These are some names that are definitive of the Indian fashion industry: Anita Dongre, Anamika Khanna, Raghavendra Rathore, Abu Jani, Sandeep Khosla and brothers Shantanu and Nikhil Mehra. You’ve seen them take a bow with their showstoppers on countless runways, but we bet you can’t recall their maiden collections. In fact, we wondered if they… Continue reading Back To The Origin: Iconic Designer Anamika Khanna On Her First-Ever Fashion Collection
Born to celebrated fashion designer Anamika Khanna, Viraj Khanna’s design aesthetic is far different from the iconic AK silhouettes. Heavily influenced by his art and illustrations, his designs are often an embodiment of ‘wearable art’. Emblazoned with collages in the form of digital prints, now Viraj and Vishesh Khanna are all set to launch the… Continue reading #ELLEexclusive: Viraj Khanna on the launch of AK-OK’s second collection
An Indian fashion stalwart, a visionary creative, and one of Bollywood’s favourite designers, Anamika Khanna’s name is synonymous with a lot of things. A few of them being her reinterpretation of Indian craft for the contemporary woman, lending revolutionary silhouettes to saris, and breaking the internet with her Cannes looks for muse Sonam Kapoor Ahuja.… Continue reading Ace designer Anamika Khanna on the movies that have stayed with her through the years
After designer Manish Malhotra’s magical showcase at the previous edition of Lakmé Fashion Week, it’s now designer Anamika Khanna’s turn to put the ‘grand’ in grand finale for this year’s Lakmé Fashion Week Summer Resort ’18. The designer — who has dressed celebrities like Katrina Kaif, Deepika Padukone and Shilpa Shetty — will be presenting a collection of contemporary designs in… Continue reading Anamika Khanna is the grand finale designer for Lakmé Fashion Week’s Summer/Resort edition
Never does the adage ‘one size fits all’ seem more rhetorical than when you head out to buy a gorgeous new outfit… only to be stymied by a restrictive sizing chart. Good news though, the world of fashion has been doing a lot to repair the damage done — Prabal Gurung’s plus-sized collection for Lane Bryant… Continue reading Curvy girls, you can now rent designer clothes in your size
Sonam Kapoor’s fashion choices are hardly mainstream. She’s delivered plenty of red carpets hits in glamorous couture and worn festive looks with a twist—remember the genius Rahul Mishra sari-jacket combo? If we had to pick our favourite on the star it would be that Anamika Khanna sari she wore to Cannes in 2013. Something about that fierce,… Continue reading 40 times Sonam Kapoor showed us how to do Indianwear right
Katrina Kaif is the reason we’re doing more reps at the gym. Everything from her revenge bod to her Baar Baar Dekho wardrobe has made news. (Psst, here are 5 looks you can steal from her.) More recently, Kaif proved that the cold shoulder look is here to stay with a Jonathan Simkhai dress and strappy Louboutins.… Continue reading Is it just us or has Katrina Kaif transformed for Baar Baar Dekho?
By now it’s hard to imagine a grand finalé without a constellation of stars. The winter/festive ’16 edition of Lakmé Fashion Week ended with a grand spectacle by Sabyasachi, and was attended by Deepika Padukone, Karisma Kapoor and Bipasha Basu among others. The set was dotted with chandeliers, and the Symphony Orchestra of India filled… Continue reading Vote for Kareena Kapoor Khan’s best look on the runway
Anamika Khanna’s career has gone from strength and strength in the past couple of years, in Bollywood (we’ve run out of fingers to count the number of times we’ve spotted Sonam Kapoor in her exquisite creations) and on the global fashion circuit (remember when her Couture Spring / Summer Collection was presented at Kensington Palace… Continue reading Anamika Khanna collaborates with Amrapali Jewels for debut jewellery collection
While we wait for the 69th edition of Cannes to blow up our Insta-Twitter-Snapchat-Facebook feed, we are looking back to our favourite moments over the years. Remember when Aishwarya Rai Bachchan made you scoop your jaw off the floor in a shimmering Robert Cavalli number? Or Princess Diana wearing a Catherine Walker gown in 1987? Or how… Continue reading Throwback to the best looks on the Cannes red carpet over the years
Jacqueline Fernandez’s sartorial choices reflect her contagious energy – even when she’s on the red carpet. Her early years in Bollywood were spent in a blur of embellished dresses like the dove gold Roberto Cavalli number. Today she transitions from a heart-print Lanvin to a regal Sabyasachi couture ensemble with ease. We round up our favourite… Continue reading 15 times Jacqueline Fernandez won the red carpet
“Anamika [Khanna] wanted a very sporty-Indian look,” says make-up expert Ambika Pillai. “She wanted hair to look as if someone has just come back from the gym, tied it carelessly into a knot, and left half of open.” For the bindis: “I’ve used lip balm as the base, and used talcum powder on top, and… Continue reading Get the look at anaMika
Amazon India Fashion Week delivered stellar shows day after day, and ended with one star-studded night. They gathered some of India’s best designers — 25 of them, to mark 25 years of the Fashion Design Council of India — and put the focus on Indian crafts for the grand finale. It was broken into Western, Indian and… Continue reading 25 years of FDCI, and 25 designers at the grand finale
