MUMBAI — The Lakme Fashion Week summer-resort shows appear to be seeking differentiation this year, which is evident from the schedule and from events taking place. “We’re curating the thought a lot more,” Saket Dhankar, head of fashion at IMG-Reliance. The fashion week, which started on Wednesday and will run for five days, is organized by beauty brand … Read More →
It is crunch time in a Calgary basement. Two engineers, a singer with a background in neuroscience and a retired doctor who dabbles in dressmaking are putting the finishing touches on a dress that reads minds. Well, sort of. Angie Coombes, a Calgary singer-songwriter with a background in neuroscience, is the driving force behind this project to … Read More →
Sunday, almost one month after the end of Paris Fashion Week, brought glorious springlike weather and coincided with the 40th Paris marathon — as well as Azzedine Alaïa’s fall show. The designer is apparently as impervious to time as a mountain range. See-later, buy-later seems to be his counterintuitive slogan. And yet he drew a full … Read More →
The indefinite strike by jewellers since March 1, across the country to protest the excise duty of one per cent proposed in the union budget, has hit the artisans the worst, most of who are from Bengal and are returning home with no earnings. Seen as the hub of gold and diamond jewellery, the striking … Read More →
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who arrived in Belgium on March 30 for a day-long visit, personally welcomed members of the Antwerp World Diamond Centre’s (AWDC) board of directors. AWDC is the umbrella organisation for the Antwerp diamond industry. Belgium is one of Europe’s top three trade partners with India, and is the second-largest exporter … Read More →
Chinese jewellery art brand HMR recently showcased its products at the Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week. It was the first mainland Chinese brand to display its products in a China Fashion Week,People.com.cn reported. HMR’s catwalk show, entitled “Transcending Time & Space,” showed off dozens of artistic jewels inspired by classical Chinese poetry, philosophy and folklore. The … Read More →
The Antwerp World Diamond Centre (AWDC) recently expressed its sincere gratitude for the many messages of support and solidarity from diamond organisations around the world after the tragic attacks in Brussels on March 22. Among the many organisations that sent their condolences to AWDC and Belgium were the World Diamond Council, World Federation of Diamond … Read More →