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India Today
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- India Today
Lakme Fashion Week Anniversary special
Glamour, glitz and grandeur marked a historic moment in the Indian fashion industry as on the last Sunday of March, Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) in association with the Fashion Development Council of India (FDCI) celebrated 25 years of fashion weeks in the country. It was at the turn of the century with India having been liberalised less than a decade ago and having a rather nascent fashion industry that the idea of setting up a fashion week on the likes of the New York Fashion Week was birthed to provide a platform for Indian designers and help them with large scale commerce. 'We have come a long way since then,' says Sunil Sethi, Chairman, FDCI. 'It's not about creativity because the Indian designer was equally creative then, what has changed is the scale. It has gone up manifold,' he says, adding, that today we are a well-established industry competing on a global scale. 'The LFW today is a must-view event for many people worldwide – from the Middle East, the US and Europe. It's for global buyers to come and see what we are doing. We celebrate our evolution and journey,' says Sethi.
Time of India
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
‘Beauty and Suneo': Tara Sutaria & Veer Pahariya dating? Netizens brutally troll the rumoured link-up
Tara Sutaria is back in the news after making headlines earlier this year when her ex-boyfriend Aadar Jain got married. This time, online rumours suggest that the Student of the Year 2 actress is reportedly dating the Sky Force actor Veer Pahariya. According to a recent report by ETimes, the actress has developed a romantic relationship with Veer, who made his acting debut in 2025. Moreover, the report also says that, as per a close source, the couple have been dating for two months now. Fact check: Are Tara Sutaria and Veer Pahariya dating? The news about the actors' dating has come just days after Tara and Veer were spotted at the same restaurant, when Tara was seen leaving with her girlfriends, while Veer stepped out alone and posed for the paparazzi. Well, the insider told ETimes that both started dating just a couple of months ago, and now they are figuring things out on how to go forward, as well as they often keep going out for dates. However, so far, the news is just based on the rumours, as there is no confirmation on the same from any of them yet. Tara Sutaria and Veer Pahariya walked the ramp together The duo was earlier noticed walking the ramp together for ASOS at the Lakme Fashion Week x FDCI. Tara was a black vision. The Marjaavaan actress was wearing a black lace gown with long sleeves on the ramp, and a deep V-neckline that ended just below the bustier was a feature of the dress. While Veer Pahariya, however, complemented her by wearing a white suit. The performer wore ivory trousers. When Tara Sutaria and Veer Pahariya walk the Lakmé Fashion Week ramp, they set the stage on fire! 🔥#TaraSutaria #VeerPahariya #LakmeFashionWeek #FashionIcons #ShowstopperCouple #BollywoodFashion #Bollywood #Fashion #FashionShow #Actors Netizens react to Tara Sutaria and Veer Pahariya's dating rumours Amid the ongoing rumours, a Reddit thread on the dating rumours of the actors has grabbed eyeballs and sparked discussion. Some users even speculate about their marriage, while others think that once again, Tara made a wrong choice. "On the bright side if they get married she only needs to change 60 percent of her surname," one said. Another noted, "Aadar was average money. This guy is loaded though." "I hope you didn't miss Big Boss when she was in the house. Those were peak cringe moments," one said. 'I think it's the face, it's like a compressed chips packet.' While according to one, this is just a publicity stunt for a movie promotion, 'They're doing a film together, and to create hype, they're shamelessly forcing a link between them.' 'Her taste in men' 'Her taste isn't very great in men.. nay' "This veer guy irritates me.. Don't know why. Something about his face and body way he carries himself etc .." To stay updated on the stories that are going viral, follow Indiatimes Trending.
Time of India
6 days ago
- Lifestyle
- Time of India
Forget expensive products, Rakul Preet Singh's skincare hack is totally free. Would you try it?
Actress Rakul Preet Singh has given fans a glimpse into her morning skincare routine , and it's as minimal as it is effective. Taking to Instagram, the 34-year-old star shared a video showing her unconventional yet accessible beauty tip: dipping her face in ice-cold water first thing in the morning. The video, which quickly went viral, is titled 'Ek thanda jhatka, roz subah ka,' and Rakul captioned it with a reminder that "skincare is serious business." In the clip, Rakul, dressed casually in a white tank top and denim jeans with her hair tied up in a bun, is seen immersing her face in a bowl of ice-cold water. She explains, 'So my morning routine is what I start before I do makeup, it's cold water, ice cold water, and we go.' According to the actress, this daily ritual helps to instantly wake up her skin, reduce puffiness, and leaves her feeling refreshed and energized to start her day. Why This Skincare Tip Works The concept of using ice-cold water on the face isn't new, but Rakul's routine has renewed interest in the practice. The cold water acts as a natural toner, tightening pores and reducing inflammation. It also helps improve blood circulation, which contributes to a natural glow. Many fans have been drawn to how straightforward and cost-effective this routine is—no expensive products, just ten dedicated minutes each morning. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Ile-de-france : le programme panneaux solaires 2025 est lancé ! France Éco Infos En savoir plus Undo Despite the numerous beauty products celebrities endorse, Rakul's choice to stick with this natural and inexpensive method highlights her preference for simplicity in self-care. This easy and effective skincare habit shows that glowing skin doesn't always come from elaborate treatments but from consistent and smart choices. A Setback That Sparked Change About a month ago, Rakul spoke about an incident that pushed her to reflect deeply on her health and lifestyle. During an 80 kg deadlift, she suffered a back spasm, an injury that significantly impacted her routine. Appearing at the Lakme Fashion Week's Magnum Lounge, she opened up about how the experience taught her the importance of slowing down. 'The injury really did do a setback. I feel like it's been 4 months, and I'm still not at my optimal yet. I still need to be very careful with a lot of things, but every day is better,' Rakul shared with ANI . She admitted that the recovery forced her to let go of timelines and expectations. 'I remember that within the first week, I surrendered. I was like, OK, it's going to take its own time, and I have to be OK with letting go of certain things, letting go of certain work commitments, and then I bounced back stronger and completed the shoot of my film.' Looking Ahead Though she continues to manage her recovery with care, Rakul is back at work and gearing up for her next release. She will be seen next in De De Pyaar De 2, directed by Anshul Sharma and produced by Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar, Luv Ranjan, and Ankur Garg. Rakul's openness about both her beauty regimen and physical setbacks offers a refreshing look into how celebrities balance their personal well-being with professional commitments.
News18
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- News18
Aishwarya Rai Revealed Why She Takes Aaradhya Everywhere: 'She Clings To Me...'
Last Updated: Aishwarya Rai said that Aaradhya Bachchan remains calm in a crowd. Aishwarya Rai and Aaradhya Bachchan are one of Bollywood's most renowned mother-daughter pairs. Aaradhya frequently joins her mother on special trips and even attends red-carpet events like the Lakme Fashion Week in Paris or the Cannes Film Festival. In an earlier conversation with Firstpost, Aishwarya spoke about taking her daughter with her everywhere. Aishwarya mentioned, 'I take her with me everywhere so she is a part of my multi-tasking life. I keep it as real for her as possible, and very normal. Now she is in school like any normal girl. But even when she was a toddler, I'd take her to the play-park to be with other children. It becomes difficult in Mumbai. But when I'm travelling, I take her out to the park. Even there, there are people who recognise us. But they are normal parents and children. Aaradhya has to have a normal life. I've explained to her that is my life and now she's part of it. So she's comfortable in it." 'It didn't just happen. One has to work on it, channel all energies into keeping it all real and normal for Aaradhya. I am glad I took time off to work on looking after her. When people meet Aaradhya, they say she's such a normal child. That's my reward as a mother," she said. When asked if Aaradhya is fazed by the attention she gets from the media, Aishwarya said, 'What is really assuring is that she has incredible resilience, by God's grace. She has seen this (public attention) from infancy. When faced with crowds, she becomes very silent and observant, as though taking it all in. Yes, she clings to me in public because there are people screaming and jostling. In fact, I get more nervous when I am in crowds with her than she." The actress explained, 'Look, anything can happen. Not that anyone means any harm. But in the sea of humanity, even a little jostle can hurt my daughter. So I proceed protectively with her through the crowd while she remains cool. Everyone is beaming and waving, and calling out her name. It's a friendly world for her. Everyone seems to know her, and she needs to know everybody. So there is no attempt to make her feel like a celebrity." First Published:
Mint
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Mint
Meet Ritu Beri, the ‘selfish' designer
The first-person singular pronoun 'I" comes up often when designer Ritu Beri speaks, though not in a self-indulgent way. It's a reflection of her strong sense of identity, of creating a niche in a world dictated by trends and keywords. That's one of the reasons the designer launched Escape Goa, an immersive lifestyle space housed in a 200-year-old Portuguese villa in Palolem, earlier this year. Painted in her signature red-and-white colour combination, the space allows visitors to eat at a fine-dining restaurant overlooking a paddy field, enjoy performances by musicians and stand-up comics, listen to talks on various issues, explore pop-ups by homegrown brands that make accessories, perfumes and jewellery, and browse through Beri's resortwear. It's a relatively new retail concept that's popular in the West and finding a footing in India, where a designer curates a range of experiences under one roof. Interestingly, Beri has no store besides the resortwear space at Escape Goa. She takes orders online and then works on designs. 'I am not really a retail-oriented person who wants too many stores," explains Beri, who divides her time between Delhi and Goa. In a career of three decades, Beri, who is in her early 50s, has racked up many firsts—the first Indian designer to showcase at the Paris Haute Couture Week (1999); the first to head a French fashion brand, Scherrer (2000; a three-year stint); the first to open the inaugural edition of Lakme Fashion Week (2000). In between, she's dressed the who's who of the world, from former US President Bill Clinton to actor Madhuri Dixit Nene, opened and shut a store in Paris, and sold her designs at popular multi-brand stores like London's Liberty and Paris' Galleries Lafayette. What set her apart from her batchmates at Delhi's National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), including the late Rohit Bal, and Rina Dhaka—it was the institute's first batch—was her ability to bring together traditional and global aesthetics in a boho, flamboyant way. These included signature layered ghagara s, frilly dresses, sari-inspired skirts, mesh bikinis under coats, and heavily embroidered salwar-kameez, which brought her Punjabi roots and rock 'n' roll together. When her garments were presented in Mumbai in March as part of a special gala night, marking 25 years of the Lakme Fashion Week, her design vocabulary was loud and clear: All fun and lively, but sharp and clean. In an interview with Lounge , Beri talks about her work, being selfish, and why she doesn't plan to sell out to a large corporatised entity. Edited excerpts: To create an immersive space where you can tell a brand story through narratives rather than expecting people to just come, shop and leave. It's also my way of challenging myself to do something that's new. A brand is not just about clothes. Can you imagine doing the same thing every day for the rest of your life? You have to be a very bored and sad human being. Paris (couture week), Scherrer were my attempts at reinvention. I wanted to give the French a real Indian experience and shock them with our beauty and tradition. My models walked barefoot with alta on their feet. I don't think it was a risk; I still don't think about what people will think. A creative person can't get distracted by what others will say; you have to roll the dice and do what you believe in. I have blinkers on and I'm a very selfish person in that respect. When I started the brand, I didn't go with the purpose of filling a gap or becoming famous. I joined NIFT because I wanted to be one of the 25 people they were going to select from across India—that was my challenge to myself. I had no idea what the fashion industry was about. I had planned to be a doctor because mine was a family of doctors. It was all just random. I did fashion week when I felt like doing it. When I don't feel creative enough, I don't do fashion week. I am living my life on my terms and not by the norms of what social media, or what is expected of me. I don't live by the rule book of life of a fashion designer. What's important to me is that I have to like what I do, even if nobody else likes it. Fashion, creativity, design, aesthetic is a very personal thing. Of course, there have been many challenges along the way. There have been times when I've not sold clothes to somebody because they don't look good in it. My daughter thinks I'm a very bad salesperson because I refuse to let somebody buy something which will not look good on them. But I have always had customers; I was destiny's child. Escape, for instance, is completely my indulgence to do what I believe in and do what I'm passionate about. And that's why it's completely out of the box. Maybe I would have sold to a corporate, but then I've made a conscious decision not to sell my brand. I don't want to make underwear with Ritu Beri on it. Some people are driven by their P&Ls (profit and loss) and their commercials. Some people are driven by 10,000 stores. I'm not a retail-oriented person. But I am still very much here, talking to you about my work, running my business, making fashion. Today, people run wild because they want to be trendy and cool. They are dressing up all the time. They want to look good even when they wake up in the morning. When I started, people didn't really understand fashion. It wasn't fashion at that time; it was dressing for an occasion. Clients would come to me for a dress and I would suggest, 'I want to dress you in purple". They would say, 'I've never seen anyone wear purple. Give me something that everyone is wearing." Everyone wanted to follow the trend; they didn't create a trend. There were designers trying to find a footing in India, and a young me was finding a footing in Paris. I was flying high because my work in India was being applauded. And then I was exposed to the fashion industry of Paris. I told myself, 'If I'm really that good, let me do a show in Paris and get myself that kind of recognition". It was a different trip altogether, and it spoiled me because after that, working in India was difficult. The fashion industry here was just starting. It was a different ballgame; they (the Parisians) had a way of doing things, professionalism, which we did not even understand then. It was intimidating because the kind of people watching me were those who really understood fashion. Not like your Page 3 folks back home. The media there was exposed to the global fashion world. In India, we were educating our media about fashion at the time. I have parents who always brought my head down. I live my own life judging myself. I'm a handful. This is the first part of a limited series, Fashion@25 , to mark the Indian fashion industry's silver anniversary.
