June 2014 - Page 16 of 17

Where Art Meets Business:

Atul & Gayatri Ruia played hosts to the opening of Art Guild House, at LBS Road, Kurla. Guests walked into the state of the art foyer that beautifully showcased artworks and installations, the first structure of its kind that serves as a commercial building and a gallery space.

At Art Guild House we would like to offer an unmatched ambience that seamlessly blends design & functionality with Art. We have commissioned some of the country’s best known names to create the first series of works of Jiten Thukral and Sumer Tagra, Shilpa Gupta, Narendra Yadav, Sunil Gawde, Justin Ponmany, curated by Usha Gawde, says Gayatri Ruia.

Seen enjoyed playing table tennis on the state of the art tables designed by Thukral & Tagra were Chhaya Momaya, Kunika Singh, Rouble Nagi, Aarti & Kailash Surendranath, Rashmi Nigam, ELina Meswani, Mayank Ruia as well artists who are a part of Art Guild House.

Lately Mumbai witnessed an explosion of fashion, film, femininity, as Mrs. Pamela Chopra and Ms. Sanya Dhir hosted the launch of the flagship store of DIVA’NI.

The soiree was a mega affair as it celebrated the homecoming of a fashion label exploded out of Indian cinema’s DNA. The gala launch was well attended by the who’s who of tinsel town Rani Mukerji, Parineeti Chopra , Alia Bhatt, Kiran Rao, Arjun Kapoor, Sushant Singh Rajput, Ankita Lokhande, Poonam Dhillon to name a few.

For Resort 2015, Giorgio Armani kept it simple and sober. With a very mild colour range flowing between the likes of different shades of white, fawn and grey, the collection gave a prior focus to formal wear.

Keeping the ensembles not completely stuck to the skin, the comfort factor was given due weightage. The collection flew between traces of both masculine and feminine, including both a sleek white suit paired with trousers and an elegant fawn spaghetti top paired with a short skirt, and a clutch accessorising the look.

However, the full sleeved crème coloured short dress, with a frilled bottom enhanced with minimalistic embellishments and a silver clutch, was a complete eye catcher! The collection was henceforth an effective display of the ambitious and powerful working women who love keeping it classy and stylish even at work.

Sam Riley has been officially announced as the new face for Ermenegildo Zegna couture wear. Replacing Jamie Dornan for the brand’s campaign, Sam Riley has also recently worked for Angelina Jolie’s film, ‘Maleficent’.

Shot by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, the campaign will display Riley alone, along with models dressed in Zegna suits, formalwear and sportswear from the brand’s latest fall collection.

Mod’ Art International hosted its annual passing out fashion show ‘A La Mode, 2014’ at Elysee hall, The Suryaa, New Friends Colony.

The glittering graduating showcase choregraphed by Ketan Bhatia had 48 individual pieces of exotic collections namely Parable O Castle, Archaic au Courant, Resurrection of the medieval, Spring Umbrella and Flurry Gust.

An ideal platform for leading design talent, A La Mode 2014 had stylist Rishi Raj and designer Shivali Misra , Mr. Patrice De Place, President, Mod’ Art International Paris, and former director Christian Dior and Celine (LVMH Group), judging the event.

The high powered night was graced by prominent faces including Designers Raakesh Agarvwal, Sonia Jetleey, Josh Goraya, Shaine Soni, Amit Talwar, Industrialist Vikrum Baidyanath, Ex Big Boss Contestant and Yoga Guru Vivek Mishra, Socialites Poonam Sharma, Sona Goyal, Sunaina Chibba, Tanya Kapoor, Arpita Bansal, Shruti Sharma, Twinkle Vinayak, Vedika Sharma, Entrepreneurs Nikhil Kumar, Julie Deb, Harsheen Arora, Artist Vipul Amar, Beauty Expert Dr. Varun Katyal, Hair & Make up Expert Sylvie, Kaajee, Choreographer Ketan Bhatia, Celebrity Stylist Rishi Raj, Models Andrea, Reka, Ritu amongst others.

The Central Saint Martin’s held its annual BA Fashion Show which was dedicated to its professor, Late Louise Wilson.

The show was comprised of forty fashion students from women’s wear, men’s wear, print, knitwear and fashion design and marketing fields. Among the very quirky to the very wearable collections, Gracie Wales-Bonner’s collection won the L’Oréal Professionnel Talent Award along with a cash prize of $8,380. The men’s wear creations were a mixture of Nigerian influences and feminism with the very traditional seventies glamour.

Kering luxury group collaborates with Parsons the New School for Design for the third edition of its ‘Empowering Imagination’ Competition. The competition is a unique platform wherein the young aspirants graduating from Parsons BFA are enabled to intern with one of Kering’s 22 luxury, sport and lifestyle brands.

Based on the theme, ‘empowering imagination’ the college shortlists the top fourteen students of Fashion Design, who display effective dedication, professional practice and far-sightedness with reference to luxury, sports and lifestyle markets. A group which includes brands like Gucci, Bottega Veneta, Saint Laurent, Alexander McQueen, Balenciaga, Brioni, Christopher Kane, McQ, Stella McCartney, Kering’s competition prepares the future fashionistas of the world for the upcoming challenges and enables them to lead in their respective fields.

With last year’s winners being Harim Jung and Yunxiang Zhou, who earned internships with Bottega Veneta and Brioni, two winners will similarly be announced on the 2^nd of June, when the finalists will present their creations. Among the fourteen finalists, Wenqi Wu, Moon Hwang, Justin Chu, Youngji Cho, Wenqi Wu, Moon Hwang, Shin Young Jang, Hye Gin Hamm, Carlota Salvadores, Ximon Lee, Inseop Keum, Tuyen Tranare are the few of them.

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Monthly Archives: June 2014

Art Guild House

Diva’nis glamorous Launch

Giorgio Armani Resort 2015

Sam Riley for Ermenegildo Zegna

Dior Secret Garden III – Versailles

A La Mode 2014

St. Martin’s Annual Show

Kering Nurtures Young Talent