You love them, you hate them but you can’t ignore them. The rains are here. With pitter-patter rain-

drops falling on your heads, it’s time to pack away those stilettos, leather shoes, transparent tops and pastel- colored shirts. Outcome those wa-terproof sandals, capris and colorful umbrellas. But if you thought that rains are synonyms with dull and boring outfits and accessories, then you are mistaken. All you need to do is jazz up your existing wardrobe by cutting, folding and coloring your outfits with elan. .

1. Fabrics: Starting with the need of the hour i.e. wearing light fabrics on days you could get drenched. Go for something lighter and airy. Chiffons, malmals and georgettes will be life saviors in the rain. They’ll dry in minutes and you will want to get wet in the rains over and over again!

2. Cut it short and hot: Cut it short and enjoy the rains better! Pick out a pair of your old denims if you just can’t quit them. Cut them short into hot pants and flaunt your sexy legs while you play in the puddle of muddy water. Also, try colorful, bold printed Capris so that you can save the hassle of tidily folding your pants every time it begins to rain.

3. Cuts and silhouettes: Asymmetri-cal tunics and dresses are a hit this season. Vibrant ombre-dyed kaftans are also a great option. The silhou-ette should be clean, the cut should not have too many layers or too many tailoring details that make the

garment look messy and untidy. Wear simple shirts and kurtis that are easy to wear. Well-cut dresses with short hemlines are very apt for monsoon clothing. Substitute your long dupat-tas with soft cotton scarves as they are easy to manage and more likely to keep you warm.

4. Colorful Leggings: If you’re run-ning out of shorts and capris to wear, leggings is another great option that you can pull on for a comfortable yet fashionable rainy day. Colourful, printed leggings are in vogue, and they will no doubt make you stand out from the crowd on a dull rainy day.

5. Elegant Drenched Coats: Nothing is more irritating than being splashed dirty water on by vehicles that pass by when it’s raining. But that won’t be a problem when trench coats are here to save the day! These lovelies look best when matched with a pair of classy gum boots. There’s nothing else in the world that can protect your clothes from that heavy rainy day but this definitely can.

6. Chic Gum Boots: To be able to cross the dirty puddles on the roads without dirtying your feet, gum boots are absolutely necessary. Just one beautiful pair and you’re sorted for the entire season.

7. Water- proof handbags: As much as you love your everyday leather bag, it’s a big NO for monsoons. A water-proof bag is one of the most important things that will help you get through the monsoons. If you

want your phone and most of your belongings to still function after the rainy season is gone, these plasticky looking handbags are your best bet. They protect your belongings while making you look chic, isn’t that all we ever need?

8. Three- fold umbrellas: An um-brella is a must-have no matter how many rain coats or windcheaters you possess. But instead of those drab-looking ones, you could always pick your favourite colour. Let your umbrella be a happy pop of colour in the dull, cloudy days of monsoons.

9. Accessories: The monsoons leave in their wake gloom & dreariness. Try to cheer up your look by wearing plenty of accessories even if the rest of the wardrobe is plain. Try inter-esting bangles, neckpieces and long earring, which looks fashionably cool during the monsoon season.

10. Avoid see through garments: The hot sunny months could practi-cally allow you to wear super thin, see through garments. The monsoon Gods will not be so generous. Unless one wants a major wardrobe malfunc-tion to occur, avoid wearing flimsy garments, as these will become acute-ly transparent on becoming wet.

For getting a perfect make up, the makeup tools are very essential. So the applicators should apply it in an apt manner to get beautiful results.

Makeup tools may perhaps consist of cosmetic Brushes, Eyelash Curler, Makeup Mirror, Tweezers, Cosmetic Bags, Cosmetic Containers, Cosmetic Case and Makeup Kits. One must take right tools for wearing makeup as they are very essential like makeup. Makeup tools have a tendency to be underrated part and overlooked for great numbers of women.

Makeup accessories for the majority of women include lip brush, powder puff or little makeup brushes. When one wants for qualitative makeup devices and well-known brand of makeup tools, it is easy for resorting to think that these tools are luxury, not essential. There are lots of makeup brushes with the cosmetic products that are hopeless. Like, the sponge applicators with eye shadow kits are very hard to make use of. Most of Blush brushes are generally little for touching the shades or colors where one wants to apply on cheeks. The value for ideal makeup tools cannot be overestimated.

The exact tools of makeup are useful for wearing make-up faster and easier. One can simply control the makeup by using ideal makeup tools and will be able to get long lasting look and natural look. Good makeup tools are not only feeling good on the surface of the skin, it will also make the complete procedure pleasing and pleasant. People should constantly remember that makeup brushes from famous brand can stay for numerous years.

If one who is cared for makeup brushes in the correct manner, makeup tools can be last for many years. Before buying make up brushes, one should look at that brushes, it must be soft and feel easy in hand. If bristles of brushes come out, do not buy the brushes as it can make poorer for the skin.

The needed makeup basics are brow brush, sponge, concealer brush, velour powder puff, shadow brush, blush brush and tweezers. One should care and clean for makeup and cosmetic tools on a regular basis. It may be possible that dirty makeup devices can be developed infections; so, it is necessary for cleaning them every day.

India’s favourite travel magazine brings you the Lonely Plan-et Magazine India Travel Awards 2015, powered by Flight Shop, showcasing the experiences most loved by the Indian traveller.

For the fourth year running, Lonely Planet Magazine India called upon the country’s discerning travellers to choose their fa-vourite destinations and hotels. Nominations for the awards were shortlisted by a panel of travel experts and professionals, and LPMI readers voted both online and in the magazine. The panel comprised LPMI Editor Vardhan Kondvikar; Veena Patil, Man-aging Director, Veena World; Manu Kashyap, Director, Windmill Holidays; Sucheta Potnis and Hans Tuinman, Founders, Travel-lers-palm.com; Madhavan Menon, Managing Director, Thomas Cook India Ltd; and Deep Kalra, CEO, Makemytrip.com.

Compered by actor and all-round funny man (stand-up comedian) Cyrus Sahukar, the LPMI Travel Awards 2015, pow-ered by Flight Shop, held on Monday, June 22, 2015, at the JW Marriott Hotel Mumbai Sahar, felicitated 32 of India’s favourite experiences. The winners were joined by the who’s who of the national travel industry and several international invitees.

India’s first exclusive shoes, bags and accessories maintenance store launched in Prabhadevi, Mumbai amidst much fanfare.

The afternoon was packed with well-wishers and celebrities as they poured in to congratulate the team on the one-of-its-kind concept store Pressto-ZAPATO. The occasion was graced by crème de la crème of Mumbai society including actors Avni Modi (of ‘Calendar Girl’ fame), VJ Andy, TV celebs Ritvik Dhanjani, Rinku Dudani and Brinda Parekh. The event began with a mock show-case of the services at Zapato which was of great interest to the guests. Followed by an exquisite high tea menu, the guests took a walk around to experience the ambiance of the store.

Pressto Zapato offers to Clean, Repair and Restore shoes, bags and leather accessories of many luxu-

ry and premium brands according to global standards using the best available methods, techniques, pro-cesses, machines, tools and products available in the world. In Pressto Zapato stores, you can experience the quality, craftsmanship and expertise of skilled staff understanding the customer’s needs resulting in main-taining and increasing the longevity of your precious shoes, bags and accessories.

Commenting on the launch, Esther Lennaerts, Founder –Director Press-to, said, “I’m truly happy and proud that after 3 years of research and development, we are now completely prepared to offer the best Clean-Re-pair-Restore services of the world in India with a 15 people strong team. All are Masters in the respective are-as, all processes have been developed and implemented for reliable and quality of the highest standard. We

would also like to thank our global partners in The Netherlands and the UK for their contribution.”

Clean. Repair. Restore.

The Fashion Design diploma at SVT College of Home Science, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai, strikes

a fine balance between creativity and commercial needs. It provides fashion design students with an opportunity to develop their intellectual and skill based abilities. It has a well defined curriculum for developing integrated expertise in design methodology, con-

sumer behavior, fashion trends, mar-ket dynamics, and forecast interpre-tation. The fashion design students have displayed their creativity in jewelry making and accessory design-ing. The technique used is Macramé which is an ancient craft of knotting in geometric patterns to create a host of creative arts; The art of macramé dates back to the thirteenth century when the Arabian weavers started

knotting the extra fabric at the edges of loomed fabric. The students have drawn inspiration from this ancient craft and created a new range of products to fit contemporary tastes.

Watching this fashion show will prove that everything is possible. Designed by LeMark’s students have

displayed stunning outfit and this designs are truly amazing and it’s a treat for your eyes. Marque is An opportunity to display talent. An opportunity to appreciate creativity. An Opportunity to inspire the future of fashion. This is what Marque stands for.

Marque was and idea. An initiative to boost the teaching pattern and prepare our students for the real world. With this idea we went ahead to create a show that best qualifies to display the talent at LeMark. Our every initiative has been to-wards enhancing the quality of education and standing at par with the international educational standards.

Paris is the pioneer in fashion across the world, whereas Mum-bai has emerged as the central hubs of the Indian fashion sce-nario. Fashion is continuously drawing upon emerging talent and renewing its creative energies.

Mod’art International Paris brings world class fashion education to In-dia. It offers students high quality professional training in sync with the needs of the industry. At Mod’art, students are professionally trained with skills necessary to stay in tune with the needs of the fashion fra-ternity.The Fashion trade is probably the industry that has undergone great change over the decades.

Originally, the Indian fashion industry consisted of middle and small sized firms spread across the country. With the arrival of big financial groups over the last few decades, the International market of Indian apparel and fashion has tremendous scope and opportunity.

Mod’art India offers a specialized teaching program which caters to both the Indian and international market where a student can opt for training in either design or management in the fashion field. Careers in fashion are exciting and creatively rewarding.

We strive on the Mantra that “we create designers who can change the world of Fashion”

Mod’art India is the sister concern of Mod’art Paris, a premium Paris-ian fashion school, known for providing exclusive education to fashion enthusiasts since 1982.

The Convocation and the Graduation Show -2015 of NIFT Mumbai was successfully completed

on 22nd and 23rd of May 2015 at CIDCO Exhibition center, Vashi Navi Mumbai. Smt, Hema Malini, Hon’ble MP and Eminent Film Personality graced the occasion along with Shri Narendra Kumar Ahmed, Eminent Designer, Shri Pradyumna Vyas, Director NID, Smt. Satya Saran, ace Journal-ist and Smt Nilima Rani Singh, Director - NIFT Mumbai. 206 stu-dents of various batches of NIFT Mumbai received the degrees during the convocation ceremony.During her address, Smt. Hema Malini, emphasized on the con-nection between the Mathura and fashion. On 23rd May evening at 7.30 pm students of Fashion Design & Knitwear Design showcased their creativity on the ramp through Fashion Show, which was chore-ographed by Miss Lubna Adams. The Fashion Show was graced by the presence of Mr. Dilip B. Jiwrajka Managing Director, Alok Industries Ltd, Mr. Pradeep Hi-rani Chairman, Kimaya Fashions Pvt. Ltd, Ms. Sangita Kathiwa-da Owner & Creative Director, Melange. As NIFT Mumbai is involved in reviving the Crafts of Maha-rashtra & bringing them to the mainstream Commercial platform & has been constantly trying to upgrade the livelihood of the artisans by teaching them new designs & techniques, a walk ‘for the cause of Craft’ was organized. KiranJoneja Sippy, SuchitraKr-ishnamoorthi, Dolly Thakore, ArzanKhambatta, TanazBhak-tiarIrani, RanveerBrar, Naved, Sharon Prabhakarand other eminent celebrities walked on the ramp with the creation of Pathani weavers of Aurangabad cluster.

It was indeed a celebratory revival of our rich handloom and handicrafts at SILHOUETTES 2015 – a dynamic fashion presentation of the graduating

batch of B.D. Somani Institute of Art & Fashion Technology.

The Graduating design students enthralled the industry stalwarts and fashion connois-seurs like Fashion critic – Ms. Meher Cas-telino & celebrity brigade of designers from Archana Kochhar, Monica & Karishma of Jade, Shyamal of designer duo Shyamal & Bhumika, Digvijay Singh, Payal Singhal. They were all enthralled with their innova-tive design skills and imaginative creativity.

Chief Guest, Hon’ Ms. Kiran Gupta - IAS- Textile Commissioner Ministry of Textiles and celebrity designer and stylist, Ms. Anju Modi along with political figures like designer, activist Mrs. Shaina NC and Mrs. Sharmila Raj Thackeray graced the event, cheering the new wave of graduating young designers.

Also, respected Industrial figures from cru-cial fashion business bodies like Mr. Naren Mukhi , Exec. Committee Member – CIAE, Mr. Aneel Murarka MD & CEO- Mirachem Industries along with international fashion buyers like Ms. Premal Badiani (USA) also attended the event to support the fresh talent of fashion.

Renowned Celebrities like Television actor Sharad Kelkar closed the show for Alumni designer Satyam Waghela and the reign-ing beauty queen MRS. INDIA 2015, Mrs. Priyanka Khurana Goyal dazzled as the Showstopper for designer Shraddha Vora.

Top Runway faces like Sucheta Sharma, Parvathy Omanakuttam, Sanghya Lakhan-pal, alongwith Taheer Ali, Raj, etc strutted the student’s dynamic creations.

The sharp black and white Ikat resort wear – “Monochrome Mischief” created the maximum buzz and stole most of the awards amongst the basic first year catego-ry. In the second year segment, the graphic geometric prints of “Pop Madhubani” won many accolades along with earthy resort line entitled “Cruise Kalamkari”. Also, the elaborated section of stylish kids wear cre-ated the maximum buzz.

The graduating batch of BTEC 3rd year created magic with two collections – ‘Pe-shwai Panache’, which redefined saris from Maharashtra and ‘Noma-Diva’, a funky

clothing line crafted from shawls of north east India. Designed around the theme ‘BTEC Walk of Pride’, the spectacular collection showcased the enormous talent of the young BTEC designers. On the occasion, Ms. Smita Chaudhary, Direc-tor, Pearson India and Mr. Kevin John, RDM, Pearson India, were felicitated for their valuable contribution towards the association with B.D. Somani.

BTEC, the internationally recognized work-related qualifications from Pearson, aim to enhance the skill-set and employ-ability quotient of students in the fields of fashion, art and design. BTEC is accepted by over 200 prestigious univer-sities across US, UK and Australia for direct entry into degree courses and is also recognized by professional bodies and international employers.

Under the star Alumni category, rising emerging talent namely - Harshal Gala, Anish Bhargav, Satyam Waghela & Seema Mehta showcased their premium debut line. Also, showcased were collec-tion by our fashion partners – C Singh, Shraddha Vora and Manish Reshamwala.

On this occasion, taking forward their fashion for a cause initiative, the alumni designers pledged to auction their show stopper garments to curate relief funds for the recently affected Nepal-Earth-quake. Aishwarya Design Studio whole heartedly came forward to donate the wholesale proceeding of their sponsored student’s collection – “Jute Jazba” for the relief fund campaign.

It was another proud moment for the in-stitute’s charming director Mrs. Aradha-na Somani on yet another successful silhouettes edition. The dynamic runway presentation was directed by choreogra-pher Utsav Dholakia.

It was indeed a mesmerizing fashion jour-ney captivating the audience with sheer hard work and amazing creativity from the future of our fashion industry!

In the span of 6 months from December, 2014 to May, 2015 various activities took place at Athar-va’s Fashion department .Students of ASFA ex-plored knowledge and creativity as well starting

from making Rangoli for Christmas and Lazim dance on Republic day in College campus .

To give technical knowledge of sewing machines, ASFA organised a seminar given by the team of USHA machines company, where students enjoyed & gained knowledge about different kind of machines.

For educational purpose they went for industrial visit to many industries in Hydrabad, Bhivandi & Surat where they had glimpse of the processes that happen in different phase of garment supply chain i.e., yarn procurement, fabric weaving, manufacturing, finishing, embellishment, etc & they got the knowledge of the working process in different department in a garment manufacturing company.

ASFA student’s performance in Atharvas annual event “Rhythm, 2015” was breath taking & they all set the stage on fire with their impressive costumes made under the theme of “Best out of waste”.

Esther Haamke (1986) launched her label in Amsterdam in late January with the col-lection ‘Snake Preview. After her studies in illustration, she went to Antwerp to study

fashion at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Still illustration remains an essential element in her work. This is reflected in the cheerful prints incorporated in her outfits. Esther Haamke is glamorous street wear. With its lavish collections full of prints, glitter and often with a humorous touch, she wants to bring more positivity and ‘fun’ in the streets

I Prarthana Kataria , Fashion Designing student , studying in Nirmala Niketan Polytechnic , currently pursuing a Diploma in Fashion Designing.

I am creative person who loves to design creative style garments and try to give new look to it.

I have attended Lakme Fashion week – 2014-2015 and I have attended several workshops like jewellery and accessory designing.

I was selected as a model to showcase the draped gar-ments on the theme education , which was held at Palladi-um Hotel. It was inter-collegiate competition.

First is the draped garment. This has been inspired by movie “ Memos Of Geisha”.

It is a kimono. Here the fabrics which I have used are printed satin , velvet and plain satin.It is a one-piece kimono with Obi-belt tied around the waist.For this I got the 1st price for best draped garment.

Second image , here I was selected as model to show-case our work .It was inter-college competition at hotel Palladium , Lowerl Parel .Here theme was “Education” and The meaning behind my garment was “ Flight to Freedom” that is Education helps us and empowers us and gives pos-sibility to Free ourselves from the ashes of illiteracy .

Soo, here in this garment have used colours of Fire to show and to stop illiteracy.

Fabrics have been used here are white satin fabric and Net fabric and satin fabric which has dyed in shade of fire.

KAIRALI AYURVEDIC HEALTH RESORT, KERALA

Tucked away in the idyllic city of Palakkad, relax in uni-son with your partner as you indulge in a range of detoxi-fication treatments with healthy Ayurvedic diets, wellness activities and rejuvenating massages, which is just what you need post a hectic wedding.

Must try : Kairali’s Royal Makeover starts with a tradi-tional foot massage followed by Siro-abhyangam (tradition-al head massage), Nethradhara (eye care) followed by a steam bath.

ANADA IN THE HIMALAYAS, UTTARAKHANDNestled in the picturesque backdrop of the lofty Hima-layas, the luxury destination spa lets you connect with your partner through a range of couple massages to provide the perfect synergy of mind, body and intellect. Its proximity to the scenic mountains with a combina-tion of yoga , Ayurveda and Vedanta, makes Ananda a holistic wellness getaway. Couples can even indulge in activities like trekking, white water rafting and nature walks, while enjoying a romantic rendezvous at this luxury spa property.

Must try : couples connect package which includes treat-ments like exfoliation therapy, aromatherapy, reflexology, personalized couple’s yoga and a rose petal bath in your room.

THE OBEROI UDAIVILAS, UDAIPUR RAJASTHANThe heritage property pampers you with an indulgent massage in the massage suites, with a concluding bathing ritual. You can enjoy an exclusive romantic dinner overlooking the stunning City Palace and Jag Mandir or take a city tour in a private boat. Take a private yoga session with your partner or enjoy a leisurely afternoon with a selection of rare teas and gourmet coffee brewed on your private boat.

Must try : Slow things down with a peaceful shikara (tra-ditional boat) ride with canape’s on lake pichola, as the sum goes down and the stars come out.