Remember the days of HDIL Couture Week that used to be held in Mumbai? Well, it was for the first time that a couture week being held in the country when this event started a few years back. And it unfortunately went as quickly as it came… now there is no news of it… boom and it vanished. Read more

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Posted by Vinod Nair on Sunday, September 9, 2012 at 1:14 am
Filed under Fashion · Tagged Bollywood, Delhi Couture Week, Fashion, Fashion Design Council of India, FDCI, Glamour, HDIL Couture Week, hindustantimes, India Bridal week, J J Valaya, Shahab Durazi, Tarun Tahiliani
For long a man never got his due when it came to style… or substance. If it came it did in separate ways… either business or style, or something else.
Then came the GQ Men of The Year Awards three years ago. And it did as a breather for men not with substance, but with style as well. Read more

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Posted by Vinod Nair on Saturday, October 1, 2011 at 9:20 pm
Filed under Fashion · Tagged Alex Kuruvila, Bollywood, Che Kurrien, Conde Nast India, Fashion, Four Seasons Hotel, GQ Men of The Year Awards, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Kumar Mangalam Birla, Latin American Luxury Conference, Mumbai, Sao Paulo, Shah Rukh Khan, Vinod Nair, Yuvraj Singh
Alright, we have seen many stars (rarely A class but surely B, C and D class), either walk the fashion runway during fashion shows or come in big numbers to lend support to the designer and sit on the front rows and cheer and applaud when the collections are presented. Read more

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Posted by Vinod Nair on Saturday, August 6, 2011 at 5:34 pm
Filed under Fashion · Tagged Armani, Bollywood, fashion shows, fashion weeks, Grammy, Gucci, hindustan times, news, Prada, red carpet, Vinod Nair
Can you imagine. even this morning when I opened my newspapers, I saw many photos of celebrities with captions stating the brand of the outfits, bags and shoes they were wearing. Read more

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Last week I was at the exhibition of Anish Kapoor, the world-famous India-born British sculptor both in Mumbai and Delhi. Read more

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Posted by Vinod Nair on Saturday, December 4, 2010 at 6:52 pm
Filed under Fashion · Tagged Anish Kapoor, Art, artists, Bollywood, delhi, Hindustan Times Luxury Conference, India, India-born British sculptor, Louis Vuitton, luxury, Mumbai, Paris, world-famous, Yves Carcelle
It’s that time of the year when the front row fights begins. Last week I was at the Lakme Fashion Week and there too I saw the so-called self-declared celebrities scurrying for the front rows. Read more

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Posted by Vinod Nair on Saturday, September 25, 2010 at 6:27 pm
Filed under Fashion · Tagged Being Human, Bollywood, bombay, celebrities, Designer Manish Malhotra, designers, Fashion, film industry, front row, HDIL India Couture Week, Karan Johar, Lakme Fashion Week, LFW, Salman Khan, Varun Bahl
It was only the other day I read about the stylists and how they make the stars in Bollywood shine better. No doubt, it’s these stylists who go around sourcing clothes and accessories for the stars right from the movies to red carpets and ribbon cuttings and other such public appearances.
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