Against all odds, Pakistan Fashion Week hit the ramps in Karachi on Wednesday. The four-day event has been rescheduled twice due to security concerns, but that hasn’t dampened the creative energy driving the participating designers and models. Over 30 Pakistani designers – including giants such as Sonya Battla, Rizwan Beyg, and Maheen Khan – are [...]

Hajra Hayat isn’t out there to create a bang or hoopla. She isn’t one of those to stick out a feather, expose a leg or come up with crazy colour combinations just to attract attention and establish herself as a fashion ”visionary” simply because she’s also not a fortune teller – she is a designer [...]

Many designers specialize in cut, but very few have Kamiar Rokni’s penchant for a “Perfect Finish” to a garment. Although just 27, the 5’8 pixie-like Lahorite is raising industry standards with the bold color combinations and perfect detailing of the creations arising from his and partner Maheen Kardar’s fashion house Karma. The multi-talented Libra designs, [...]

Hassan Sheheryar Yasin is your typical Scorpio, determined, magnetic and brainy with a wide gamut of hidden talents. He talks a mile-a-minute and can speak on an array of topics from politics to art to movies, all with equal passion and conviction. Choreographer, fashion designer and event coordinator, he wowed Bridal Asia this past summer [...]

Nabila has a gentle presence, hardly the intimidating façade you would expect a person with her fame and popularity to have. In a way, she is larger than the celebrities she deals with. Her credibility comes from almost 20 years of hard work. The architecture and interiors of her salons are testament to her philosophy: [...]

In a historic fashion, business and diplomatic move, Faiza Samee, the Pakistani designer who once dressed former prime minister Benazir Bhutto for her wedding, has begun retailing in Delhi, the first ever for a Pakistani designer in India. Samee, who will be selling at the Carma fashion boutique in Mehrauli, has even made saris for [...]

Here come winter ladies and many of you would say thank God for that, since summer seems never ending. So will it be a fun month or is it going to be a shivering one? For Karachities it is more of a party time as there are lots of weddings taking place and then there [...]

Old is gold and new is bold. Bold enough to bowl you over with everything that they do. And they do like no one can do. Here is a great tidal wave of young fashion gurus and divas that has stormed our fashion industry shores… Rocking a lot of boats and changing the scenery of [...]

It was chaos at the lower level of the Dolmen Mall where people were anticipating the opening of a designer wear shop. What made the event exclusive, was the fact that it was the opening of a renowned television actress Sadia Imam’s shop and not just another designer wear shop. The invitation stated the time [...]