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Sobia Nazir’s lawn exhibit opens today

Sobia Nazir’s lawn exhibit opens today

Fashion Fraternity

Sobia Nazir is working her way up the fashion fraternity. It is hugely important for a designer to be regular with their output of new stuff, and she is. Apart from her clothes, she is very regular about her lawn exhibitions.

This year, her lawn collection is called ‘Fine Line’ and her press release defines it as “a unique collection of myth with a blend of nature… an inspiration from ‘fine art and life’.”

This year they are more elegant than her out and out funky, psychedelic retro ’70s lawn that made such an impact last year.

At her show at PFDC Sunsilk Fashion Week, she was perhaps the only designer who incorporated lawn into her collection, making formal tunics with metallic silver running past bare shoulders. It was what Sana Safinaz had done with luxurious silks for their Ensemble shows last year. Most women won’t go for that in our conservative society, but they can have a piece of Sobia Nazir lawn and stitch it as they will.

Musicians come out and show their support for fashion at PFDC Sunsil Fashion Week 2010

Musicians: Overload, Hadiqa Kiani, Sonu the Dangerous, Meesha Shafi, Nouman Javaid, Ali Zafar, Strings, Fawad Khan

Overload: The show kicked off on the 16th with the first collection being by Nickie & Nina, and as the collection made it to the ramp Overload performed their insanely amazing songs to a cheering audience.

Hadiqa Kiani: Hadiqa made her much awaited and much talked about appearance on the ramp, first for the designing duo of Asifa & Nabeel where Hadiqa looked stunning in the red one shoulder Asifa & Nabeel number. Then on Day 3 Hadiqa walked for Ammar Belal’s collection titled “The King of Pop”. Hadiqa came down the ramp as the Show Stopper in a controversial gold corset dress with a short messy wig for the MJ tribute collection.

Lahore takes to fashion week runways

Lahore Fashion Week

LAHORE: After the success of the Fashion Pakistan Week held late last year in Karachi, the Pakistan Fashion Design Council (PFDC) started its first fashion week in Lahore on Tuesday.

The event was held under tight security at a venue not advertised due to security reasons. Those present at the event included film actor Shaan, actresses Juggan Kazim and Iffat Omar, VJ Anoushey Ashraf, designers Ammar Belal, Maria B, Kamiar Rokni, Hassan Shehryar Yasin, Sadaf Malaterre, stylist Tariq Amin and head of the council Sehyr Saigol among others.

The week aims at commercialising the fashion industry of Pakistan and promoting local craftsmen and embroidery.

The event began with a performance by Overload with their lead singer Meesha Rehman. The designer duo Nickie Nina opened the show with their collection inspired by Swati embroidery and design. The common theme in their clothes was grey and white embroidery on colourful garments. Actress Nadia Jamil was the final celebrity that walked the ramp for Nickie Nina.

Hadiqa Kiani to walk the ramp at PFDC Fashion Week

Hadiqa Kiani to walk the ramp at PFDC Fashion Week

Hadiqa Kiayani

Hadiqa Kiani is branching out in a big way, reports Koolmuzone. As we have already mulled over earlier, Hadiqa is taking her love for all things colourful and daring to the next level by heading a salon, La Sinature, in Lahore. However, Hadiqa will once more dip an experimental toe in the glittery pool of fashion by reprising her role on the catwalk. Basically, after a show she walked for last year which she thoroughly regrets now, Hadiqa will be walking at the PFDC Fashion Week. Suddenly all some of us want to do is fly out to Lahore for a minute to watch Hadiqa being showstopper on the day.

Oh, did we not mention that? Hadiqa Kiani will be showstopper for designer duo Asifa & Nabeel. Hadiqa, who is very good friends with Asifa, has deigned only to be showstopper for them, while she may or may not be walking for HSY as well.

Fashion: Flaming orange on the border

Flaming orange on the border
Between love and hate, there’s fashion.
Will politics learn from it?

Aamna Haider Isani
Outlook India

Fashion & Article

Almost every Indo-Pak cultural relationship walks the thin line between love and hate. Indian films are adored, but all hell breaks loose if one takes an anti-Pakistan slant. Cricket matches between the two  generate huge excitement, but a defeat leads to torn-down billboards and burnt effigies. Cricketing ties turn sour when the ipl decides to keep out Pakistani players-and love for Shahrukh Khan soars to an all-time high here when he defends Pakistani cricketers on TV.

Amar Shows Off Her Passion For Fashion

Amar

Amar may still be an unfamiliar name to some, but she is definitely making it big on the Urban Desi music scene right now. She has worked with superstar producer Timbaland on the song “Bombay,” which was featured on his album “Shock Value. And the sexy songstress is definitely one hot Urban Desi chick with style!

When we asked Amar about her fashion inspirations she told us “I’m not really hooked on any one designer to be honest as I have always and will generally shop for clothes that I think are to going to fit well and look good on me, and I won’t necessarily veer towards one particular designer.”

So we wanted to take a closer look at her sense of fashion. Check out our favorite pics here and tell us what you think!

Fashionweek: A fashion week to call our own

A fashion week to call our own

Karachi Fashion Week (KFW) finally arrived after all the hullabaloo and controversy, riding high on the shoulders of local and international designers, silencing both critics and competition who turned their nose at the idea of an ‘outsider’ making inroads into our fickle fashion industry.

Indeed, even fashion scribes were in low attendance and the aisles were full with people one didn’t regularly come across at upscale fashion bonanzas. For once, it was a welcome change.

Day One of KFW opened with UK-based designer Omar Mansoor who has been making waves in Pakistan and especially Karachi, wowing all and sundry with his exquisite western line with just the right amount of bling and fluid cuts. With interesting patters and colour palette, it’s no wonder the name Omar Mansoor is reverberating in the right fashionable corridors, fast becoming the darling of the movers and shakers of the local fashion industry.