Artist Piet Mondrian inspires Indian fashion designer

October 6th, 2009 MUMBAI - Talented people from Northeast are making their presence felt in various professions. Among them is fashion designer Imchatsung Imchen from Nagaland, who dazzled the audience with his collection at the Lakme Fashion Week held in Mumbai recently.

September 19th, 2009 MUMBAI - Models sashayed the ramp in vibrant colours at the ongoing Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) for fashion designer Anita Dongre's collection especially designed for the upcoming festival season. Dongre presented her maiden label 'Timeless' and showcased folk feel of Rajasthan in traditional ghagra-cholis and traditional drape sarees made from velvets and intricately woven silks and glittering brocades.

July 1st, 2009 Fashion designer crashes car into Calif. storeSAN DIEGO — A celebrity fashion designer has crashed her car through the front window of a hardware store in San Diego, injuring a customer inside.

May 16th, 2009 MUMBAI - ENM, India's premier full-fledged electronic news monitoring agency, has released its Fashion Week report. The report is a minutely detailed report of the three most happening events of the fashion Industry in India, i.e., Lakme Fashion Week, Wills Life Style India Fashion Week and Delhi Fashion Week.

May 4th, 2009 MUMBAI - Young budding designers from the BD Somani College showcased their collection in their annual festival 'Silhouettes 2009' in Mumbai. Renowned fashion designers Vikram Phadnis and Shaina NC also ventured in the show as judges and to encourage the young designers.

April 4th, 2009 KOLKATA - A saturday afternoon crowd at the KOlkata Fashion Week was treated to a stunning collection from designer Anjana Bhargava. Bhargava presented modern clothes, immensely wearable, in silk, pashmina, chiffon and wool.

April 2nd, 2009 KOLKATA - The inaugural Kolkata Fashion Week opened Thursday with Bangladesh's international model-turned designer Bibi Russell showcasing her 'gamcha' (stole) and natural fibre collection. The designer displayed 41 of her creations made from khadi, cotton, silk, jute yarn fabrics, tribal fabrics, natural fabrics and 'jamdani'.

April 1st, 2009 MUMBAI - Fashion designer Anamika Khanna showcased bridal-wear at the grand finale of Lakme Fashion Week here last evening. Models sashayed the ramp in Indian traditional drape sarees and lehnga's for Khanna's collection.

March 28th, 2009 MUMBAI - Fashion designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee showcased his Fall/Winter 09 collection at the ongoing Lakme Fashion Week here last evening. Sabyasachi's collection was like a storm of Indian traditional designs.

March 27th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Hollywood actress Gwyneth Paltrow is gearing up to turn a fashion designer with a 70's enthused clothing line, as she has teamed up with French label ZOEtee to create their autumn winter collection called ZOEtee's Loves Gwyneth. The clothing line will include masculine-tailored pieces, reports Us Weekly.

March 27th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Top fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir has sued troubled singer Courtney Love for defamation, claiming that the rocker has been trying to ruin her business. Dawn filed a case against Courtney in L.A., claiming that she has been defaming her by spread lies about her on her own website, calling her "an a**wipe nasty lying hosebag thief", among other things, reports Contactmusic.ccording to Dawn, Courtney has been plotting to destroy her, and spreading the false word around that the designer sold cocaine, was a drug addict, a prostitute, a thief, and a "horrible lying bitch." Dawn is also suing for invasion of privacy, according to TMZ.com.

March 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prevalent despair in the society due to global meltdown and other current trends inspired fashion designer Raghavendra Rathore's Autumn/Winter collections at the ongoing India Fashion Week in New Delhi. The dark mood wsa reflected in the attires, which the designer presented at the show.

March 12th, 2009 MUMBAI - In the run up to the Wills Fashion Show, noted fashion designer Anita Dongre used Bollywood star Raveena Tandon as a model for her new collection titled "Timeless Speaking". The star took part in a hectic photo shoot in Mumbai on March 10.

February 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Designer Nitin Bal Chauhan chooses dark themes for his clothing range that he says are inspired by human suffering, conflict and pain because 'this is the reality'. A painter and a filmmaker too, Chauhan now plans to switch completely over to art which will help him speak his mind.

January 5th, 2009 LONDON - British actress Sienna Miller is to make her debut as a designer at the London Fashion Week (LFW) to be held next month. 'We are so excited.