Tarun and Malini at Jakarta Fashion Week

By Payal
November 14, 2009
The Daily Etcetera
22

Day one of the 2009 Jakarta Fashion week ended with Indian designers Tarun Tahiliani and Malini Ramani showing with Indonesian designers Sebastian Gunawan and Priyo Oktaviano. While most of the time Indian designers show their just-shown collection at other fashion shows, for this event Tarun and Malini created a brand new collection taking inspiration from Indonesian culture and fabrics with the Indonesian designers doing the same from Indian culture.

Both Tarun and Malini stuck to their trademark designs but incorporated the traditional Indonesian fabrics with Tarun opting for the more heavy brocade silks and Malini going with light-weight fabrics like cotton with light embroidery in hers. More than our designers, I was blown away by the Indonesia designer’s collections. The attention to detail and silhouettes were far better. Of the four, I will have to say Malini’s was the one I liked the least. Your thoughts?

Tarun Tahiliani

Tarun Tahiliani Collection at Jakarta Fashion Week, Indonesia – India Fashion Night

Tarun Tahiliani Collection at Jakarta Fashion Week, Indonesia – India Fashion Night

Malini Ramani

Malini Ramani Collection Jakarta Fashion Week, Indonesia – India Fashion Night

Malini Ramani Collection at Jakarta Fashion Week, Indonesia – India Fashion Night

Sebastian Gunawan

Sebastian Gunawan Collection Jakarta Fashion Week, Indonesia – India Fashion Night

Priyo Oktaviano

Priyp Oktaviano Collection at Jakarta Fashion Week, Indonesia – India Fashion Night

Photo Credit: Daylife

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Haseena And Simone On Verve: (Un)Covered

By Priyanka
October 21, 2009
(Un)Covered
34

The Oct 09 issue was all about the ‘Best Dressed List’ and fittingly Verve put those ladies on it’s cover who made their (Verve’s) cut.

While Haseena got to wear my (most) favorite outfit from Anand Kabra’s Spring 2010 collection, Simone donned a Nachiket Barve Fall 09 coat and Malini Ramani was dressed in her own label. As lovely as all the ladies were on the cover, Kalyani Chawla was an absolute scene stealer in her sari.

To check who made the Best Dressed List, go Here.

L To R: Nandita Mahtani, Rita Dhody, Akanksha Nanda, Haseena Jethmalani, Simone Singh, Malini Ramani, Priya Kishore, Kalyani Chawla

Left: Anand Kabra Spring 2010
Right: Nachiket Barve Fall 2009

Photo Credit: Viral Bhayani, Verve

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In Malini Ramani

By Payal
September 26, 2009
Found/Off The Runway
11

At the ‘Tote’ club launch party, Ms. Chowdhry was spotted in a Malini Ramani white mini which she paired with a blue clutch and white ankle-strap pumps. While I liked the pairing of the white with the blue clutch, the red lips and those ankle-straps on the pumps didn’t work for me. Neither did the dress itself.

Left: Malini Ramani, Spring 2009
Right: Ekta Chowdhry at Tote Launch

Photo Credit: India Times, Malini Ramani

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Miss Universe Countdown

In just a few hours a new Miss Universe will be crowned and in the running is also Miss India Ekta Chowdhry. While we wish her the best of luck, here is a looksee at some more outfits she wore past two weeks in Nassau, Bahamas. You can catch her National Costume outfit here.

There has been a lot of chatter that she will be wearing a variation of this Gauri Nainika dress seen in a different version on Aishwarya at the Drona premiere. But, from what we know the gown shown in the evening gown competition (in Ekta’s case: the red one below) is almost always the gown the contestants wear to the final event. Guess, we’ll have to wait till the telecast to see what she wears!

P.S. Yes, that is the same Ranna Gill we’ve seen before on the designer Ranna and also in a blue version on Sonali.