Archana Kocchar Sarees

KBJ group Fashion Show by designer Archana Kocchar at Sahara Star.

I like the vibrant colors and the shape hugging design.

ahhh… sheer saree blouse sleeves again

Well, when something is trendy, everybody and her sister in law wants to do it.

This is from the 16th Annual Star Screen Awards.

little glitter never hurt anybody

OK, that is not completely correct, but I do like this saree. It could be the right saree for the right occasion.

From Swati at www.swati.us

Tarun Tahiliani saree with a belt

HATE the belt in this saree with passion. Why would you ruin a beautiful saree with unflattering belt like this?

Tarun Tahiliani saree with a belt at Colombo Fashion Week 2010.

Glass Tissue Saree and sleeve less saree blouse

Nice saree and interesting sleeve less blouse.

I have mixed feelings about the sleeve less blouses. The problem is that there is the pallu to contend with, so the full effect of being sleeve less is lost and at times, with the pallu covering the blouse, it just seems that you are not wearing any blouse.

This is also a issue with the spaghetti strap blouses, but not as much.

An interesting feathered saree

I like it because it is different. I got to find out who designed this one.

Trying to understand the feathering of the pallu – not even sure if the feathering is the right word to describe this or not.

I’ll update the post when I have more info.

Silk saree with ipod and speakers built in the border – swaramadhuri

‘Swaramadhuri’, a ‘singing’ silk saree embedded with eight micro-speakers on its border, has caught the fancy of many traders down south. Conceptualised by P Mohan, a small-scale designer of Dharmavaram town in Andhra Pradesh’s Anantpur district, the saree has a small iPod at the pallu, which can play as many as 200 songs continuously for four hours.

A 2-GB memory chip is used to support the iPod on the saree. Mohan toiled for two months to come out with this unique design and now the unusual piece has generated a lot of interest and curiosity among silk traders in South India.

B Datta Shiva, the entrepreneur who has purchased the rights of the saree, said “orders are pouring in from showrooms in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh for the supply of the attire.” “It took nearly a month to make one saree. Ten members of our unit continuously worked and finished it,” Shiva said.

The same designer had earlier created sarees with small LED bulbs which he calls the ‘lighting saree’. He had also made silk sarees using sandalwood.

“There is a great demand for the sandalwood saree. We get orders from all over the south. But due to time consuming process, we are not able to meet the demand,” Shiva said. For the saree, Mohan claims he uses pure sandalwood purchased from a Karnataka government-owned emporium.

Source Hindustan Times

Chandigarh Fashion Week -Saree

Just hate it when these “event organizers” do not feel the need to update their website before, during or after the event. What a waste!

Here is a saree from Chandigarh Fashion Week, may be. It doesn’t say, the picture could be from 2009 Chandigarh fashion week. If you go to the website, it is like the event never happened.

I am generally in favor of having these fashion week events in different cities. I think it raises awareness of fashion – I am all for it.

The only thing worse than the organizers not updating their website is the designers not updating the websites! Jeeze…