The Cannes 09 schedule is out, and the lasgerst film industry failed to feature here. There is no Indian film that qualified for the prestigious film rendezvous this year!
Now we have to wait and watch which Indian beauty charms the fashionistas at this event!
Some of the New York State’s laws!
the benchmarks!
It took four and half hours to crown another Indian woman a Pantaloons Femina Miss India. (Well the title has changed from Femina Miss India to Ponds Femina Miss India to now Pantaloons Femina Miss India; I guess they sell more than just the name of the contest)
I watch this show for the sheer nostalgia and hope. I honestly love Aishwarya Rai, Sushmita Sen, Priyanka Chopra and Lara Dutta among a bunch of the older Miss Indias. These women were not even churned through the ‘training or polishing’ process and were still so god-dammit charming. They were inspired b y more than Mother Teresa and their mothers and wanted more than ‘world peace’. I miss those misses!
Well the show began with the gorgeous Malaika Arora being the beauteous her, and welcoming judges such as Deepika Padukone (Gorgeous hamesha!), Asin (pretty), Nandita Mahtani (for her style quotient), Sushmita Sen (a little over fed Miss Universe still!) and Ajay Devgan (why?). Then came the absolutely absurd preliminary round winners such as Gilli Miss Golden Heart, Jealous 21 Miss Sexy Legs (if I open a bar, that’ll be priority), Indiatimes Miss 58888 (is that how they define the perfect figure now-a-days?), Sony My Miss India and the best of the lot was Kohler Miss Bold (this should lead to a mental contradiction with the contestants- should be the desi demure girl or should be the hard ‘bold’ slutty mama?); and the rest were the old ‘Best Smile, Best Body yadayada!
I guess even the event organizers knew that these women were not hot enough to burn the TRP meter, so they got in a 3 lovely lads to spice things up. First a frosty Genelia D’souza swinging to the 80, a slightly not interested Kanga Renault trying to dance and the cherry was Priyanka Chopra with her desi girl bonfire! One of the other entertaining factors was Swapnil and Karan sprucing up some cheap but fun humour! I guess it was the male ooglers, thus passed the womanly ear! But what crash landed on our ears was the choice of music, with ‘I wanna make love to you’ being followed by ‘masakalli’ for the ramp stamps!
A friend of mine called just to vent, saying the posing was poise-less, walking wastes and answers (like Wichita saying she wanted to change her nose and God should work on Humans and world peace!) annoying!
Well through the rut came the not so gorgeous beauties- the winners:
ჱ Pantaloons Femina Miss India Earth- Shriya Kishore (wordy but not sturdy beauty!)
ჱ Pantaloons Femina Miss India World- Pooja Chopra (talented but the ‘bold’ kinda beauty)
ჱ Pantaloons Femina Miss India Universe- Ekta Chawdhary (sweet but not salty enough!)
Well some more surprises were the announcement that the Pantaloons Femina Miss India World and Pantaloons Femina Miss India Universe have the same pedestal and stature. NEWS: for many years, they both have the same stature, no winning!
Hope these women meet an alchemist, and India meets another world beauty!
India has just seen a display of some people’s interpretation of fashion. The 3 main fashion weeks, namely, the Wills India Fashion week and the Delhi Fashion week in Delhi and the Lakme Fashion week in Mumbai, were supposed to display Autumn/ Winter lines for the upcoming season. What surprised me throughout was the lack of seasonal sense, or may be it was lack of exposure that made these people just make ‘clothes’ for ‘fashion’…not ensembles or garments for the chillier days, or as some of lecherously call it-‘winter fashion’.
I have been dying to see hats and gloves on the Indian ramp. It’s not that the Indian terrain does not suffer chill winters, but we believe in shawls and sweaters I guess. Nida Mahmood, my new favourite, brought out some fun but springish fashion! The rest was not really worth the talk!
Lakme India Fashion Week on the other hand was a sensation for reasons more than one! Firstly the 50th birthday of Barbie, which had them doing a Barbie themed show. Secondly Vikram Chatwal’s ‘Mai Mumbai’ show, which had Naomi Campbell grace the Indian ramp for the very first time, with the likes of Manolo Blahnik and Roberto Cavalli collaborating. Also, with full drama from stars like Akshay Kumar and Shah Rukh Khan trying to add humour to fashion, Manish Arora may feel threatened! (FYI: I was majorly upset with Manish Arora for giving the Delhi Fashion Week a boring collection!) And lastly, a better sense of fashion prevailed with a new location at the Grand Hyatt!
In all, I’m melting in the Mumbai heat, dying for summer fashion to hit the stores on time, so that I can sport my hats and skimpy summer dresses before I evaporate!
The Millennium’s hottest supermodel, and mum, Gisele Bundchen bares all for Vanity Fair, to add to the hotness. The rockstar of a model shows and glows in her skin. This can add to the already burning summers and actually be fetal!
Haha…
But this is one collector’s edition for all fashion fans!
friday!
I, a woman, have always felt that going to office/college is a must do for ALL wome.
Basically, one of the most natural happy hormones for women is dressing up. And if followed by a cause, it adds to the detail.
One of the most confusing, caotic and amusing parts of my day is the morning, around 8, when i have to chose what i need ot wear to ofice. But the joy of poutting together a ensamble is unmatched. The condiment in this equation is the other 2 women in my department, who oftem theme a day, and we all follow it. It’s almost like our secret office party.
Little joys of she-land!
bar code
hippie day
The shoes are gorgeous! but the frill..baby doll...errrrr..naaaa
why does the whole workshop have to be translated into a dress!
Former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has confessed that she feels like a gay man.
The stunner said that she loves being in the company of homosexual men because she has “more in common” with them.
“I love women. I like them as friends, as interesting people to speak with. But I love gay men. I always say it. Inside me there is a gay man who wants to come out!” The Daily Star quoted Victoria, as telling the Italian Vanity Fair.
Now I wonder if this spurs from her company at home.
With the minimalistic look dominating the scene now-a-days, accesories like the BANGLE, signature neck peices and innovative use of jewelled atrifacts will hit the spring fashion scenario in a big way. So go ahead and hoit your fashion laboraotries! Bring on the colours, slice through textures patents. Mix and match patterns, polka dots with strips with bold colours.
The summer sun can fade out some colour from your spirit. But sweat not. A bold blue neck piece can add that springy life and SPJ spunk to your clasically suave but plain white mulmul kurta!
I know it may sound early for sring fashion. But the calender is screaming for it, and you need time to prep-up for it!
Happy wild shopping!
I was surfing through the internet, and this guy’s shoe-ology amused me.
Hope you enjoy it too!
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