The German celebrity and the supermodel, Heidi Klum has invited the displeasure of the Hindu leaders in America by dressing up as Hindu goddess Kali for a Halloween party. Her husband, singer Seal, dressed up as Indian mythical character, Angulimaal, at the party thrown in New York by Klum herself, and attended by many celebrities.

According to a website report, the leaders are demanding a public apology from Klum, for posing as a sacred figure in a party. Indian-American community leader Rajan Zed said: “Goddess Kali is highly revered in Hinduism and she is meant to be worshipped in temples and not to be used in clubs for publicity stunts or thrown around loosely for dramatic effect.”

She is a filmmaker with a degree in theatre and religion from Mount Holyoke college in New York. She works out of offices in New York City, Santa Fe, and Lahore. Her goal is to create dialogue through the movies she produces, both within the Muslim world, internationally and especially the USA. Her first feature length film, Kashf is set to hit theatres nationwide on the 15th of December.

Date/Time/Venue: Saturday, August 16
6:30pm-10pm
Mansion (530 W 28th St) ( www.mansionny.com/media )

Performers: More info below

Tickets: tickets (<=click here, through Paypal)

Charity website: www.yourdil.org (non-profit)

On August 16th, Youth Outreach Developments in Literacy (YOUR DIL) will present “Rock the Tabla,” a benefit concert extravaganza at the exclusive Mansion club, at 530 W. 28th St in New York City.
Featuring: Zerobridge, Shobha, The Tabla Guy (Gurpreet Chana), and Jungli LIVE IN CONCERT!
Tickets are available for purchase at:
http://www.yourdil.org/ny/tabla/

Performing Artist Details:

This Saturday, November 17, Pakistani design heavy weights Nickie Nina and Kamiar Rokni participated in one of Lahore’s premier charity fashion events, ‘9 women’ , held by the Lahore Grammar School Defence Campus in honour of the Depilex Smile Again Foundation .

This was a charity fashion event with a difference. The event concept required active participation from an exclusive panel of Lahore ’s top designers who personally trained students in design, cut, silhouette, colour, manufacture and retail over a period of time. The culmination of this training for Nickie Nina was exemplified at the show in its ‘Motherhood’ segment where Nickie Nina’s student trainees showcased three of their own creations inspired by the glamorous design duo on a ramp modelled by fellow students along with one original Nickie Nina number modelled by Iffat Omar.

Nickie Nina showcased a preview of their collection for Pakistan Fashion Week at Lakme India Fashion Week in Bombay, to much acclaim. The show was held on the auspicious occasion of the religious festival of Eid on the 14 th of October. Nickie Nina’s designs were presented to a 700 strong audience including the likes of Fern Mallis , VP IMG and an institution at New York Fashion Week . Anil Chopra , VP Lakme Lever leant his support to the Pakistan Fashion Week preview show along with journalists from Vogue India and Elle India .

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum presents Karkhana: A Contemporary Collaboration, on view through March 12, 2006. Karkhana: A Contemporary Collaboration will feature a series of works by six contemporary Pakistani artists: Aisha Khalid, Hasnat Mehmood, Muhammad Imran Qureshi, Nusra Latif Qureshi, Talha Rathore, and Saira Wasim. The exhibition will be open to the public from August 21, 2005 through March 12, 2006. A reception for the exhibition will be held at The Aldrich on Sunday, October 16, 2005. Karkhana has been organized by Jessica Hough, curator at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum; London-based independent curator and writer Hammad Nasar; and Anna Sloan, a writer, curator, and historian of Islamic and South Asian Art at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts. This exhibition will travel to The Asian Art Museum in San Francisco from August 4 through November 5, 2006 and Asia Society, New York in 2007.

Almost six feet in height, Shanaz Siddiq has to safeguard her reputation. She is the designer that the world-famous crystal people, Swarovski of Austria, handpicked out of the other Pakistani designers. This was in 1998, when the company wanted to introduce its ‘hot-fix’ crystals that could be used to embellish Pakistani clothes.

Shanaz opines that although fashion in Pakistan is still evolving, there is a need to go into the international market and network with foreign designers.

Mike Myers has never been furrier than in The Cat in the Hat.

Note that we didn’t say funnier. Just furrier. Even the hairy-chested, wannabe-ladies’-man Austin Powers wasn’t such an attraction as the feline star of this cinematic hairball.

Like The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, an earlier holiday season’s Dr. Seuss adaptation, The Cat in the Hat is long on visual dazzle but short on warmth, and the humor is excessively raunchy for a family film. But also like The Grinch, The Cat’s snazzy look may be enough to make the movie a box office hit.

Yes, it’s now official. The pioneers of rock music in Pakistan, Junoon, have ‘fired’ their leading bass guitar player Brian O’Connell, setting the entire future of the band into uncertainly. Although the rumors of the split had been around for quite some time, the situation became obvious when during a press conference in the mid of last July, Salman and Ali both vehemently avoided any questions regarding the status of their former band mate. In fact, Ali got so infuriated by a fellow journalist’s persistent questions regarding Brian’s health that he almost yelled ‘ Aap uss say khud phone kerkay kion nahin pooch laytay?[Why don’t you call him up and ask for yourself?]. The final nail in the coffin appeared when a cheery Salman Ahmed announced the inclusion of Mekaal Hasan as a ‘special guest on bass’ in all their upcoming gigs.

LONDON (AFP) - Irish clothes designer Paul Costelloe opened London Fashion Week with a collection of pastel creations inspired by the Hollywood movie “Far From Paradise.”

He said his new lines were based on the film starring Julianne Moore because of its 1950s feminity and pretty colours.

Some 50 designers, from Katherine Hamnett and Paul Smith to a posse of up-and-coming talent, are sending out their new pret-a-porter collections at the London event.

Over five days, top names like Pringle, Nicole Fahri, Jasper Conran and Betty Jackson will be showing alongside smaller houses including Ghost, John Rocha, Gibo, Sophia Kokosalaki, Preen and Eley Kashimoto.