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 …

Don’t get surprised if you spot the most stunning model of the town at the modest interior of PIVIC Saddar arguing at the absence of Roshan Ara Begum rather than rocking in frenzy at some lazy number of Beyonce Knowles at a trendy elite party. The popular Nawab Sultan of Umrao Jaan Ada, IMRAN ABBAS in person too seems to belong more to the oriental Moghul era with a refined sense of aesthetics rather than today. Don’t get surprised; just reaffirm your faith in the age old maxim that appearances …

Pakistani teenager Mohammed Salim joins the crowd waiting at one of Karachi’s cinemas to see the blockbuster Indian thriller Ghajini — Bollywood’s biggest grossing movie ever.
The action movie starring Aamir Khan and based on the Hollywood film Memento spins a complex tale of a man with amnesia who tattoos himself and takes Polaroid pictures to remember people and places.
“I loved this movie, not just because it was made in India but because we don’t produce such quality stuff here,” Salim said afterwards.
Just a year ago, the screening would not …

How would you introduce yourself to our readers?
Salam, I am Munib Nawaz, a fashion designer, a tv host and celebrity style consultant.
Tell us a bit about your background; family and education?
I was born in Lahore and went to Aitchison College there for my early education. I went on to get my BBA honors in Marketing from CBM, Karachi. I was more of an introvert in school, but very involved in sports and literary stuff.
How and when did you get into designing?
Quite randomly, I designed some shirts for myself and got …

The issue of legalizing homosexuality has led to heated arguments in the corridors of power in New Delhi, but that hasn’t stopped a Pakistani gay from professing his love for an Indian man.
A middle-class accounting student from Lahore, who founded a website called ‘Pakistan Gays’ two years ago for homosexuals, says he is in love with an Indian man he met on the Internet.
Yet he harbours no hope of living in a gay relationship in either Pakistan or India where homosexuality is illegal and tolerance for gays low.
“It is difficult …

Sheikh Amer Hassan, the designer and host of many of those social starry nights, was found dead in his apartment on Saturday morning. The man who loved to have his pictures spread out on the weekend tabloids would never have thought that his last would be the one attached with his obituary.
The news of his shocking murder hadn’t hit the headlines before it began doing the rounds of the closely knit fashion industry, shocking people out of their beds, much too early on a Saturday morning. People had just met …

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 …

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Other than the fashion shows doing periodic rounds, the biggest newsmaker in the industry was the breakup between two design and/or retail houses.
Perhaps the one industry that has managed to withstand and survive the sociopolitical drama that the country went through in the past year is the fashion industry. The activity within the industry may have suffered a momentary setback due to the imposition of emergency in the country and after Benazir’s assassination, but it bounced right back on track soon after. The fashion shows that were held off were …

The Jami we know from various commercials and videos is broody, elusive and has some phenomenal projects to his credit, like Pal Do Pal, Chaye Chaye, Ankhiyan, Chal Dil Mere, Dhanni, Anjaane and many more. The Jami we don’t know is the man, who likes to speak up his mind, digs movies, is laid back. We take a peek on the other side of this director’s fence.
How does it feel to be known as the best video director in Pakistan?
I’m trying to enjoy it. Because when you’re at the …