February 2016 - Page 11 of 15

Nestled on the ground floor of Phoenix Marketcity Kurla, Asia Bar launched a monthly property, “The Green Room” perfect for post-work drinks or to simply unwind over some fun food and cocktails.

Lately,The Green Room hosted popular Bollywood hairstylist, Adhuna Akthar, which witnessed popular faces from beauty & fashion fraternity letting their hair down at Asia Bar.

The guests seen swinging to Hip-hop & R&B music were Sapna Bhawnani, Avan Contractor, Hakim Alim, Kanta Motwane along with many other creme de la creme from the beauty industry.

Femininity, now more sophisticated than ever as the most admired beauty brand Chanel offer new look to how fragrant you are. The LES BEIGES range turns “natural” into a style as the line expands with a fluid foundation focused on freedom: HEALTHY GLOW FOUNDATION. This complexion enhancer features the latest optical innovations and contains a specific ingredient simplifying the makeup application to a light, fresh and easy-to-apply texture to embellish the complexion. CHANEL offers a complete palette of 14 shades. To choose a tone-on-tone effect for a complexion with a natural glow and a darker tone for a slightly sun kissed result.

Moving on to fragrance COCO MADEMOISELLE,a fragrance with a strong character and yet surprisingly fresh … IN A “TOUCHE DE PARFUM”, evermore sensual, evermore feminine, evermore elegant.

Come March, COCO MADEMOISELLE will be available in a limited-edition “Touche de Parfum” to accompany women wherever, and whenever they want and just the way they want. Inspired by lipstick, the new fragrance format nestled in a pearlized beige suedette case can be slipped into your bag for an addictive, take anywhere dash of seduction. Use the applicator to deposit a touch of the clear, rich, fragrant texture like a delicate and sensual caress on the wrist, the neck or the décolleté.

Availability:

· Chanel Palladium, High Street Phoenix, Mumbai Tel: +91 9004882225
· Chanel Phoenix Market City, 142 Velachery Main Road,Chennai Tel: +914430083606
· Chanel Select Citywalk, Saket, New Delhi – 110 017 Tel: + 91-011 4211 426

Offlate, on the occasion of the opening of the Arttd’inox flagship store in New Delhi, Suneet Varma unveiled his elegant and chic line of homeware and table top accessories embellished with Swarovski crystals.

After working with textiles and embroidery throughout his years in the industry, Suneet has used the same design concept to work with stainless steel – one of the hardest materials in the world creatively integrated with crystals from Swarovski. The collection embodies his designs as a couturier and applies them to create homeware for a luxurious lifestyle.

The square and rectangular stainless steel vases are in a set of five, that can be used separately or together to decorate the home with a combination of tall and short stemmed flowers and exotic greens. The surface of the vases is etched in the Jali pattern inspired from the architecture of the Mughal Empire further decorated in crystal and golden shadow Swarovski crystals called Rhombus flat back, adds sparkle to your abode.

To celebrate the Clair de Lune capsule collection, Christian Louboutin invited Katie Rodgers, the illustrator behind the site Paper Fashion, to create a series of hand painted watercolour illustrations and gifs. Directly referencing the collection’s inspiration, the artwork depicts Clair de Lune styles floating like brilliant comets against a shimmering moonlit sky, while crystals gleam and dance across the shoes.

A unique strass application using four sizes of crystals in 11 different colours, Clair de Lune draws the eye with the force of the moon’s gravitational pull. From the French phrase for “moonlight,” the hand applied strass emulates the effect of moonlight dancing over flowers in a field, conjuring feelings of whimsical flirtation and romance.

Glamour and panache take center-stage in Bangalore Fashion Week at Sheraton Grand Hotel. The 14th edition, brought elegance and flair of the exciting 4 day extravaganza. In addition to being a unique opportunity for talented fashion designers, the event showcased a magnificent lineup of 26 handpicked designers in a four-day gala de la mode, featuring the works of renowned designers Rehane, Ramesh Dembla, Abhishek Dutta and Pria Kataria Puri for grand finale amongst others.

Day 1

Acclaimed actress Parvathy Nair walked the ramp for designer Mable Thomas and Mandana Karimi walked for designer Ramesh Dembla while Students from Dream Zone opened the day at the opening day of fashion week. Day 2 saw Aindrita Ray walking the ramp for designer Anjana & Anamika and Akshara Hassan walked for designer Rehane.

Day 2

The penultimate day had south Indian actress Vaishali Deepak and Apoorva Gowda walking the ramp for designer Niharika and actors Sangeetha Bhat and Gurunandan for Shloka Sudhakar. Former Miss Asia Pacific Nicole Faria walked the ramp for Ashok Maanay. Urvashi Rautela set the stage scorching for Riya Kodali. Students from Dream Zone opened the day at the third day of fashion week.

Day 3

Pria Kataaria Puri’s modern, racy and edgy collection of luxury beach and resort wear takes you to the exotic beaches of St. Tropez in the French Riviera. Actor Gautam Gulati along with prominent supermodel Waluscha De Sousa closed the show, which had been interestingly teamed with shrugs, tassel scarves and luscious fur jackets along with tunics, sexy maxi and body con dresses and culotte sets.

Day 4

Online beauty retailer and Femina, came together to host the second edition of Nykaa Femina Beauty Awards 2016 at ITC Grand Central, Parel. The awards recognized and rewarded the best products and brands across the Makeup, Hair, Skin & Fragrance categories in 30 major segments.

The evening was graced by distinguished personalities such as Sonakshi Sinha, Ranveer Singh, Athiya Shetty, Pernia Qureshi, Sunny Leone,Monica Dogra,Tisca Chopra,Rochelle Rao,Mandana Karimi,Patralekha,Divya Dutta,Krishika Lulla (film producer, Eros), Shrishti Arya (film producer, Eros),Ali Fazal, Keith Sequeira and more!

The most awaited & anticipated 1st edition of HTC Tech Fashion Tour 2016, an attempt to emphasize Fashion’s influence on Technology, saw coming together of celebs, designers, socialites, fashionistas & tech-enthusiasts for this unique fashion extravaganza.

Also, featuring for the first time on the fashion ramp were the formidable, sleek, smart and efficient next-generation robots by UBTECH. These bots, who boast of advanced motor skills and amazing co-ordination, perfectly executed a stellar coordinated performance at the ramp..

This one of a kind event had formidable, sleek, smart and efficient next-generation robots by UBTECH, with an advanced motor skills and amazing co-ordination, perfectly executed a stellar coordinated performance for the fabulous line-up of designers including Archana Kochhar, Rocky Star, Ken Ferns and Pria Kataaria Puri.

The star-studded glitzy evening with the elegant & gracious Sonaakshi Sinha also had Kiran Bawa, Simi Chandok, Konkana Bakshi,Shahnaz Treasurywala, Sooraj Pancholi, Urvashi Rautela, Rajneesh Duggal, Neil nitin mukesh, Divya Khosla Kumar, Gautam Gulati, Sonakshi sinha, Pooja Chopra, Hard Kaur, Claudia Ciesla, Daisy Shah, Nora Fatehi, Ragini Khanna and Tara Alisha Berry.

(February 7-21 2016)

Last night, Diesel India hosted the first projection photography exhibit by celebrity photographer Rohan Shrestha, curated by Ambika Hinduja Macker, at their Juhu flagship store in Mumbai as a part of its Diesel + Art initiative.

Inspired by Japan the cherry blossom or Sakura, and Japanese aesthetic, Rohan’s debut solo exhibition is a result of his love for photography and passion to experiment. In search of the Sakura, the artist visited Kyoto, Japan in 2015,intrigued by the colour palette of cherry blossom and its uncanny similarity with an infrared image, the young artist decided to assay with a coloured and converted infrared camera.’Hanami’ exhibits 18 images. Using six ultra-projectors along with a moving image pieces, housed in the backdrop of print images, Diesel + Art’s latest show is a pioneering projection photography show in the city.

The launch event was attended by celebrities, corporate honchos, social influencers and eminent art lovers. Among others, were present Ranveer Singh, Shahid Kapoor, Sonakshi Sinha, Kriti Sanon, Aditi Rao Hydari, Hinduja Family, Arjun & Mehr Rampal, Rajkumar Rao, Arjun Kapoor, Abu Jani & Sandeep Khosla, Kunal Rawal, Anupam Kher, Esha Gupta, Athiya Shetty and many more to support the artist and the Diesel + Art non-profitable initiative, where 10% of the exhibit sales goes to Ummeed, a charitable organization working with disabled children.

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Monthly Archives: February 2016

Adhuna Akhtar in Green Room

Les Beiges & Touche de Parfum of Chanel

Swarovski dazzles with Suneet Varma in Arttd’inox

Christian Louboutin: Dance to Clair de Lune

Bangalore fashion week: Summer 2016

Beauty Awards 2016

Tech Fashion Tour’16

Diesel + Art present Rohan Shrestha