Amit Aggarwal successfully pulled off the first real couture show of this edition of the India Couture Week 2018. In a country where the terms bridal and couture are often used interchangeably — and where the craftsman’s back-breaking dedication to his vocation often shines brighter than the designer’s ability to innovate and reinvent — this… Continue reading India Couture Week 2018: We want everything from Amit Aggarwal’s spectacular show
Over the last few seasons of India Couture Week — or India Bridal Week, which would be a more accurate term — Tarun Tahiliani has made his obsession with lightening the sartorial burden of the modern bride known. He doesn’t want her to sit on the stage like an installation, but mingle and dance with guests in… Continue reading India Couture Week 2018: Tarun Tahiliani’s show celebrates the guilt-free bride
If you didn’t know the name Faraz Manan before, commit it to memory now. The Lahore-based couturier has scored two major wins this past month alone, with Jacqueline Fernandez wearing a traffic-stopping red sari by the designer to Aamir Khan’s Diwali bash, only a week after Kareena Kapoor Khan was spotted in a blush-pink salwar… Continue reading Pakistan’s couturier Faraz Manan has become Bollywood’s new favourite
It’s hard to keep Rohit Bal in one spot, harder still to command his attention for more than a few minutes. With guests and well-wishers determined to wish the designer before his magnum opus couture show at Delhi’s Bikaner House, it’s a miracle the designer even has time to tell us his collection is “inspired… Continue reading Inside the dreamy world of Rohit Bal bridal couture
Earlier this year, actor Preity Zinta chose a lowkey wedding abroad, leaving us feeling just a tad bit cheated out of the hooplah of a big, fat celebrity wedding. Addressing the balance though, cricketer Yuvraj Singh and Bollywood actor Hazel Keech have tied the knot with a grand wedding, scripted straight out of Karan Johar’s… Continue reading Breaking down Hazel Keech’s wedding wardrobe
