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Front Row View: Day 2 of WLIFW



On the second day of the delayed Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week on Friday, things seems to have fell in line with each other well. Afternoon marked a scintillating showing by designers Pankaj & Nidhi from the repose of the regulars at showings. They came out with graphic and architecture in silhouettes that were pleasing to the body and in black and white. Morphe by Amit Agarwal on the other hand chose to be in the company of high tech look.

Vineet Bahl made a clear deviation from his usual ‘pretty’ clothes and decided to come on the runway this time with something different such as military jacket, modal jersey drape top Lurex patch jackets and gold ivory silk chiffon panel dress. Pashma, the label that brought the much-desired warmth on the ‘autumn/winter’ showing had some chic cashmere and silk blend collection with stoles and caps. It was stylish while Rehane made it a point to introduce some golden shimmer in her young collection.

Rohit Gandhi and Rahul Khanna and their label ‘Cue’ have by now become one of the most stylishly dependable names in the fashion industry today. Their collection had some of the most stylish garments in clean and straight-line formats that were pleasing to the eye in terms of designs and colour palette. Sanchita too had her signature style in her collection, but her last one seemed to still hover around in the minds of people as a better option when it comes to choosing the best of the two. No doubt, it was well put together.

Shantanu & Nikhil on the other hand came out with an entire line of eveningwear bordering high fashion looks. Black interspersed with bright reds in dresses and gowns were the highlights. Payal Jain’s lineup of jersey and handloom silk dresses was pleasing to the eye as well. They were pretty, chic and high on wearabilty. Rocky S’ showing of Indian wear marked the end of the second day. Earlier in the day were also showings by Joy Mitra, Preeti Chandra, Tanvi Kedia (some pretty outfits) and Virtues by Ashish Viral & Vikrant.

I am still not sure about the new venue being the ideal one for a fashion week. While the show area, I must confess, looked pretty okay with its runway with extra length, the rest of the basic amenities coupled with a rather dusty surrounding area were kind of a put down even on the second day.

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Posted by Vinod Nair on Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 1:42 am 
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  • Lp_7

    Having seen the Eon it in detail along with the pricing, I would immediately say that Alto will still have its market. You mention that even “Maruti knows that Eon is better than the Alto” – why shouldn’t it be. The Alto design is more that 6 years old!! Wait and see the new Alto when it comes out in 2012. It will be better that the Eon. Just because the design of the Eon is so called “fluidic” in nature, does not mean it is superior to the Alto. Yes, it looks more modern (probably) – but as a prospective car buyer, I would still say that the Alto is my choice. I have driven the Alto and it is superb with a reasonable fuel consumption. I do not quite see the Eon out doing it in performance. Also, to my understanding, Maruti has quite few a tricks up its sleeve. Wait and watch.

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  • RajX

    It’s funny seeing an illiberal Islamist like yu talking about progressive citizens and liberalism. There is no end to your Islamist hypocrisy. Shameless.

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  • RajX

    Hey “vikram”, you want us to be friend with Pakistan? That Pakistan that sent people to attack Mumbai, the same Pakistan which conducted so many attacks on in Indian soil? Looks like you are more loyal to the ummah than to your country.

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  • RajX

    One of the best articles I have read laying out the challenges before the indian foreign policy establishment and their current state of lily liveried stupor.

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  • MSR Ayyangar

    A sensible article with the logic of power equations. Power begets respect and respect begets compliance. Power not shown is as good as absent. Politics of power is to exhibit but never use it. India has to learn a lot in mind control. But for that we have to break away from the slavery hangover that still persists.

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    Abu Ahmed Reply:
    February 20th, 2012 at 1:09 pm

    Only now do we seem to have some extra dough to be spent on counter espionage activities. How many countries in the world can afford to spend money influencing politics of ohter countries like the USA, once-upon-a-time-USSR and now China? Do they have a BPL population of say 500 million at least?

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    Abu Ahmed Reply:
    February 20th, 2012 at 1:09 pm

    Only now do we seem to have some extra dough to be spent on counter espionage activities. How many countries in the world can afford to spend money influencing politics of ohter countries like the USA, once-upon-a-time-USSR and now China? Do they have a BPL population of say 500 million at least?

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  • Impotent Rage

    I like your approach; did our leadership struck back after 2008? and you talk of striking at **** nukes? Do u imagine us to be Israel with the backing of the US and Europe?

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  • Impotent Rage

    I like your approach; did our leadership struck back after 2008? and you talk of striking at **** nukes? Do u imagine us to be Israel with the backing of the US and Europe?

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  • Abu Ahmed

    What Mitra envisages is the policy of developed and wealthy nations. The only remark I would make on Mitra is that he is living in a fool’s paradise, or USA’s Israel. If India becomes as powerful as Israel, that is be able to wag the dog, then much more can be done in the foreign sphere.

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  • engrich

    Palestians are lazy good for nothing people

    hassan the only thing i can say is that u are an ignorant man.palestanian are very hard working intelligent and productive people.

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  • engrich

    support their cause and take away the pressure from the facist Arab regimes of Kuwait,Saudi Arabia,etc

    they are welfare states not fascist.israel is apartheid fascist state voilated many uno resolution.they are the secret intigators of most of the voilence in the region.

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  • http://twitter.com/tweetamit07 amit choudhury

    good going….HT

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