Iridescent

Concept, Styling & Garments: Keshav Bajaj
Photography: Photography By Aman M

#Trending - Tangerine

For a colour that the fash frat has avoided for the longest time to avoid looking like a pumpkin, orange is finally having it’s day in the sun. Over the last few seasons, designers like Proenza Schouler, Miuccia Prada and Michael Kors have extensively been using this lush hue in their runway presentations. Even celebrities like Solange Knowles, Mary Kate Olsen and Lady Gaga have also been spotted in the most eye-catching of tangerine outfits. You too can imbibe tangerine into your wardrobe by way of tailored separates, or chic accents like an oversized patent leather tangerine coloured clutch or neon orange costume jewellery. The newly re-located multi designer store Kitsch(now at Defence Colony, right below Ritu Dalmia's award winning Diva) has many a chic tangerine options from the crème da la crème of international brands such as Dolce & Gabbana, Stella McCarteny and Alexander McQueen. Here, we show you how to stay on top of this trend without looking like an Oompa Loompa. Opt for simple silhouettes and pair with neutral colours. Pile on some statement accessories and you’re good to go!

White peplum blazer with power shoulders & straight fit tangerine pants – Alexander McQueen at Kitsch
Kitten printed 'Lita' Platform booties - Jeffrey Campbell

Dial M: Hitchcock's Femme Fatales

Concept & Styling: Vikram Hazarika Sharma
Photography & Post-production: Yinny Yangy Illusions

Mae Lookbook

Lookbook for Mae
Concept & Styling: Vikram Hazarika Sharma
Photography & Post-production: Yinny Yangy Illusions

Fifty Shades Darker: Part Deux

Concept, Styling & Garments: Vikram Hazarika Sharma
Photography: Photography By Aman M

Fifty Shades Darker: Part Une

Fifty Shades in the Sun - Goa Photodiary

Ever so often, comes along an experience that re-affirms your faith in humanity and gives you a new found perspective on life, going to Goa over new years' was sadly not one such experience. It partly had to do with the fact that it being my first time there, I had mammoth expectations and thought it was going to be a non stop party every where. Much to my disappointment it was not. Over the years I had come to view Goa as 'party central', owing to all the wild stories narrated to me by friends as well as it's projection in popular culture as a one stop shop for all things considered unsavoury in conservative circles. But as it turns out, much to the relief of morally upright forces, Goa is no different from other major cities when it comes to a night of unadulterated debauchery, the only difference being that most places in Goa have the beautiful Arabian sea as a backdrop to their (sometimes shabby) interiors. However Goa was not all bad! It is beautiful, extremely beautiful, and it's amazing how you can end up spending the entire day at the beach doing nothing(unless you consider 'people watching' to be physically or mentally exerting). The isolated pristine beaches of Candolim (North Goa) are ideal for spending countless hours just soaking up the sun and whetting your appetite by way of all the local and not so local delicacies made available by the countless beach front shacks. Goa is the perfect getaway as long as you have realistic expectations and a heartfelt commitment to some serious 'chilling'(read: getting roasted in the sun).

Street Style Decoded

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

"A long string of images held together with grace"

The 12th of August 2012, was a sad day for artists and art connoisseurs alike, as Prabuddha Dasgupta took his last few breaths and bid adieu to the world he had once captured beautifully through his camera lens. To call him a mere fashion photographer would be robbing him of his true credentials, that as an endorser and enabler of the human condition, taking photographs "where people could be people" and not cardboard cutouts of popular notions of perfection. I was fortunate enough to be witness to an evening kept in his honour where people(family, friends and people whose lives he had touched) spoke about him and paid their last respect. It was only fitting that the memorial was kept at the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi as Prabuddha had spent a better part of his youth living here, as his father was a sculptor who resided in the Gallery premises. Along with riveting speeches by the likes of Mira Nair, the night ended with a montage of Prabuddha's iconic photographs whose impact was further heightened by Leonard Cohen's haunting music. The evening also saw Prabuddha's daughters singing a heartfelt rendition of John Lennon's "Imagine". Prabuddha wanted his photographs to be "a long string of images (that were) held together with grace", and seeing the legacy he leaves behind, I can safely say that he's more than achieved that. They say that the good, die young. I couldn't agree more. R.I.P.

Photographs courtesy: prabuddhadasgupta.com

Grey

Delving into the murky waters of confused gender identities can always be tricky. What started out as a fun project during summer school in Milan by way of a designing an exclusive menswear magazine that catered to men who took a special interest in how they dressed, has turned into a full blown analysis into why certain men act the way they do, and what it means to march to your own beat in the 21st century whilst holding your head up high and coming to terms with why you do what you do. Taking on the subject of "Schizophrenic Sexuality" for my final term project in menswear is proving to be an interesting challenge, one that is helping me in my own journey to self discovery.

La Dolce Vita

picture courtesy: Rhea Baweja

It's funny how a few days in an alien town can change your perspective on things. Being in Milan for a summer course, did just that, and so much more! Italy, ever since the days of the Renaissance, has been the hub of all things art and culture, with a special emphasis on design. The italians take great pride in their appearance, and I could easily see why their sartorial sense would be any street style photographer's wet dream. The Italians are un-apolegetic about their way of life, so much so that a large chunk of their population are more than comfortable conversing in only their mother tongue,not feelng the need to equip themselves with the unmatched benefits that the English language would avail them. In today's times of identity tussles, we could surely take a page out of their book and proudly wear our individuality on our sleeve and desperately hold onto any raw fleeting emotion that feels inherently 'real'!













On a side note, inspite of having been sporadically updating this blog for the past 2 years, i'm still quite not comfortable with the idea of posing for the purpose of displaying personal style by way of pictures and the certain douchey connotations I think it has. Now don't get me wrong, in no way am I hating on the personal style bloggers out there! Complete respect and kudos to those who can pull it off, but you've got to admit that posting pictures of oneself on a regular basis is a tad bit narcissistic! I wish there were a better way of letting people in on our style, taste, etc. and basically have them see what we're all about. Oh wait, there is, through pictures(not of ourselves, but of the stuff we own and the things we do), our writing (that can in many ways say so much more about a person than a photograph) and just the compilation of things that we absolutely adore! So before my statements get any further paradoxical, I shall shut up and see ya'll in my next post!