Bips In Booties!

Ms Bipasha is already way ahead of the trend in place (Read: Booties are IN!!), rocking in a pair of booties while attending the Vogue-Olay brunch.


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And if you are wondering how to find one for yourself, here are some options for y'all to rock this fall! Go ahead..feast your eyes and pamper your feet!


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Blue Velvet

Wow.. Everywhere I look.. all I see... gentlemen wearing velvet blazers!

Velvet is a good choice..but someone please tell these men to stay away from these funky colors and designs! What happened to the good old black velvet blazer?


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P.S. I am convinced Karan Johar practices his poses in front of a mirror!

The Olay-Vogue Brunch

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That's Preity Zinta looking mighty fine at the Olay-Vogue Brunch at Umaid Bhawan Palace, Jodhpur, carrying a beautiful, droolworthy Hermes Birkin bag in an absolutely gorgeous shade of green! Pardon the cliche, but am envious, 'green' with envy, what else?!! (Ok, so her bangs are annoying but she's carrying a Birkin for goodness' sake!)


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And then there were three. Rahul Khanna, Gauri Khan and an unidentified lady in the middle. Gauri Khan looks totally washed out but its the lady in the middle that caught my attention, you see what she's carrying? Thats a Bottega Veneta tote.


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Bag heaven.

Manish Arora's Technicolor World

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Manish Arora's collection: An absolute riot of colors. Kitschy. Pop influenced. Over the top. Technicolor swatch card. Loud. Quirky-glam. But the verdict? Thats yours to make!


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More Of That Ikat

Look what Madeline Weinrib has done with Ikat. I absolutely love the furniture and the pillows that she has designed!



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And how much fun is this Ikat pillow with a pop-spin giving it that unusual print!





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On an aside, Ikat is a style of weaving that uses a dyeing process similar to tie-dye before the threads are woven, to create a pattern or design. Ikat means "to tie" or "to bind" in the Malay language.

India, Japan and several South-East Asian countries have cultures with long histories of Ikat production (among other things), and Double Ikats can still be found in India, Guatemala, Japan and the Indonesian islands of Bali and Kalimantan!

In fact, a Double Ikat from Gujrat, used to be exported to Indonesia for the use of the royal families. And if you were to look, the striking similarities between Double Ikats produced in Bali, Indonesia and those in Gujrat are hard to miss.

Oh, and the Double Ikat from Gujrat? Also known as Patola. Ring a bell?

Weaving a small world after all?

Anything you can do, I can do better?

Was Mandira Bedi thinking that if Malaika can do it, Mandira can do it better?

I think you and me both agree! That is a BIG NO!!!!!!


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Piggy Chops And Then Some

Thats Priyanka Chopra at an event where she had to meet the Spice Mobile Contest winners!

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Two questions though, one, was she given a brief stating that since the background was going to be predominantly blue, she had to wear it too, and second, has Bollywood patented the side-swept hair look?

And that ill-fitting dress, oh my goodness! Had I been one of the contest winners, I would have run for the hills! That dress just added a tire or two!

Miss Piggy Chops needs to have a long and hard talk with her stylist.

The IT Fabric: Ikat

The absolute new IT fabric is Ikat, influences of which I saw on Fall 2007 collections, specifically like in those of Armani and Balenciaga, pictures of which you can see below!

Left: Armani Fall 2007 --- Right: Balenciaga Fall 2007
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The Ikat fabric trend or Ikat-like print trend is going to go strong well into next year and you just have to look at the collections of Bruce Spring and Jenny Kayne for Spring 2008 Ready To Wear, to see what I mean...

Left: Bruce Spring 2008 Spring---Right: Jenny Kayne 2008 Spring
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Marchesa Spring 2008

Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig's Marchesa, Spring 2008 ready to wear collection, was influenced by the British Raj, a fusion of Indian and Victorian England culture, and you only have to look at a few pieces to see inspiration seamlessly transferred onto elegant cocktail dresses and red carpet winners!

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I absolutely loved it. For more go Here

Preity Repeats!

What was Preity thinking wearing a similar looking dress twice to two major events!

Here she is at the Vogue India launch party wearing a Surily Goel dress with a silver belt.(Not a big fan of the belt!)


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Except, look at the dress she wore to the premiere of "The Last Lear" at the Toronto International Film Festival!


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What do y'all think?