Lakme Fashion Week, Winter Festive 2010 - Manish Arora

The first day of Lakme Fashion week was closed by Manish Arora. He presented a collection packed with psychedelic kaleidoscopic colors in abstract and art prints. The collection consisted of dresses with drapes, rouched blouses, bias cut skirts and sexy plunging V necklines which were at times were paired by rigid extended shoulders and wide sleeves. The collection had a very futuristic style with a robotic feel. All the models were in cropped colorful wigs and tribal makeup.

Few of Manish's prints in this collection reminded me of McQueen stuff.

I am going to come out and say upfront that I not a big fan of Manish since most of the stuff is best suited to the likes of Kate Perry and Lady GaGa. Its too kitschy for my taste..I was pleasantly surprise by this collection. If you can just look at the clothes, there are some (the emphasis being some) pieces that can be worn if you keep all other accessories really simple and your attitude cocky:-)



Red Carpet picks: This is a tough one!!

photo credits: pinkvilla.com

Sonam promoting Aisha in Ahmedabad

Who: Sonam Kapoor

Looks like pink was the color of the day in Ahmedabad. Sonam wore a Fuchsia pink peep-toes with her Manish Arora (ID Rhea's tweet) sequins dress at the premiere. And she also matched her lip color to her shoes:-) In another appearance during the day, Sonam paired a mulberry pink Dior bag with a black/white dress and pearl strands. This outfit has a very deja vu feeling to it..Both dresses are nice but don't really blow me away...Which ensemble did u like better?

I think Sonam should have picked one of the outfits we choose for her:-) See here.

On designer note, the sequins dress is very unlike Manish Arora. He tends to be very kitschy and very colorful..

The Aisha gang all wore Indian designers at the Aisha premiere in Ahmedabad - Ira in Manish Arora, Amrita in Cue and Lisa in Atsu...Hopefully the pics will be out soon..

photo credits: Sonam Kapoor fan page on Facebook

Katy Perry in Manish Arora

Who: Katy Perry
Where: ASCAP Pop Music Awards

I will be the first to admit that Manish Arora is not my cup of tea - too bright and avant garde for me. Here we have Kate Perry wearing his dress and Jimmy Choo shoes. I do like the colors of the dress but not the hemline and the shoes clash with the dress... btw, the shoes glow when u walk...Dont know whether to cry or laugh at that..

photo credits: people.com