fashion show- 'Inflation' dominates INIFD's in Nagpur

In a unique way to attract attention, fashion models walking the street wearing vegetables and holding banner against inflation at a fashion show held here on Saturday.

Budding fashion designers from the International Institute of Fashion Design (INIFD), Nagpur exhibited talents and skills in the fashion show, organized by the institute.

Accompanied by live music, clothes show on the catwalk remained faithful to the theme of inflation.

"Because of inflation we are facing many problems today. Student Designers have tried to present this through their creations. I hope that the students succeeded in conveying this message through fashion shows," said Alicia Raaut, one of the models in fashion shows.

In addition to the theme of inflation, the model also showed off the colorful costumes and other exciting designers designed by students.

Models walk the street including noted actor and model Zulfi Sayeed and Shawar Ali from Mumbai.

Luxurious fabrics and remarkable pattern is appealing to the fashion conscious and fashion lovers in the audience. Anita Agarwal

The History of Hats

Dorothy Parker once quipped, "It's a small apartment, I was almost not enough space to put my hat and some friends." Trends change frequently, but home is where the hat. Ever fashionable, hats and their wearers have evolved over time. From hats to a dignified erratic, bizarre to the practical, is an indispensable element of any wardrobe. Here are some of the more popular hat history:

Top Hats

Ever classy, ​​high top hat and matching flat cap distinguished formal air for all who use them. Cap on gaining popularity in the early to mid-1800s among businessmen and working-class men alike. Currently a top hat usually worn only on special occasions are very formal, or by a fashionista edge - male and female alike - like those who embrace the "Steampunk" aesthetic.

Fedora

Fedora is beyond the cap on the popularity of the mid-1850s onwards, due to easy wearability and cheerful line. What was at first a woman of fashion quickly embraced by the city-dwelling men everywhere, and fedora was very popular until the 1960's. There has been a surge in the number of young urban sport fedoras in recent years. The sky is the limit for what can you add to this fantastic hat, and it's fun to embellish your own fedora with a feather, buttons, pieces of lace and other bling.

Bowler Hat

Bowler Hat is also known as Derby Hat, Hats Coke or after the person who first commissioned in 1849, Edward Coke. A hat, made of rigid round hard felt, Bowler is one of the most popular hat in the Old West. It's still the choice for sport riding hat.

Cowboy Hat

Cowboy hats are used to just be a hat-perfect for the outdoorsman nonsense, such as rodeo riders or ranchers, who wanted to the first Stetson cowboy hat produced in 1865, and it has been popular ever "git 'er done." since. With a high crown and often breathe exterior woven straw cowboy hat is an option, roomy and comfortable windy that frames the face and provides plenty of shade at the same time. These days even the young "disco cowboys" and "disco cowgirls" can be found sporting a cowboy hat on a hot night clubs across the country, usually coupled with some type of reflective sunglasses and tight, tight pants.

Beret

Berets used to be the scope of the European continent, particularly France and Northern Spain, but today is a truly international fashion. You can even see the reggae-lovers and sports Rastafarian red, yellow, black and green crocheted beret neatly over their dreadlocks.

Pillbox Hat

Jackie Kennedy popularized this modern classic in 1960. With clean lines that prove its origins as a military cap, medicine boxes - with or without a veil beautiful - is cap sophisticated choice for women everywhere.

Novelty

Not just for Halloween anymore, Novelty Hats hats abound throughout the year. Each type of hat has been exaggerated, striped, colored, hairy, view, create glow-in-the-dark and much more. The most popular new caps including oversized sombreros, 5-gallon cowboy hat, and shiny or glittery top hats. The new hat is the perfect accessory to the top of the party clothes. And no matter

hat you choose, do not forget the sage advice of Frank Sinatra: "Cock your hat. Angles are attitudes." frankelcostume

Adrian: Silver Screen to Custom Label

Anyone who saw the young star on the silver screen cinema in 1930 is undoubtedly familiar with Adrian Gilbert glamorous design. A leading fashion and costume designers from the 20th through the 50's, Adrian creativity influenced the fashion world, all the way from Paris couture designs for the days of fashion worn by American women of the era.

The book 2008 by Christian Esquevin Adrian: Silver Screen to Custom Label provides a summary of year-by-year from ten years of designing couture and ready-to-wear fashion for private label apparel, as well as detailing the Hollywood costume design.

Born in 1903, Adrian Gilbert attended the New York School for Visual and Applied Arts and also studied fashion design in Paris. He designed costumes for some of the production, both in the U.S. and in France, before it was recruited by MGM studios as a costume designer.

In designing the costumes for more than 200 films, Adrian plays a role in making Hollywood glamor to the new center on the global stage. He had the good fortune to dress silver screen luminaries as Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Joan Crawford, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Garland, Lana Turner and many others. Adrian even designed the costumes for The Wizard of Oz - right down to Dorothy's ruby ​​slippers. His design became visible signatures of some trend-setting young Hollywood stars, such as bias-cut silk dress Jean Harlow and Joan Crawford's highly-customized, broad-shouldered suits. Unfortunately for Adrian and his fans, the first Academy Award for Costume Design is not granted until 1948, after Adrian has retired from designing costumes for the film. "When the glamorous ends for Garbo, it also ends for me," said Adrian, when asked his reason for retiring from the fashion world cinema.

After working in Hollywood, Adrian really struck out on his own, refusing to collaborate with other designers or hiring for its private-label couture designs. He also only allowed him a ready-made designs that will be sold at one store in each city, to promote their exclusivity. Nevertheless, a breakthrough design was widely copied in the market and even called "Adrian silhouette." At the high point of his success, Adrian salon in New York City and Beverly Hills. His private label enjoyed decades of success between 1942 and 1952. He retired to Brazil with his wife Janet Gaynor and lived there until his death in 1959. Today the name is not widely known as other famous fashion designers, but its influence is unquestionable, as the person responsible for bringing glamorous golden age of cinema to American women everywhere.

In this book captures the essence of Christian Esquevin Adrian greatness style in the beautiful descriptions and photographs of classic design. Covering the years 1920 through 1950, we see a luxury and elegance influential creations on screen and off. From the show-girl costumes for private label creation, all that is beautiful and deserves the perfect style of the great designers. frankelcostume

Women's Style

Women's Style: That '70s Style

Snowbound last weekend, we caught up on our Netflix queue with a handful of ‘70s classics -- a move that in turn had us yearning for the collegiate-cool style made legendary by Ali MacGraw as a sassy Radcliff co-ed in the iconic 1970 flick Love Story.

Women’s Style: The Style Student Shows Us One Vest, Three Ways

The Style Student (a.k.a. Nicole Loher) has a knack for injecting her fashion-school wardrobe with city flare. The FIT sophomore has built a reputation on inventive uses of classic menswear staples, flea market finds and that intangible, indescribable downtown cool. We put that talent to the test with the ultimate autumnal challenge: style our herringbone wool Alastair down vest for three different occasions: work, weekend and wild night out. Nicole, as you can see, passed with flying (jewel-toned) colors.

Rugby Tweed Run: And the Winner of our Best Dressed Female Contest Is ...

It's a beautiful woman! Thanks to Jamie Beck of From Me to You is cinemagraph rad and to capture the perfect moment of Tweed Run on Saturday.


Women's Style: Motorcycle Diaries

Every year at that time we fall back in love with the idea of the perfect leather jacket. You know the kind: rugged yet chic and loaded with authentic details, it looks as perfect with a floral dress as with jeans and tees. This is the jacket. rugby

Men's Style : Cold Case and Tartan

Men’s Style: Cold Case
Introducing the Cowichan sweater, your last bastion of non-bulky outerwear before parka season is here to stay.

Men’s Style:  Tartan
Tartan is as synonymous with Scottish heritage as the rolling highlands, bagpipes and, well, rugby. It’s also a major style statement this time of year. So in honor of plaid season, below we present you our brief history of the two most popular tartans: black watch and the Stewart. rugby

Menswear 1960's

There is a resurgence in the improvement of men's fashion during the early 1960s was influenced by Italian designers. Men's clothing became tighter fitting. According to formal recreation and single-breasted suit with short jacket and narrow adjustable collar worn with narrow collared shirt and thin tie became popular. Mods to prove that men do not care about the clothes they wear. This attitude allows the changes in fashion as a man decades of progress.

Narrow trousers worn by fashionable young people with the shoes 'of voters Winkle'. Replacing long hair crew-cut, but still slicked back with oil and gel. Become more respectable facial hair and sideburns became popular. Custom made to keep adjusting the tradition of men. Chelsea boots became fashionable.

In the men dress the late '60s became more luxurious and feminine. Men grew their hair, wearing a polka dotted tie width, wool flouncy shirt in neon colors and velvet bell-bottomed pants. Style 'peacock' dress became popular with men. Men dressed as a form of self expression or to attract women. Fashion designers strengthened their color and making tights for men in bright and bold, purple and orange, flower prints on velvet fabric combinations. Jewelry Collection launched for men. soliscompany

Fashion Collection-Burberry Prorsum

"Cheerful, optimistic, nostalgic" is Bailey's own words to a collection which ruled in favor of the digital age ... well, try this scenario on for size: A military wife, whose husband was stationed in the Far East, for example, to fill his idle hours by watching and learning from local artisans. Then he applied his new knowledge to apparel decorating themselves, perhaps with beads running down placket lined trench or collar, or a large wooden beads that form a geometric pattern around the neck, or raffia trim on the hood of my parka. And maybe he'll replace the buttons on a cardigan with a beautiful stone he found on the beach. OK, the scenario may be a luxury flight too far, but full of charming skirt fell to just below the knee showed a polite soldier's wife in ancient times. Crepe pleated dress in green leaves with a line flowing forty outlined on the theme. Sexpot in a basket of knitting sheath stretching also looked back. And Miss Sadie Thompson himself may have stepped out in Pago Pago skirts wrapped and tied in a batik print.

If the print looks good in harmony with the tastes of the season for ethnic exotica, Bailey insisted it was inspired by the shape of the legendary British artist Henry Moore. But, given that Moore was influenced by Picasso, you could say there no end to Africa. And the texture and pattern undoubtedly has the edge tribe. However, they are only means to end the latest Bailey: Burberry jacket lifted into the spotlight that has traditionally been occupied by the trench. It gets the full treatment, from the leather sleeve hems whipstitched to weave all the beads and raffia Burberry workshops can throw at it. And, thrown into bold block print ruched dress, with a bobble hat and raffia platform sandals with leopard wedges, jackets sashay confident of taking on the 2012 must-have. Tim Blanks