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Fashion Opulence – Chanel’s Paris-Bombay 2011/12 Show

Akanksha — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 06:43:08 +0000

Grandeur has a new address at the Grand Palais in Paris when Karl Lagerfeld showed Chanel’s pre-fall luxury show and named it ‘Paris – Bombay’ yesterday Dec 06. Lagerfeld was able to bring the Indian inspiration to a new royal peak with the gorgeous fabrics, accessories and even the make-up. Its also completely ironical I suppose that this collection has come out during the vastly heavy India Wedding Season for this year.

Here is a pick of my favourite looks from the show including bags, make-up and even some head-gear also known as ‘tikka’ in India. Its like a brimming glass of champagne…theres no more that you can add, but in your head you have already decided that you would like some more.

Gorgeous royal colors. Who knew silver could go that brilliantly with blue!

An asymmetric hemline kurta-dress accompanied with a churidar!

Gold and Silver. India’s darlings.

A cocktail dress and Indian wear at the same time. Genius!

Something very royal about these boots

Almost an offshoot of an ‘Anarkali’ and a ‘Dupatta’

Gosh I would love to introduce a little androgyny in the next outfit I wear to an Indian wedding!

Inspired from Indian mirror-work im guessing.

Pink and gold! India’s favourite colors for weddings.

So modern and traditional-chic at the same time!

Oh my God that ‘Tikka’ and Oh my God that make-up. If you look closely the ‘Tikka’ or the headgear actually has the Chanel logo on it!

The collection, shown on Tuesday, will hit Chanel boutiques worldwide starting May 2012.
Photographs courtesy Fashionscript http://fashionscript.net/ Cafemakeup http://cafemakeup.com and IB Times http://www.ibtimes.com

Fashion Lust – Black Gold & Diopside Diamond Ring by Lucifer Vir Honestus

Akanksha — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 12:46:16 +0000

Lusting, drooling, digging, dreaming of ownership, coveting and all those things that a girl can do over something like this!
This black gold and black star diopside and diamond ring by Lucifer Vir Honestus uses only the lost art of wax casting to create this sensous organic form.
This exceptional piece, created exclusively for 20ltd.com, is another sumptuous example of the unique craft of Lucifer Vir Honestus.
To add to my misery only one piece is made and has already been sold! *Sigh*

Fashion Flash – The Sunday Guardian on Fashion Bloggers

Akanksha — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 11:19:23 +0000

Another lovely mention of http://www.akanksharedhu.com in The Sunday Guardian in an article about Indian Fashion Bloggers on Page 29 by Bhaskar Pant.

A closer look at it:

The text that is written on the blog: ‘Akanksha Redhu, a Delhi-based fashion designer and blogger, updates akanksharedhu.com whenever she spots something unique, new and trendy. “The idea behind my blog is to reach out to the whole world, to whoever is interested in reading about accessories and garments that are new, quirky, creative and leave an impact. This way, the blog becomes a collection of all creative things that can be viewed at any time. It almost becomes a timeline in the history of fashion, as trends come and go,” says Redhu.‘

To be able to read it clearly you can click here.

Fashion fix – Silver Branch & Skull Earrings by Noemi Klein

Akanksha — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:57:50 +0000

Can cute go with skulls? I guess so! In these silver metal earrings made to look like little branches with skulls hanging at the ends. Noemi Klein sure does know how to make a girly like her skulls! Bring em’ on.

Elements of Design-NIFT

Akanksha — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:53:53 +0000

This was one of my personally loved modules in college. Tons of fun, great rivers of ideas flowin in lotsa directions, exchange of ideas, super funky vibes in the shabbiest, dowdiest basement classroom ever and most important, no track of time going by.lol.

Our very fun, learned, respected and overall wonderful professor was Mr. Ebenezer Sunder Singh. Artist by profession. His work is even up in the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi which is super cool. Ofcourse since he was not a permanent faculty and was so off-beat in nature, his module had to be a blast.

Elements of design mainly introduced us to the concept of design as a whole starting from lines, dots, circles, shapes, colors, primary, secondary, perspective, positive negative space and how to play around with all these aspects or ‘elements’ of design.

Some of my work created during this module: This is all paper, poster paints and pen.

THE SPIRAL CIRCLE

We were required to create a shape out of another shape using positive and negative space. In black n white.

UNTITLED-I

We were required to paint a still life of our choice, depicting it only by means of black white and shades of gray in gradation. I chose to paint the basement of our college with discarded body-forms and the works.

STILL LIFE IN PRIMARY COLORS

Bottle, flowers and a leaf….and a lil ol’ imagination…;)…for the background ofcourse.

SPIDEY ON THE WALL

Introduction to primary colors red, yellow and blue. A composition made using only primary colors solid.

A FAMILY OF BUGS

Bugs made in decreasing size from the centre again in primary colors but this time only using dots of the paint. Fun fun fun!

STILL LIFE IN SECONDARY COLORS

Introduction to secondary colors.Fruits n veggies.

BUTTERFLY DELIGHT

A composition made with shapes using secondary colors and creating something pretty out of it, not blowing my own trumpet tho..:D

DOLPHIN SWIRL

Dots of paint again.

CRACKED OLD LADY

This was the final piece. Using any two colors and making the composition of your choice. Ofcourse using shapes and space.