Anita Dongre Indian Fashion Desinger Information

Fashion has always been very intrinsic to Anita, right from those formative years; let it be dressing up her favorite doll or the most gorgeous actress.

“Fashion is all about elegance, style, comfort and attitude. It need not be loud, it need not be outrageous, need not be changing drastically every season, but definitely attuned to the culture and the mood of individuals. Fashion has to be expressive, eloquent yet leave room for interpretation of the individual.” Says Anita.

Anita Dongre has been a part of the Indian fashion industry for nearly two decades. She entered the world of fashion immediately after schooling. A passion she always wanted to pursue. She liberated women from the straitjacket of traditional tailoring and introduced them to the pleasures of casual chic. Anita is not a woman given to flamboyant emotionalism. In this reflects, physically and by temperament, the clothes that she has so expertly tailored right to the last cut.

Anita also had a short stint as a teacher at one of the reputed fashion schools in the country; she currently is a mentor to two of the best fashion schools in the country.

Anita designs clothes for both, bollywood celebrities and royalties. Some of her bollywood clientele includes Urmila Matondkar, Esha Kopikar, Sameera Reddy and the likes but it does not stop there. She is also a favorite among her international customers. She has also won awards internationally for her ingenuity in design and creation. She has also lent her creativity to movies like My Brother Nikhil & Bas Ek Pal.

“Fashion is never vulgar; it’s continuously evolving, not just according to seasons but also cultural conditioning and is always subject to interpretation of time and thought.”

Source : Anita Dongre

Top fashion designer robbed

Internationally famed SA fashion designer Peter Soldatos has been robbed of irreplaceable garments which were to be worn by the finalists in the upcoming Miss SA pageant on December 8.

Dubbed the ‘X-factor’ designer of the 1970s, Soldatos and his innovative designs are adored by the likes of former Miss South Africa 1975 and Miss World Anneline Kriel, Liza Minelli, the late Liberace and Nana Mouskouri.

On November 17 while asleep at his home in Parkwood, Johannesburg, unknown suspects entered Soldatos’s in-home studio and made off with a total of 28 garments from the 1960s onwards.

Two garments were later discovered in the driveway along with the coat hangers of the missing gowns.
No signs of forced entry were found, leaving Saldatos to describe the occurrence as “macabre.” No other items were missing besides the “glamorous, full-length beaded gowns.”

The Miss SA pageant approached Soldatos to become involved in this year’s pageant, which is celebrating its 50th year golden anniversary. To be showcased are the five decades of fashion. Other designers involved are Marianne Fassler, Gideon, Gerrit Pienaar and JJ Schoeman. The pageant would have seen the various works of Soldatos over a period spanning 50 years, a bitter loss Soldatos is now having to come to terms with.

“Some of the garments that were not going to be used in the pageant would have gone into the fashion museum to be archived and to help future fashion students in their studies,” Soldatos told The Citizen.

The items can be replicated, but according to the couturier extraordinaire, the sentimental and historical value is irreplaceable. An era of fashion history has been lost to crime.

Soldatos has been greeted with acclaim in North America, Europe, Africa, Hong Kong and the Czech Republic to name but a few.

“I have always been very outspoken about fashion and believe in what I do,” he commented in response to a question on his success as a couturier.

Source : http://www.citizen.co.za/index/article.aspx?pDesc=53277,1,22

Indian top fashion designers Information

Indian Top Fashion Designers List :

- Abraham & Thakore - Indian Fashion Designer
- Abu Jani & Sandeep Khosla - Indian Fashion Designer
- Anita Dongre - Indian Fashion Designer
- Anjana Bhargav - Indian Fashion Designer
- Anju Modi - Indian Fashion Designer
- Anuradha Vakil - Indian Fashion Designer
- Arati Monappa - Indian Fashion Designer
- Arjun Khanna - Indian Fashion Designer
- Ashima & Leena - Indian Fashion Designer
- Jattinn Kochhar - Indian Fashion Designer
- Jatin Verma - Indian Fashion Designer
- JJ Valaya - Indian Fashion Designer
- Ranna Gill - Indian Fashion Designer
- Monisha Bajaj - Indian Fashion Designer
- Wendell Rodricks - Indian Fashion Designer
- Payal Jain - Indian Fashion Designer
- Lina Tipnis - Indian Fashion Designer
- Mandira Wirk - Indian Fashion Designer
- Rohit Bal - Indian Fashion Designer
- Neeta Lulla - Indian Fashion Designer

Monisha Bajaj Indian Leading Fashion Designer

Monisha Bajaj is one of India's leading light in couture. A fashion designer who is focussed in her design style, Monisha is a synonym of under- played chic. One of the most versatile member of the couture boundaries and find a place for her design internationally.

For Monisha, fashion is all about belonging to an aesthetic idiom. Borrowing inspirations from elements that go with her own innate style and creative disposition.

Essentially a classicist she brings in the thrill of experimentalism too into her design. Fine detailing with heritage fabrics, the use of embroidery for textural enhancement and the crafty use of silhouettes that are functional yet feminine, Monisha creates fashion with a strong flavour. Her textile story is luxe. Her colour statement is varied with the binding force of Bajaj's colour palette being the art of mixing bold with soft and neutral colour sense is innovative yet moulds well to classical forms.

It was in 1996 that Monisha Bajaj launched her own label after a successful career abroad working in the Contemporary Design Department of the store Fashion Destination. Since then Monisha has show- cased her collections in shows all over India and abroad.

Source : Monisha Bajaj

Ritu Kumar Indian Fashion Designer

In the late 1960’s India was going through profound changes; plastics had replaced mud, brass and silver; factory produced papers and woods took the place of sophisticated handicrafts and nylons displaced an ancient heritage of cotton and silk. It was not only a battle between tradition and modernity; it was also a confrontation of lifestyles and values.

During this time, a small group who had benefited from unique opportunities of study and travel began to see the depth of the craft and design heritage of their own country. They discovered that India was a reservoir of delicate skills.

In an attempt to merge their international experiences together with the skills of their people, they became aware that contemporary designers must revitalize their own roots and identity. This was essential to take Indian creativity out into the world in such a way that benefited both craftsmen and the modern consumer. This scattered group, including Ritu Kumar was to become the country’s leading designers of the buildings, garments, fabric and accessories.

Ritu began with hand block printers and two tables in a small village near Calcutta, and since then Ritu’s team of dedicated workers have progressed to produce some of the country’s most exquisite garments and accessories in cotton, silk and leather. These ranges embrace both traditional textile crafts and the lineage of Indian design. Over the centuries, traditional skills that had been lost have been revitalized and this has enabled the craftsmen to continue working in their own environment. Ritu has pioneered the term ‘fashion’ in the Indian context, and more importantly, has demonstrated that hand made products can be as profitable and even more glamorous than those made by machine.

From humble beginnings forty years ago Ritu became the first woman to introduce the ‘boutique’ culture in India under the brand name ‘Ritu’. Today she has outlets in all over the country, retailing under her traditional brand.

In 2002 Ritu Kumar, joined by her son Amrish, launched a sub brand – Ritu Kumar, LABEL. LABEL uses the established forte of traditional Indian design and converts it into a fashion oriented international product. This is aimed at the young, global Indian woman with a contemporary lifestyle. LABEL retails from most Ritu Kumar stores as well as some stand alone stores.

In a bid to bring the specialized design collection into the main stream and appeal to a younger generation the Ritu Kumar brand has designed costumes for a few films, high profile stars such as Aishwarya Rai, Sushmita Sen, Lara Dutta, Priyanka Chopra, Diya Mirza, Diana Hayden, Celina Jaitley, Tanushree Dutta, Neha Dhupia, Since 1994 till the present date of 2006 Ritu Kumar has also been designing the wardrobes comprising swimwear, eveningwear, traditional Indian wear, casual wear, formal evening gowns; of the three winning Miss India’s , for their participation in International Beauty Pageants (Miss Universe , Miss World and Miss Asia Pacific respectively ). An impressive number of winners have emerged from these contests putting India on the beauty map. Some of the winners have won awards for the Most Outstanding Evening Gown and the Best National Costume. Internationally style icons such as late Princess Diana and Jemima Khan have patronized Ritu Kumar’s outfits.

Her book “Costumes and Textiles of Royal India” published by Christies in October 1999 chronicles the history of India’s royal patronage to textile arts down the centuries starting with the historical context of Mohenjo Daro to the present era. A definite and exhaustive academic as well as fashion history which has become a reference book in India.

Source : Ritu kumar