Wear Me To The Oscars!

New York Fashion Week has begun and it's already Award season and thats what I would call a perfect marriage. While just a few collections have been showcased I have been blown away by Jason Wu's Fall Winter collection, the last few looks of gowns were stunning definitely Oscar worthy. They struck the right balance between stylish yet sexy. Cab definitely be seen worn by the likes of Angelina Jolie and Megan Fox. Now if only they could wean off their staple of Versace and Armani.

pics : Style.com

GAGA

Much has been said about Lady Gaga's Vogue US cover, some say the magazine is elitist and shouldn't have her on their cover, some say Anna Wintour is goilng too mainstream for the fashion masses. While she may have have appeared on Vogue Nippon and Elle covers, there's no denying Lady Gaga is the Madonna of our generation all about the shock and awe.LOVE it!

Cover Round Up : Feb 2011

Every Magazine has got their game face on and produced some of the best fashion forward covers we have seen in a while! Hope this momentum keeps up!

A look at Spring Summer's Campaigns

Transgenders, fruits, butterflies, the Orient and California dreamin.

pics : tfs

New Product Launch Alert: Revlon Just Bitten Lipstain

I personally can't wait for this product to land in my vanity case. Offlate I have been obsessed with all things lip related, from balms to lipglosses. A big deal for me as nothing other than good ole vaseline could stay on my lips for more than 5 minutes. The Revlon lipstain seems like the ideal solution for me, the lipstick virgin. Other than MAC here hasn't been any lipstain presence in the Indian market and Revlon aims to counter just this. Whether light or dark, the colour intensity can be adjusted by mere pressure and application.The product comes with a lipbalm on the other end, surely packing a punch!

Priced at Rs 750

Tom Ford Spring Summer Eyewear Campaign: Abbey Lee Kershaw

Spring summer campaigns are upon us, and the biased person that I am have posted Tom Ford's eyewear campaign featuring the 'it' model Abbey Lee Kershaw. The campaign takes a departure from his usal sexual in your face imagery. I love it. The sunglasses on the left, I want to own!
Fabulous.

2011 Fresh Crop of Covers

It's been a busy December. However it's now 2011 and I bring to you the latest crop of covers.

Padma Lakshmi is on the 3rd ever 'Shape' issue for Vogue. I don't get why Vogue with the exception of Cindy Crawford issue gets their international star covers wrong.

Harper's Bazaar got the beautiful Karishma Kapoor on their cover, albeit heavily photoshopped. Why must they do that to her?

The Last Resort

Resort is a relatively unknown a few years ago in India, however with Lakme India Fashion introducing Resort wear lines. As the name suggests this line is designed specifically for holidays ( read St. Tropez or St. Barts) and hits stores before a little before the holiday season.

I love the understated glamour and easy chic vibe resort wear gives out.Unusual pairings have totally inspired me to reinvent my wardrobe. I'm taking a cue from Doo Ri's line (pic 1 ) by pairing a draped dress with a blazer. Textured skirt and jacket from Viktor and Rolf (pic 3) Coloured pop jackets and shorts from Dsquared (pic 5) Sleek minimalism from Celine. God bless you Pheobe! Colour blocking seen at Moschino , florals on florals at Kenzo and lastly my favourite collection has to be Jason Wu and the opening look, a white blouse buttoned to the top and shorts so effortless so fab!

All pics from style.com

Freida Pinto for GQ (US) by Marc Hom

India's biggest export to the West Freida Pinto has landed another editorial for a magazine, this time GQ. Do I think it's her best one? Nope, but this girl is going places and we have to commend her for this instead of proclaiming that she looks like a bai .Atleast she doesn't have a LA meets London meets Bombay accent!

Manish Arora : 160g editorial

STOP!

For the past few weeks, fashion has been making headlines all over India. First it was the couture week, then men's fashion week, then next I heard was Kolkata couture week. Excuse me? Kolkata fashion week and Lakme Fashion week trundling along later with the major coup d'etat they was roping in Manish Arora who showed us a stale collection already viewed in France. In another few days HDIL will host Spring/Summer 2011. All these incessant shows must end. As much as we like to pride ourselves in having fashion weeks, sitting front row and having "international" buyers this has to stop.

Can we consider the above design even something remotely connected to fashion? It's a disgraceful dress something I would imagine a drag queen to wear.

We need to get our act together, make sure we get our seasons right. Drop these multiple fashion weeks and by no account should we do couture. The term 'Haute Couture' is copyrighted. Only those members who belong to the chamber can produce Hatue Couture collections. Why must we copy a french title? Don't Indian designers earn their money from custom made gowns and employ people in their ateliers? Talented people like Nachiket Barve don't get due credit owing to crappy so called designers such as Manish Malhotra and Neeta Lulla who obviously know that innovation is not a word in their dictionary.

Indian fashion ought to change, get a proper council and get your act together.