About Antonio Berardi

Berardi

Antonio Berardi is one of the famous names in fashion industry. His parents were Sicilians and they had an ice-cream business. He is an Italian-English fashion designer. In 1994 Berardi did graduation from St. Martin’s. While studying at Saint Martin’s College of Arts and Design, Berardi worked with a renowned fashion designer John Galliano. Berardi displayed shoes and hats by Monalo Blahnik and Philip Treacy respectively. The makeup perfectionist Mary Greenwell and hairdresser Sam McKnight provided their services without charging any fee. On his graduation show many buyers were attracted towards his work and designs. His designs attracted many buyers from top stores in UK.

During 1990s Berardi was a member of the cutting edge designers in London. He was said to be main fashion vigor in London. With his intellectual skills Berardi designed many elegant and beautiful dresses. At that time Berardi also worked with Hussein Chalayan, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen. In 1996, Berardi got a working contract with an Italian company Givuesse. Later in 1999 he organized a fashion show in Italy and showed his collection.

He designed dresses by blending the both English and Italian cultures and ethnicities. Berardi designs elegant and high fashion clothes. Berardi’s designed clothes give a gorgeous and attractive look to a person who wears them. Whether you walk in the street, go out with friends or go to a party you will be a source of inspiration for the people. He do not designs the dresses of same style and category instead he designs dresses of different categories and styles. His designs are very captivating and appealing. Sometimes his dresses look ordinary and sometimes they look very much different and fascinating.

Berardi is a prodigy and a great technical designer. He knows how to design a perfect dress with the help of fabrics, threads and colors. Berardi launches his perfectly designed collection every season. His collections are always included in the magazines which feature Elle, InStyle and Vogue designs and collections. He introduced his collection named ‘Never Mind the Borgias’ which contained Resurgence allusions. Berardi also designed a jacket made up of 200 zips which he named ‘piece de resistance’. He designed purple wedding dress for Victoria Adams (wife of David Beckham, Manchester United football player). Berardi also designed outfit for David and Victoria’s child Brooklyn.

In 1997 Berardi told Vogue that “My work is a blend of my Sicilian and British pedigree: an art school approach coalesced with the motivation I take from the dilution of the women in my family.” Berardi designed sumptuous dresses of wool and silk. His luxurious and extravagant collection of wool and silk is quite expensive. He has designed many dresses for youth. These dresses are petite contemptible but are very innovative and alluring. Berardi’s latest trends include women’s outfits and dresses with silk lace, ribbons and fur etc.

Berardi is a designer who proficiently designs the dresses and outfits. He has a vast experience in designing field and has arranged many fashion shows in different parts of the world. His dresses are also worn by celebrities and models. He is a perfect and a genius designer who has earned a reputable fame in less time.

Anita Dongre- Woman behind green world of fashion

Fashion is one field which is evergreen and also there is a continuous change in the products. Off late much importance is being given to designer wear and haute couture. In India many designers have come up in the recent times. This clearly shows the awareness people have regarding fashion. One designer who has been in fashion industry for more than fifteen years and doing pretty well in India and abroad is Anita Dongre.

Anita Dongre did her graduation in Commerce. Due to her passion towards fashion she joined in SNDT Indian Design School. Now she also is a visiting faculty in the same institute and other institutes like national institute of fashion technology. She was inspired by the cultural heritage of Jaipur and later in career she also launched a label ‘jaipur’.

Anita Dongre started her design career by launching an ethnic wear label. The collections were named under as ‘Masque’. Ethnic wear is something that never die and that never is out of fashion, though there has been a number of changes in the styling and designs. Anita Dongre released these ethnic wear collections in some of the well known stores in Mumbai, Chennai and Delhi. One such famous store where her collections were kept was Taj Khazana. She also has her collections in some stores in London and other places. Indian ethnic wear is liked by people in abroad and the designs have become very much stylish and in vogue.

Anita Dongre took the next step of launching western wear. She named the western wear collections as ‘AND’. She understood the pulse of the Indian women who slowly started preferring stylish, designer labels and branded garments which were also comfortable. This thought made her introduce the western wear. It was launched in 1999.

After having released labels for ethnic wear and western wear, Anita Dongre always dreamt of having a couture label. It was after being in the industry for fifteen years she felt it was time to have a couture label. She released the couture label as ‘Anita Dongre’. This was launched in an international meet. This collection gave importance to simplistic look, clean cuts, tradition and international fashion.

Anita Dongre has designed evening gown, casual wear for contestants of Femina miss India. She has also designed for many actresses like Sameera Reddy. She launched many labels with each label having a concept behind. Her labels not just did well in India but also in many foreign nations. With people becoming more aware about environmental issues, Anita used the opportunity to release clothing line that will be eco friendly. As a result of her thought she released ‘grassroot’. These collections were made up of organic cotton. Organic cotton is cotton that is grown without the use of chemical fertilizers. She used this concept to release the eco friendly clothing. It saw a great success as it was released at the right time when people started giving importance to environment and related issues. Anita Dongre is definitely a great designer who catches the pulse of the customers and delivers accordingly.

Fashion Techniques of Rohit Gandhi & Rahul Khanna

The highly embraced collections of Rohit Gandhi & Rahul Khanna bloomed in 1997. Rohit Gandhi & Rahul Khanna had based their visions from geometrical lines and linear structures wherein it is intensely motivated by contemporary artistry. Rohit Gandhi subsequently graduated and worked for five straight years at the New York fashion house. He released the prevalent H20 trademark of men's ties and shirts for domestic consumption purposes. With the favorable outcome of H20 he readily bunched -up with the gifted designer Rahul Khanna and soon launched another impressive brand, CUE. Rahul Khanna on the other hand, completed his course on Apparel Marketing at the NIFT. He was then employed as an independent stylist and freelance designer for voluminous dominant fashion and export houses in Mumbai and New Delhi . He merged with Rohit Gandhi in the year 1998 and both established "CUE", which specializes a personal ready to wear dresses for women. It also concentrates on commercial dresses and made to order uniforms.

The lovely and remarkable collections of Rohit Gandhi & Rahul Khanna were mostly based on straight line garments, but still holding most extreme vital elements of quality and style that has been taken for granted with the multiple demand of Western clothing in India . Among of the best features of Rohit Gandhi & Rahul Khanna are highly negligible and the clothing line is well known for its unique character of being intellectually sophisticated. On an adjacent look the outfits delivers a pleasant appeal which is groundbreaking yet discreet. It is combined together with an obvious uncomplicated elegance, always with a delicate pervasive twist. In the early 1990's the Indian market was completely influenced with distinct indigenous and traditional attires. In the following years in their fashion career, the tandem of Rohit Gandhi & Rahul Khanna spread out into the Western susceptibility and complexity and used these as a motivation with the sense of individuality to create their own styles that will trigger interest internationally and nationally in the global market. The great designers of India , Rohit Gandhi & Rahul Khanna were known to their highly tailored garments, organized chic detailing, and profound engineered cuts in its most splendid fabrics.

Fashion for the public viewers has become overused, that most people regard it as purely based on desirable appearance and the gracefulness of carrying oneself. The remarkable designs created by Rohit Gandhi & Rahul Khanna intend to break the misconception of fashion, associating it with attitude. Anyone can look cool by simple but refreshing clothing. Some of their best collections are the Rohit Gandhi & Rahul Khanna men's wear labels that enthralls ideas from travelers that includes wide range of contemporary jackets, T-shirts, high-neck kurtas with earthy stones in it, and the Capri’s. Most set of garments has no definite form with secreted pockets and fashionable collars. Fabrics have been delicately chosen that will provide consolation and easiness to the wearer against the prompt change in the Indian season. The Rohit Gandhi & Rahul Khanna collections exclusively use a fabric that is free from wrinkles and good for the body. It is well-balanced with neutrality in its color palette acquainted with elusive splinter of pastel colors like orange, mint green, aqua and lilac. Apparently, it is their 13th year of business last 2010 as a high profile designer brand.

Jatin Kochhar the Pride of India

Born an Aquarius in 1972, Jatin Kochhar came from a family who is in the line of businesses. He was believed to be born talented; he took up his fashion skills very creatively although he doesn’t have a formal school in training with regards to fashion designs, but still he is eager and determined to pursue his God given talent. He was blessed with so many abilities and that made him popular. He started to work out his career in fashion designing when he launched his labeled wear lines, for the young group sometime in the year 1991.


Jatin Kochhar is one of India’s prides when it comes to fashion styles and designs. A very versatile individual because aside from being a fashion designer, he indulge himself also in to other related activities like writing, anchoring and a lot of things just to give and share his best in order to served and entertain the people in the different field of industry that he attended. Jatin Kochhar is a very creative person and he is using it up to the maximum level of his career. In fashion designing, he shows his own techniques when it comes to classic design and chic designs. The blending of both designs mesmerized everybody and adored by them. Jatin Kochhar is very meticulous with his designs for as much as possible; the styles must be simple yet elegant and class, that is why it is most loved by his clients as well as by the public.

When the Australian Fashion Framework conducted a fashion show, Jatin Kochhar was the one designer in India that was chosen to showcase that event with his elegant and classic collections together with the Australian team during the tour on the “Out of Australia World Tour” last 1993. By that, he begins to start and open his own personal stores and just recently, when he put up his three stores in Goa, Mumbai, and Nagpur in the place of Delhi. Living in a simple place and in the lifestyles of urban, he chose to make a design that is perfectly fitted for them, a practical and simple outfit but has a class look that can be worn by everybody in any occasions like formal to casual wear.


Jatin Kochhar managed to work in to two different and separate lines. The first line is for men and women that cater the fashion consciousness. The other is a clothing line that is exclusive for evening attire. It offers classic wears from the traditional attire to the fusion attire then to western attire which is a formal wear. Being a versatile person, Jatin Kochhar also busy doing serials in the television as an anchor of the many shows like Khoobsoorat, The Indian Show and last but not the least, the Fashion Square show. Along with his busy career in fashion designing and as an anchor, he also writes up fashion show events and lifestyles in newspapers and in different magazines. Jatin Kochhar achieved lots of awards in the many years of serving the industry.

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Aishwarya Rai

The svelte beauty Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is a popular Indian actress and former Miss World. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is married to actor Abhishek Bachchan and is the daughter-in law of legendary bollywood actors Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan. Aishwarya was born on 1st November, 1973 to Krishnaraj Rai and Vrinda Rai in Mangalore, Karnataka. Her brother Aditya Rai is an engineer in the merchant navy.

Aishwarya attended the Arya Vidya Mandir High School in Santa Cruz, Jai Hind College at Churchgate and Ruparel College in Matunga. Aishwarya aspired to be an architect before joining modelling. During her studies, she took up modelling as a part time profession and was seen in a couple of TV commercials. Aishwarya Rai was crowned the Miss India runner up in 1994 and went on to become Miss World 1994.

Aishwarya made her film debut in Mani Ratnam’s Tamil film ‘Iruvar’ alongside Mohanlal and Tabu. The movie became a critical success and earned several awards including two national awards. Aishwarya’s first bollywood film was ‘Aur Pyar Ho gaya’ opposite Bobby Deol. The movie turned to be a commercial and critical failure. Aishwarya’s first commercial success was S. Shankar’s Tamil film ‘Jeans’.

Aishwarya Rai stormed the Indian film industry with her brilliant performance in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam’ opposite Ajay Devgan and Salman Khan released in 1999. The film became a huge success at the box office and bagged several prestigious awards. Aishwarya won her first Filmfare Best Actress Award for ‘Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam’. Later that year she starred in Subhash Ghai’s romantic musical ‘Taal’ alongside Anil Kapoor and Akshay Khanna. Her angelic looks and genuine performance was appreciated by the critics as well as audiences.

Aishwarya simply excelled in her next releases including Mansoor Khan’s ‘Josh’, ‘Satish Kaushik’s ‘Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai’, Aditya Chopra’s ‘Mohabbatein’ and Tamil film ‘Kandukondain Kandukondain’. Aishwarya’s 2002 blockbuster hit ‘Devdas’ was screened at Cannes Film Festival and became the highest earner of the year. ‘Devdas’ was directed by notable filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali and also featured Shahrukh Khan and Madhuri Dixit. Aishwarya Rai received her second Filmfare Best Actress Award for ‘Devdas’.

Aishwarya then appeared in ‘Chokher Bali’, a Bengali film by Rituparno Ghosh that earned rave reviews for Aishwarya’s performance. Her next two releases ‘Dil Ka Rishta’ and ‘Kuch Na Kaho’ failed at the box office and panned by the critics. Aishwarya’s critically acclaimed performances in Gurinder Chadha's English film ‘Bride and Prejudice’, Rajkumar Santoshi's ‘Khakee’ and Rituparno Ghosh’s ‘Raincoat’ proved her versatility and flair for cinema.

Before making a special appearance in a song sequence in Shaad Ali’s ‘Bunty Aur Babli’ alongside Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya was seen in a couple of movies like’Shabd’ and ‘The Mistress of Spices’ that bombed at the box office. Aishwarya’s other consequent hits include ‘Dhoom- 2’, ‘Jodha Akbar’, ‘Guru’, ‘Sarkar Raj’ and ‘Pink Panther 2’.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is the first Indian actress to become a jury member at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival.

Aishwarya has been conferred upon a number of honors including the Padma Shri by the Govt. Of India, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, the second highest Order of France, Female Star of The Decade at the tenth IIFA Awards held in Macau. She was also honored by the London's Madame Tussaud's wax museum by installing her wax replica in 2004.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has appeared in a number of international shows including Late Show with David Letterman, Oprah's "Women Across the Globe", Martha Stewart's show Martha and The Tyra Banks Show. Aishwarya Rai has also been named as "The World's Most Beautiful Woman" by various magazines and surveys.

Aishwarya’s forthcoming films include S. Shankar’s Tamil film ‘Endhiran’, Mani Ratnam's ‘Raavana’, Sanjay Leela Bhansali's ‘Guzaarish’ and Vipul Shah's ‘Action Replay’.

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