LFW Winter/Festive 2010: Manish Malhotra

• By Priyanka
• September 22, 2010
• The Daily Etcetera
• 38

Let’s hand it to the man, Manish knows just who his audience is and what his audience wants and sees nothing wrong in showing collection after collection of just that. Manish Malhotra has it down to a science, ladies and gentlemen. Besides the expected voluminous anarkalis and sheer saris, there were harem pants, salwar-kameezes and some western silhouettes in various shades of reds and blues mostly, those being the colors of Aircel, the sponsors of the show.

Yes it was repetitive. Some of it very pretty. And before the ink dries (or it’s equivalent in the web world), half of Bollywood would be spotted in it. So to speak.

Photo Credit: Viral Bhayani

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LFW Winter Festive 2010: Malini Ramani

• By Payal
• September 22, 2010
• The Daily Etcetera
• 7

Closing out LFW was Malini Ramani. Like her last collection, the Gypsy collection inspired by Lakme’s winter color palette was also divided into four themes.

Mirror and shell embroidery on black and tie and dye fabric dominated the first segment, Mystery. Bliss consisted of minis, maxis covered in colorful prints that from far looked like intricate embroidery. Cosmic went more tribal in nature featuring feathers, shell and coin embellishments. The last one, Nirvana, was presented by the Lakme models Lisa, Amrit, Indrani and Shraddha who wore black and red creations that were heavy on shell, mirror and tassel work.

The designer didn’t foray far from her usual offerings of maxis, full-sleeve dresses, sarongs but the fact that Malini sticks to her signature design aesthetic without letting it go stale always stands out. Love the infusion of her inspiration (the world) into this line.

Click on images for bigger pics.

Bliss

Bliss

Cosmic

Nirvana

Photo Credit: Viral Bhayani

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LFW Winter/Festive 2010: Neeta Lulla

• By Priyanka
• September 21, 2010
• The Daily Etcetera
• 21

For her collection, Neeta Lulla drew inspiration from the work she’s done spanning two decades. With both western-wear and Indian-wear, Neeta covered a whole gamut of silhouettes. And used in abundance were nets, pleating, crystals and a whole lot of rosettes. A whole lot of rosettes.

We’ve had enough celebrity sightings (in Ms. Lulla’s clothes) to know by now that it’s only a matter of time before we see some of these off-the-runway. Sigh.

On an aside, for your reading pleasure, a snippet from the P.R note:

The show stopper was the beauteous Bollywood star Sridevi in a sensational silver will-power fish tail gown bringing to end a fantastic show.

Photo Credit: Viral Bhayani

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In Whistles

• By Payal
• September 21, 2010
• Found/Off The Runway
• 7

It was a Whistles Stockholm print dress for Ms. Choudry on day four of LFW who also attended the Manish Malhotra show. She kept the look simple pairing it with a black (Devi Kroell?) clutch and dark blue platform pumps. Besides Preity, she was our other favorite of the night.

Left: Sophie Choudry at Manish Malhotra Show at LFW Winter Festive 2010
Right: Whistles Stockholm Print Dress

Photo Credit: Viral Bhayani

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The Jumpsuit Saga

• By Payal
• September 21, 2010
• Again And Again
• 20

If you thought Rani Mukherjee’s love-affair with jumpsuits just started this year, think again! The actress actually wore her very first one way back last year in Toronto.

Each of her of looks always went wrong for one reason or the other. The first blue one was too flared, the olive green ones didn’t work because of the chunky shoes and we don’t have to point out what went wrong with the Sabyasachi appearance now, do we?

This one was the best of the lot but still such an almost. If the jumpsuit was completely black without the snake-print waist detail, we’d have loved the look but as is that rope belt on top of the waist detail looks very off.

Wonder how many more wrongs are we going to have to go through to finally see that one right one! Something tells us though, this is the best we’ll ever see.

Rani Mukherjee at Neeta Lulla Show at LFW Winter Festive 2010

Extreme Left: Dil Bole Hadippa Press Meet, Toronto
Left: Sabyasachi Store Launch, Mumbai
Right: Peepli Live Music Launch, Mumbai
Extreme Right: Sabyasachi Couture Show, Delhi

Photo Credit: Viral Bhayani, Filmicafe, Daylife

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