Cravings 2012: The Fashion Horoscope
To a certain degree, we all love predicting the future. Astrology has always been the enigmatically veiled business that draws, attracts, and often flourishes for those bestowed with a penchant for it....
View ArticleLookbook Legacy 3: Let your Clothes Tell a Story
Why celebrate a birthday, when you celebrate the entire month? April is birthmonth for me. Follow the hashtag on twitter, tumblr, and instagram to catch my eats and adornments of the month! I’ve always...
View ArticleOut-of-Hand Observations 4: A Future of Juxtaposition
The future ticks past us as the present strides forward. There is little we can do really, but watch. Watch the watch as it ticks forward. Many designers, enthusiasts, geniuses and creative folks have...
View ArticleA Touch of Quirky 1: Pomegranate and Curry Fixation
I have spoken many times of how the world feeds our eyes. Daily. However, there is a reason we have multiple senses in addition to our visual prowess. Taste being one of them. The lick of delectable...
View ArticleA Touch of Quirky 2: Feel Hot, Wear Hot
Heat waves carry more than just heat, intolerance, vacations, and news. They carry inspiration. Temperatures soar in the summer. The sun licks my skin with its hissing tongue. The fiery air rekindles...
View ArticleMeet the Women outside the Tents at NYFW
Ah fashion week. A bi-annual source of existence for a growing herd of fashionists thriving and multiplying in metropolitans worldwide. When you think about why fashion week happens, you fall into an...
View ArticleThe Rugged Terrain of Chocolate (plus rivers of Booze)
Chocolate and I. We define inseparability. My relationship with the chocolate show goes back many years when an equivalently obsessed chocoholic-by-life-and-dentist-by-profession took me to this...
View ArticleThe Fortune of Food in 2013
Trend hunting is my favorite sport. Fortunetelling is an aspirational hobby. Eating is a desired pastime. So… let’s combine them. As I’ve said before, trend-hunting is slowly but surely becoming a...
View ArticleWhat to wear with what you are wearing
“How did it get late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before June. My goodness, how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?” Oh the lessons we learn from Dr. Seuss....
View ArticleThe Fortune of Fashion in 2013
Some call it astrology. Some call it diva-magic. Others just pretend to ignore it. While others craft the clever marketing. Fashion trends are not folklore or make-believe, but living and breathing...
View ArticleFrom Runway to Wardrobe: Wearable Indian Menswear
How many times has something that has raced across the runway actually bolted right into your wardrobe? The unanimous answer is barely ever. Yet finally, I saw designs in a fashion week that are...
View ArticleFrom Runway to Wardrobe: The Ethnic Whiff
From poetry to swirling fabric, or anklets to metallic embroidery, the art and craft side of India has always been one that has inspired and enthralled me, exponentially more over the recent years when...
View ArticleFrom Runway to Wardrobe: Electrifying Fusion
I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t fall for something quirky. With a disheveled streak. Some say my vocalization of disheveled is a synonym for psychotic or psychedelic. After sharing the dapper menswear...
View ArticleBirthmonth: A time to create history
April is my birthmonth. For why celebrate only a day, when inching towards the day itself, everything seems enchanting. And the days after are spent recovering from liquid infusion or at the gym...
View ArticleTreasures of the Luxury Sail in the Persian Gulf
To think it started as a sail rising from the ocean, like the birth of a new era, or the dawn of a sinking ship. Yet, being the Persian Gulf in all its opulence, it was actually the enigmatic structure...
View Article7 ways to keep it Tasteful and Stylish with Stars and Stripes
Come July, retailers and bakers are equally stocked with red, white, blue, striped, starred collections that literally blow up into your face – shoes, bags, cupcakes, frostings, cookies, tees,...
View ArticleLookbook Legacy 4: 10 tees every guy should have
Is fashion really just an induced epidemic? I’ve often wondered, considering my affinity towards shopping, and exploring a shopaholic’s mind. What’s the first thing you come face to face with in a guy?...
View ArticleSpotlight Day: Trend Watching in Beauty
What’s a better sport than trend watching? Perhaps none. Beautypress hosted a gala event of editors meeting beauty brands in New York, where I was also invited, and subsequently fascinated by the...
View ArticleSparkling Midnight Menswear at New York Fashion Week
Amidst the ruffles and lace and wedges and sparkle of fashion week, it’s always nice to see a sliver of menswear dedicated designers. And one can only hope of the day when menswear and womenswear...
View ArticleBright and Breezy Menswear at New York Fashion Week
Between the sequins of starry nights and the sheer of sun dripping mornings, I oscillate with my tastes, but more often than not, borrow the stars and sparkle them in the day. So to sum it up, I like...
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