embellishments and sequined stones.

With the rich fabrics, complementing silhouettes and sensual appeal, Surily’s collection is surely to leave the visitors with wide-opened sparkling eyes!

Designer Joseph Altuzarra was graced with the Womenswear Designer of the Year at the Council of Fashion Designers of America, for his mere six years old eponymous label. Beating the giants of the fashion world like Marc Jacobs and Alexander Wang, Altuzarra won the highest honour award and his second recognition by CFDA, after his Emerging Womenswear Designer Award in 2012.

Among the other honourees at the award ceremony, singer Rihanna won the Style Icon of the Year award, Tom Ford won the Lifetime Achievement Award and Raf Simons was graced by the International Award for his work at Christian Dior. Among the emerging designers category titled as the ‘Swarovski Awards’, Shane Gabier and Christopher Peters of Creatures of the Wind won for womenswear, Todd Snyder for menswear and jewellery designer Irene Neuwirth won for his exquisite accessories.

This Kolkata based designer is extremely fond of experimenting and giving an adventurous essence to her jewellery creations. She pursued a course in jewellery designing from the Singem Institute of Gemology, Kolkata, which generated the passion inside her to create exquisite accessories. Thereafter, in 2005 she launched her eclectic jewellery label ‘Joolz’, which focuses on jewellery that embodies freedom and confidence.

Speaking of Joolz, the designer draws a vast inspiration from nature and its attributes and the sobriety and simplicity that are associated with the diversity of cultures. The creations are replete of classy colour combinations and the use of precious and semi-precious stones which evolve with the changing seasons and fashion trends.

Moreover, the designer has displayed a remarkable amount of growth as a jewellery designer where she has held numerous exhibitions and shows in Kolkata, Delhi and other fashion hubs of the country. Her jewellery has received acclaim at a national level, where Bollywood actors like Kareena Kapoor and Rani Mukherjee have been spotted wearing her creations. She also been a part of major platforms like the Lakme Fashion Week, which has helped boost up her career and get her collections ahead in the mainstream fashion world.

She now successfully retails her collection through designer stores in Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, and Chennai among others.

Designer duo Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla curated a sixteen-piece collection for Caravan at Harvey Nicholas, Riyadh. The creations include both their individual couture wear as well as ‘Abu Sandeep’ diffusion label.

The collection is replete of some extravagant craftwork along with floral designs in silk thread embroidery and geometric art. The silhouettes have been created in a fashion which redefines one’s body language, complemented with embellishments which include gota rabadi, shabb sequins and many more. The voluminous skirts, kaftans, tailored front open sherwani jackets, and easy shirt-dresses and tunics have all been made in fabrics like georgettes and silks and are likely to cater to the needs of every formal occasion.

Meanwhile, the designer duo has also created an exquisite Abaya in Art Deco inspired applique which pays homage to the Middle East.

With designers Katie Hillier and Luella Bartley creating their first collection for Marc by Marc Jacobs, the resort 2015 collection for the brand is all about portraying the not so feminine and strong attributes in women.

Replete of floral dresses and flared skirts, the creations included ill fitted dresses, ranging from full sleeved jumpsuits, shirts paired with trousers, tunic styled dresses, and long shirts paired with capris trousers among others. Keeping away from the conventional feminine look of the ensembles, the silhouettes were kept cool and clean in fabrics like nylon and cotton. Embellishments were minimal, including sleek high waist belts, zippers and funky prints. Colour combinations were both loud and mild, ranging from dark grey with ivory blue to bright yellow with blue floral prints.

All in all, the collection was a sure short sway from the traditional styling of Marc Jacobs as a brand.

Someone who has been supporting and raising funds for amfAR for years, designer Jean Paul Gaultier designs a completely new line of a canvas tote handbag, in order to raise awareness and a sufficient amount of funds, appropriate for an extensive research for HIV/AIDS.

The bag features nautical-inspired design by Gaultier along with his signature on the front, and will be exclusively available at Bloomingdale’s. Also, Heidi Klum shows her willing support as she models for the bag, which will be featured in the Bloomingdales.

Meanwhile, the bag will be retailed at a selling price of $35, all of which will be donated for amfAR’s research programs.

Fashionably Connected is a networking platform created to connect professionals in the fashion community through panel discussions on, the impact of global fashion trends on the Indian fashion scenario.

Fashionably Connected will allow designers to meet with suppliers, fashion media with fashion brands, students with professionals, producers with customers regularly.

Hosted at The White Owl, the discussion had fashion designer Nachiket Barve, Aparna Badlani and Mehernaz Dhondy, in the presence of select group comprising movers and shakers of the fashion industry, which included Designers Mayank and Shraddha, Vito Dell’erba, Amith Dholakia, Radha Kapoor, Jasmine Sarupria, along with models and fashion media.

Ralph Lauren organised an individualistic display of customise bikes, vintage gas-station paraphernalia and a special ‘bike clinic’ on an event titled ‘RRL Riders Tour’ on the 2^nd of June, in collaboration with Paris garage Blitz Motorcycles. The event focussed on the Parisian branch of his Double RL & Co. brand, popularly known as Ralph Lauren RRL.

With a total of 200 motorbikes gathered at Boulevard Saint-Germain, the RRL Riders tour featured a dramatic tour of bikes dating from 1998. Accompanying them was an eventful country music performance by Fiona Culley.

Meanwhile, the Double RL brand has been enthralling the customers in France since 2010, with its vintage denim and casual wear, which have also been worn by Hollywood celebrities like Jean Dujardin and Johnny Depp.

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Monthly Archives: June 2014

Amanda Launch clé de peau BEAUTÉ

Surily Goel at Caravan 2014

Altuzarra as Designer of the Year

Priyamanjari Todi

Abu & Sandeep at Harvey Nichols

Marc Jacobs Resort ‘15

Gaultier Bags Benefitting amfAR

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