“Medieval ideas” and the “Talabanisation of Amity” are a few of the epithets being hurled at the actions of the administration of Amity University in Noida. And the cause? A new and stringent enforcement of a dress code that does not allow the students to wear jeans, t-shirts, sneakers, and certain kinds of skirts.
The dress [...]
Now that the Willis Lifestyle India Fashion Week, whose expansion of India’s fashion industry was cause of earlier debate, has concluded, it’s time to turn our eyes to what the event was truly about: fashion.
The collections, designed for the spring and summer of 2007, displayed a variety of pallettes, inspirations, and styles, though many remarked [...]
The Willis Lifestyle India Fashion Week (WIFW), which kicked off on Wednesday, marks a number of firsts for the fashion industry in India. The promising fact is that the WIFW is the first-ever second Fashion Week; the detraction from this appearance of expansion is that the event is also the first of its kind to [...]
India’s top clothing extravaganza, India Fashion Week, will begin on April 5th, 2006, despite recent complications.
After six years of partnership, the Fashion Design Company of India (FDCI), which heads India Fashion Week, has parted ways with Lakme cosmetics, which will sponsor Lakme Fashion Week in association with event management company IMG. Lakme has scheduled [...]
The ultra-premium brand of Louis Phillippe are now available in India at an all new gallery/store.
These stores have a unique retail identity emphasising the character of the brand in every element of the store. The uniqueness is expressed in the size of the store (averaging about 3000 square feet) and the layout, which focuses on [...]
The biggest fashion statement you can make today is one that is already on your body: the belly button. Partly due to sexy starlet Aishwarya Ray and other Bollywood babes, the navel has become the height of fashion in India. Some westerners may say that it was America that started the trend with [...]
Fashion in India is no longer just for kicks- it’s big business, and serious. The Moschino fashion show proved that things are changing for Indian fashion, becoming more hi-end.
…the Moschino show, held recently in Mumbai, was indicative of big changes in the way business is done in the Indian hi-end fashion industry. [...]
Really great article at indianexpress.com. The juxtaposition of Jennifer Anniston and Mahatma Gandhi (along with his T-shirt hawking grandson Tushar Gandhi and righteous websites using Gandhi’s words to defend everything from veganism to gun rights) really makes you question yourself/your society whether you are an Indian or a westerner:
Apparently Aniston owns a pair of [...]
Indian fashion designer Ashish Soni is the first Indian to ever be invited to New York Fashion Week, where he will promote “Incredible India” at the world-famous fashion festival next month. Soni is currently designing yoga kits, mats, towels, and t-shirts emblazoned with the Incredible India logo in a tourism ministry-backed effort to promote India [...]
With miniskirts, tight outfits, and other inappropriate clothing appearing more and more in Mumbai’s Catholic churches, Archbishop of Mumbai Cardinal Ivan Dias is urging churchgoers to dress more modestly for services. Dias stated, “People are wearing attire which is considered casual and unbecoming of the sacred dignity of the church and the members of its [...]