Ponds Ensemble Spring/Summer Collection May, 09″ held at the prestigious DHA Golf Club in Karachi. The outdoor venue designed to host a stupendous red carpet with beautiful gowns and Pakistan’s most loved celebrities on view; it was a captivating event with some extra ordinary piece of work by Pakistani designers including Kamiar Rokni, Maheen Karim, Rizwan Beyg and Sadaf Malatere.
With more than 10 top media channels covering the red carpet affair giving ample opportunity to take pictures and interview their beloved celebrities. Catalyst PR & Marketing and Ensemble invited enthusiastic …

Okay, women switched from dresses to pants a long time ago. Then they ditched the skirts for culottes. Now, the fairer sex has gone the distance and is sporting ties! Yes, the one piece of clothing that was distinctly male, is now also, well, part of the female wardrobe!
Arshiya Fakih attributes this fashion trend to the androgynous side of women. “It’s all about exhibiting ‘woman power’. There is a certain element of sex appeal attached to seeing a woman dressed in a slightly masculine way,” says Arshiya. Yet she warns …

She donned trendy mini skirts and a bikini in Dostana and was an absolute stunner on the ramp in Fashion, but Priyanka Chopra is going the de-glam way for Vishal Bharadwaj’s Kaminay.
“In terms of look, it’s definitely not glamorous. In fact, you don’t really see me wearing too much make up in the film,” Priyanka said.
Kaminay will be her first release of 2009 as a leading lady after a hectic 2008, which saw her featuring in six back-to-back releases - Love Story 2050, God Tussi Great Ho, Chamku, Drona, Fashion …

2008 wasn’t perhaps the best year when it comes to storytelling but it still had at least a few films that managed to work well with the audience. If there was an intense ‘A Wednesday’ bringing in wonderful results during those ‘90 minutes’, there was also a no-brainer like ‘Singh Is Kinng’ that went on to be one of the biggest grosser at the box office. Joginder Tuteja brings to you some of the best films that Bollywood saw in the year gone by.
10 - Jodhaa Akbar
After a false start …

2008 was a year when quite a few newcomers made a mark in their very first film. Actors like Anushka, Asin, Adah and Prachi Desai made a thumping impression while Genelia D’Souza saw a revival in her career with ‘Jaane Tu Jaane Naa’. Katrina Kaif got her hits but there wasn’t a single performance that could make the cut into the Top-10 of the year while big guns like Priyanka Chopra, Aishwarya Rai, Bipasha Basu and Kajol continued to reign. Joginder Tuteja looks at some of the best performances by …

Former Miss World Priyanka Chopra has established herself as an actress in Bollywood. In fact, she is one of the most demanded actresses around. The stupendous success of this year’s releases Dostana and Fashion has made her even more popular. However, she has been very reserved when it comes to her love life. This time around, she has been caught unguarded. She is ready to do anything for her boyfriend.
Yes, the grapevine is abuzz with the news that Priyanka is going to strip down to a two-piece in order to …

Mugdha Godse is thrilled with the kind of response she has been getting ever since Fashion released exactly a week back. Her phone continues to be flooded with messages while congratulatory calls haven’t stopped flowing in.
In fact her success story seems similar to that of the character played by Priyanka Chopra, who arrives from nowhere and goes on to be a supermodel. Though in real life Mugdha does have a supermodel tag to boast, on screen Fashion has turned out to be the first step that she has taken en …

Madhur’s best work till date
Rating: 3.5 out of 5
Starring: Priyanka Chopra, Kangana Ranaut, Arbaaz Khan, Arjan Bajwa, Sameer Soni, Kitu Gidwani and introducing Mugdha Godse
Director: Madhur Bhandarkar
Fashion begins in Chandigarh, where aspiring model Meghna Mathur (Priyanka) expresses her wish to go to Mumbai to her parents. While her dad (Raj Babbar) out rightly denies her permission, her mom (Kiran Juneja) is supportive. Against her dad’s wishes, Meghna leaves her house with dreams in her eyes to strike it big in the modeling world. But it is not a path of …

Sheikh Amer Hassan is a fashion graduate from the prestigious London College of Fashion and Bournville College of Art in England. Now living between Karachi, Lahore and London, he is one of the pioneers of fashion in Pakistan and famous as a designer, socialite and a social worker

I learnt so much about Jinnah during the making of my film Jinnah, the man of style shown on Indus Television on August 14, as my special gift to Pakistan and to our nation on its 61st birthday. It took me exactly eleven …

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 who designs for the ‘now’.
Hajra Hayat is known to design outfits that are ”wearable” as her outfits are always aesthetically pragmatic. Despite several innovations, in a show this Lahore-based designer held in Karachi recently, it …