The Colors of Asia fashion show was a charity event held in London at the start of July. It featured a range of designers including HSY, Salinah Wardah, Rouge by Memoona Manan and Amna Kardar.Here’s a small selection of what they had on show:These photos are courtesy of MNB Photography, you can view the rest of Naveen’s photos on his Colors of Asia facebook photo albumThese photos are by Nadya
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Kurta tops, I’m sure we’ve all worn them at some point, whether you bought it labelled as a “kaftan” from the high street (probably costing you a small fortune) or whether you ditched the shalwar of one of your suits and just wore the kameez with jeans, you have to admit they’re a fab east-west outfit.I recently came across Blush Couture a company who are sourcing out designers in India to bring
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You may remember last year I posted some photos from the catwalk at theMela at the Mall Show 2008 in Ilford, which featured Mongas, Rang and RDC. Well Mela at the Mall is back for 2009 and will be taking place on Saturday 24th October at The Mall in Ilford.Although designers for the fashion show haven’t been confirmed, make-up artist Naveeda will be there doing live make-overs. Best of all, entry
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If you followed London Fashion Week this year you may have spotted the collection by Bhavna Rishi which was part of the Fashion Diversity show (which as the name suggests aims to show diversity on the catwalks at London Fashion Week). Her collection is composed of scarves, kaftans and tunic dresses all made with organic silks.You can view a video of her catwalk show here.I got in touch with
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Hamara Photos have posted loads of photos from this years HDIL India Fashion Week. Here’s part one of a selection I’m going to share with you of the black and gold themed catwalk show from designer Manav Gangwani.These first two look like glitzier designer versions of some of the dresses you can find on the UK high street (which all the fashionable people are wearing with leggings). I really love
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There were so many great outfits from the Manav Gangwani show at the HDIL India Fashion Week, that I just had to split it into two blog posts! If you missed the first part, you can view it here. (Credit for these photos goes to Hamara Photos)Anyway, on with the show - there was yet more black and gold and some very unusual, some may say un-wearable skirt shapes:I think the black cloak with this
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Few asian product retailers have fully grasped the concept of taking their instore expertise online, sure everyone’s got a facebook fan page and maybe even their own website, but how many times have you googled a retailer only to find their website not only looks terrible but is extremely out of date or “under construction”. Well I’m happy to report another asian fashion jewellery retailer who
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Here are some more photos from the HDIL India Fashion week, courtesy of Hamara Photos, these outfits are by designer Manish Malhotra. This first set of outfits had a lot of stomach on show!There was a wide mix of textures and colours, although never too much of anything, for example the pink velvet top above sits perfectly with the neutral colours of the skirt…and for those that aren’t content
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If you saw the first photos I posted from the Manish Malhotra show at HDIL India Fashion Week you may have thought that all there was to show was very short tops and lonf flowing skirts! Well that wasn’t the case, and in fact there were some really interesting outfits mixed in too, take a look:Firstly, what do you think if this ensemble? The first few times I looked at this photo I my attention
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The Rhythm of Asia Fashion show took place in July this year, in London. It showcased designs by Pakistani designer, first up is the collection by Nadda Salim. Photography is by Shahid Malik.The show was dominated by longer (sometimes below the knee) tops worn with shorter trousers. There was also a lot of shiny blue on show:There were also some less sparkly and more understated black outfits.
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