Karachi Fashion Week is a completely integrated showcase, aimed at encouraging increased collaboration between the fashion design industry & manufacturers. Karachi Fashion Week 2010 being organized from 31st January – 3rd February, 2010, is Pakistan’s platform on International Fashion Week circuits joining Paris, Milan, New York, Sydney, London & India.

This is a platform which encourages the business of fashion, awareness of fashion and infuses new and fresh talent in the industry.

Pakistani models displays creation of local designers Saeeda Zuberi, Umar Mansoor, Yasmin Arif, Ishtiaq Afzal, New port fashion school, Sadaf Rameez & Indus Institute during the Karachi Fashion Week.

Here are the highlights of karachi Fashion Week day 1 for you.

Pakistan’s First ‘Mothers Expo & Conference 2009′ is being organized by ‘Campaign’ and ‘Crafters Tec’ in collaboration with Women Development Department of Sindh on 30th , 31st October & 1st November 2009 at Expo Center, Karachi.

Mother Expo is a Premiere event showcasing pre and post-natal products and services ranging up to the age of five. Mother Expo brings together a diverse selection of buyers and exhibitors directed at the maternity, infant & toddler and the growing family markets.

The exhibition aims at highlighting the role/respect of mother amongst people and also raising awareness in mothers regarding their responsibilities in order to play their better role for development of the society.

The event will raise awareness, as well as it will provide entertainment.

Gear up all the people of Karachi for shopping specially woman.  The First Thematic Ramadan & Eid Festival will showcase all household and consumables goods under one roof at Karachi Expo Center from Sat, 05 Sep 2009 To Tue, 15 Sep 2009. The exhibition is a dedicated consumer event aimed at helping companies capitalize on the market buoyancy during the festive season. This is an annual event which is being organized by E- Commerce Gateway Pakistan Private Limited.
Highlights
Shopping Festival, Declaring Pakistan as the Halal Kitchen of the World, …

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Fashion designer Nida Azwer brought to Karachi’s runways an exclusive solo fashion showcase at the Marriot, introducing the brand’s Prêt a Porter, Haute Couture and Bridal lines to a packed audience of fashionistas, designers, high society and media, to much acclaim. Themed “A Curious Mind”, Nida Azwer endeavored to take the audience from one spectrum of creativity to another. This being her first solo show, Nida looked to play with a variety of techniques and designing including hand-craft, bead-work and screen printing. Her central idea behind this was to blur the …

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 …