Lakhme Fashion Week - Manish Malhotra

I am a huge fan of Manish Malhotra's designs - love the colors he uses and his color pairing is unparalleled. I expected something more from Manish than his current showing, and I am sure these ladies did too.


From L to R : Sophie Chaudhry, Asin, Sridevi, Manish, Anushka and Deepika

Take a look at these pictures and I will explain why I am so disappointed with the collection.

These clothes are nice - but they are not Manish Malhotra nice - do you know what I mean? Where is the drama, where is the wow factor? You could buy this stuff at any Indian store. And what is with the cutouts in the peach chudidar - nasty man. And to top it all off he used Genelia and Tussar ( or whatever his current name is) as show stoppers, why? Why do this to yourself?

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Butterfly Effect

The Poonawalla's had their Millennium event and so obviously my fav socialite and a very preggers Natasha Poonawalla was there.

While I love the Alexander McQueen dress that Natasha is wearing, I think the ensemble is an overkill with the matching Alexander McQueen butterfly hat and the Lieber butterfly clutch. A defi overkill.

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For $25

This halter handkerchief dress seems to be a very popular style in Bollywood. I first saw it on Amrita Arora, then on her sis Malaika, then on a host of TV starlets. This dress is available in almost every souvenir store at touristy places in Florida for about $20-$25.

BTW - please do not pick this brown and yellow combo.

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What????

I am not understanding this outfit that Nisha Jamwal has on. Is it a strapless dress with a matching stole on one shoulder or a one shouldered jacket? And the shoes ugh...........

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You like?

Kareena is the spokesperson for Anne French. Here she is in a blue maxi dress.

Personally, I like the blue color on her, the bunch of silver leather flowers at the neckline and the uneven hemline of the dress. Let me know if you like this look on her.

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Toga outfit

At a press conference for the movie Blue, Lara Dutta just stood out. Nobody notice either Kylie or Akshay ( well I have to admit his silver loafers did get my attention) Her dress is absolutely fantastic and to die for. Right from the work on the shoulder to the belt down to her shoes, Lara is picture perfect. And she has the height and body to carry off this outfit. 2 thumbs up.

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At the reception

So finally all the festivities relating to Amrita's wedding have ended. What started with sangeet hosted by in laws to the church wedding, to the mehndi, to her own sangeet, then nikah and finally reception.

The biggest star turnouts were at the church wedding and Amu's own sangeet. Comparatively there were fewer star appearances at the reception. Here are her pics.

Nice outfit, but like I said before I have not been blown away by anything Amu has worn on any of her occasions.

I guess after seeing Malaika's outfit at the sangeet, I expected more from her reception outfit. I have to say, I am a tad bit disappointed with this saree. It is very ho-hum. The color is very blah and the waist band and armlet, really don't add to the whole pic. What I absolutely love though are her pink opal and diamond chandelier earrings. So unusual and soooo drool worthy.

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Amu's Sangeet

Amrita Arora had her sangeet ceremony a day after her Church wedding. Scroll down to see if the ladies fared better in this round

MISSES

Very Dull and insipid. Katrina for some reason has been dressing and looking rather depressed. Dunno what's up with her.

Horrible saree. Very bad. I know our desi girl Priyanka Chopra can do a lot better than this.

What is she wearing? Socialite and dress designer Nandita Mathani (and Kareena's Kapoor's husband's ex wife) is wearing a bizarre outfit. It looks like a dupatta draped as a saree on a strapless dress............

This has to be the worst outfit I have seen Twinkle wearing. It has a deep front slit dress worn over leggings with a dupatta added to Indianize it. Wow, creativity at its worst!!!!!!!!!!!

Again very unimaginative. Karisma is wearing what looks like a dress borrowed from the wardrobe of her '80's movie.

HITS


The bride and groom look good together. While I like what Amu is wearing I don't think what she is wearing is spectacular. It is along the lines of expected wear.

Both Suzanne Roshan and Gauri Khan look nice just by virtue of being draped on SRK's arms. Defi better than the others.

Amu's BFF Kareena looks great. She looks more like the bride than Amu herself.

This in my books is spectacular. The bride's sister Malaika looks stunning in her red lehanga and jewels.

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The other star wife

Suzanne Roshan also attended Amrita's wedding, minus her hubby (just like Gauri Khan)



Both the star wives wore long dresses to the event but I prefer Suzanne's Roberto Cavalli dress over Gauri's Missoni one. Also I think it was a great idea to add a matching stole on the dress. But the question is, was the stole trying to hide a bump in the belly??? hmmm.

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Bridal party

I am sure all of you were curious to know what the Maid of Honor, Malaika Arora Khan and Bridesmaid, Kareena Kapoor wore for Amrita's wedding. Well take a look

I really didn't care for any of the bridal party dresses, but when have they ever been great?? I am glad Kareena had a hit of orange to the otherwise dreary color. Hers looks the best and so does she.

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Church wedding

We have seen tons of pics of our Bollywood stars dressed up to the nines in heavy lehangas, sarees and jewels for traditional wedding ceremonies and receptions. So it was real interesting to see them in a different avtaar - dressed up for Amrita Arora's church wedding.

The bride looked nice dressed in a traditional white lace wedding gown.

Brides maid Kareena Kapoor's beau Saif Ali Khan walked in with her sister Karisma.

Katrina Kaif was dressed very simply in a floral print maxi and minimal makeup.

What is wrong with Gauri Khan these days? And I am not just talking about her real dull Missioni dress. Her face looks all puffy and she has major bags under her eyes. Too much partying maybe? Gauri's sidekick Maheep Kapoor, walking two feet behind, is dressed in what looks like a Pucci dress.

I think our stars need more practice in dressing up for non-traditional weddings? Do you agree?

Source: Viral Bhayani; filmicafe

They are still wearing sarees

While most of the women attending the Filmfare awards this year were wearing gowns or maxi's, the hottest women there were wearing sarees. Take a look

I am pretty sure that is a Manish Malhotra saree Kareena is wearing. She looks gorgeous but the saree is truly nothing out of the ordinary.

Bipasha is wearing a Sabyasachi saree. Dunno for some reason I don't really care for the saree or the bikini top blouse she is wearing, but Bips does look great.Another Sabyasachi saree. From what I can see, it looks great. I have always maintained that Aishwarya looks best in a saree.

This saree minus the clip at the hip and the awwwwwwful necklace might have looked ok but altogether - disaster.

Though beige is sometimes a hard color to pull off, Deepika's saree looks nice and sparkly and I think she carries it off well too.

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What a honor!!!!!!!!!

Sonam Kapoor is the first Indian actress who had a dress designed and sent for her by Chanel. Sure other actresses have worn Chanel before but they bought their own dresses or others like Freida Pinto have had their stylists talk to the house for them. But no Indian actress before has been directly approached by Chanel and has had them offer to design and send a dress especially for her.

Take a look at Sonam dressed in the Chanel outfit at the Filmfare Awards 2009.

I love the simple off shoulder sheath dress in beige. I abso love the way Sonam has dressed it up. With nice chunky uncut diamond bracelet and earrings and spectacular hairstyle decorated with jewels. So elegant and classy. Cheers.

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Make a statement

So Kylie Minogue is visiting India. She is in Mumbai shooting with Akshay Kumar for a movie. I think they are working together on a song recorded by her.

When she landed in Mumbai, Kylie was invited for lunch to Akshay's house.

Kylie is dressed in typical Hollywood style - sporting all current trends - Aqua colored dress, gladiator heels, big sunglasses etc. Twinkle is dressed more formally than Kylie. Like the combo of shirt, jeans and statement necklace. BUT - while I love the necklace and the yellow shirt, I think she should have worn some other pair of shoes and not worn the big gold watch or gold belt. It might be a bit too much gold.

Akshay - what was he trying to do??? Match his shoes to his wife's shirt??? shudder.

Source:Bollywoodhungama.