When cool weather wearing sweaters or long sleeve tunics over leggings, dress up your outfit by Adding interesting bracelets. Choose from geometric resin bangles or gold and enamel heavy looking pieces That Play Well with other heavy textures.
Jul 30, 2011
Jul 28, 2011
Golden Bangles
The bangles are a decorative ornament that women across India-Pakistan have been wearing for centuries. In fact, the bangles have a great socio-cultural-religious significance in Indian and Pakistan history and culture. This is because literature has glorified this ornament to make it the epitome of feminine grace.
Besides all this, bangles have a very traditional value in Hinduism. As it is considered inauspicious to be bare armed, Hindu married women are always wearing some bangles around their wrists. Today, the modern day women may not wear bangles with their daily attire, but only on occasions and festivals. This is because to them, bangles have a very sentimental value. In fact, to the Hindu woman, bangle is not only an ornament, but also an important part of womanhood and honor.
Bangles are made of many materials including plastic, glass, metal, kundan, lac, beads, black metal, silver and even gold. They are found in different colors, designs and different shapes too. Of course, the most durable of these bangles is the gold bangle, and the least durable, glass bangles. This is why many women prefer wearing gold bangles for day to day life and glass bangles for special occasions.
There are different ceremonies connected with bangles in India. In the south, Valaikaappu is a ceremony that is performed in the seventh month of pregnancy. This is when a woman is adorned in the family way, using bangles. Glass bangles of all colors and varieties are stacked on the woman's wrists on this function. Once this ceremony is complete, the woman goes to her mother's place for delivery.
In Gujarat and Rajasthan, the bride's mother has to gift the bride a pair of ivory bangles. It is only on wearing these ivory bangles that the bridal couple can perform the 'saptapati'; without the bangles, this ritual cannot be performed. (The saptapati is the seven steps that are taken around the fire, without which no Hindu marriage is considered complete).
Married women in Bengal have to wear the iron 'kada' (bangle) or 'loha' as it is commonly called, to signify marriage. In addition to this kada, the bride is presented with white conch bangles that are beautifully crafted and red lac bangles.
Vizag is an area in India that has a close association with bangles. This is because Makavanipalem, a small village near Narsipatnam is a place that was once bustling with bangle making, enticing skilled workers from all over India. Though this business had stalled momentarily, today bangle business runs briskly in all stores of Vizag. You find a great volume of business in a variety of bangles being conducted here everyday.
Shravanamasam is the Hindu month that falls between August and September and is the month where maximum Hindu festivities are conducted. This is also the month that sees maximum sales in bangles all over India. So it can be seen that bangles have been, and will always have an important part in the lives of Hindu women. It is a symbol of their feminity, tradition and pride for being a Hindu woman.
Jul 24, 2011
Strenesse Blue Spring\Summer Collection 2012
The great name in fashion weeks, Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week is back from 6-9 July, 2011 but this time in Berlin that is becoming new fashion metropolis in Europe. Presenting numerous fashion designers with their elegant designs it will be an enticing fashion week probably.
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin Spring/Summer 2012 is aimed to infuse true spirit of fashion worldwide with each design and pattern being unique and captivating. The timeless trendiness displayed by fashion masters is now going to enthrall new center of fashion Berlin.
Berlin is becoming a growing fashion community in Europe where many big fashion brands, fashion agencies and fashion houses have set business and in turn made it a fashion capital just like Milan, Paris and London. It contains feasible environment for fashion uplift providing fashion creators a big market and opportunities to flourish. Berlin has nine fashion schools with about 800 young designers residing and working. There are about 60 fashion events connected with the Berlin Fashion Week that all are given importance by Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin and the Premium Fashion Fair.
Being an attractive fashion market in Germany, Berlin drives thousands of international dealers, buyers, presenters and viewers to it that play a helpful economic role as well. The title sponsor of the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin Spring/Summer 2012 is the Stuttgart-based automaker who has also been sponsoring Mercedes-Benz Fashion Weeks in Stockholm, Malta, Russia and New York.
The schedule of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin Spring/Summer 2012 is as:
Day 1, July 6, 2011: Wednesday-the fashion designers scheduled to showcase their collection are: Diesel, Michael Sontag, Rebekka Ruétz, Karlotta Wilde, Lena Hoschek, Escada Sport, Celiaczerlinski, C'est tout, Dimitri, Basler, Strenesse Blue, Augustin Teboul, Kostas Murkudis, G-Star Raw and then Mercedes- Benz and Vogue Fashion Night.
Day 2, July 7, 2011: Thursday- the fashion designers scheduled to showcase their collection are: Maxi Fashion Breakfast, Perret Schaad, Laurèl, Vladimir Karaleev, Eva & Bernard, Green Showroom, Lala Berlin, Wood Wood, Hugo, Austrian Fashion Design, Mongrels in Common, Patrick Mohr, Schumacher, Burda Style Cocktail, Allude, Rena Lange.
Day 3, July 8, 2011: Friday- the fashion designers scheduled to showcase their collection are: Sebastian Ellrich, Romanian Designers, Marcel Ostertag, Hannes Kettritz, Michalsky, Kilian Kerner, Iris van Herpen, Anja Gockel, Malaikaraiss, DSTM, Stefanel, Frida Weyer, Blacky Dress.
Final Day, July 9, 2011: Saturday- the fashion designers scheduled to showcase their collection are: Irene Luft, Mariusz Przybylski, Minx by Eva Lutz, Stephan Pelger, A.F. Vandevorst, HTW Berlin, Hien Le, Dawid Tomaszewski.
To promote young fashion designers participating in Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin Spring/Summer 2012 a fashion talent award “Designer for Tomorrow by Peek & Cloppenburg Duesseldorf” is also being held on July 6, 2011 Wednesday. Marc Jacobs and jury will be the partisan of the “Designer for Tomorrow by Peek & Cloppenburg Duesseldorf award”.
Jul 23, 2011
Summer Collection 2011
Summer is considered to be a season of assuaging color combination; for the Pakistani designers. As on one hand it promotes creativity and innovation and motivates of the idea of creating a distinctive line in their relative market, and on the other one they try to promote the modest form of the designs as summer tends to be a season of soothing colors coalesced altogether in an affluent manner. Normally it is seen the fostered philosophy of to wear well, and wear affordable.
An exclusive range of sundry products has been introduced in the potential markets of the pertinent designers and a good outcome of it is seen so far. As the practical anticipation is to opt a concentration strategy that enables communication at a niche level; Salina Wardah has brought a wide range of lawn, chiffon and Swiss voile with the simplest and appealing designs and her venture truly is an ambassadorial act towards being the season specialty. Flaunt of the entire range signifies essential fashion components i.e. color combination, design and embellishments. Usman Buksh, on the same side joined Salina, and introduced vibrant collection of exquisite designs under the stream of cotton, lawn prints and dupattas, enriching these with beautiful embroidery technicalities.
Maria B lawn too, securely is a true art of feminine style that certainly has an eye catching range of glorious designs ranging from comfy zone to articulate piece of art works. Sana and Safinas Lawn has been launched, adding to these; with exclusive eye catching designs that really are appealing and are appreciated, and is a delicious treat for this summer season. Stylish and eye catching designs with a blend of a wide contrast color range, is surely one of the best collections of this summer. Sonya Batla Lawn collection 2009 is a glamorous range of modern color prints with opulent eye catching softness and truly an indication of modernism. Similarly, adding on to these, Gul Ahmed lawn 2009, ever enchanting as before satisfies every niche and micro aspect of the summer strip in the market where it has exclusive designs and prints to offer.
Recently Lajwanti launched a fashion show which proved to a foretaste of the offered upcoming ranges. And further they displayed an array of various products, e.g. sleeveless shirts, sarees, capris, to stylish sherwanis. And hats off when Hassan Shehryar Yasin, who understands the market in a unique and innovative way, launched their exclusive summer/spring 2011 collection and upon arraying during the pertinent fashion show in Dubai. This zone of him offers the customers a mélange of lush pure fabrics in concoction with the symbolization of whites, beiges, and muted monotones; leading a step ahead towards a modernized grace.
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