10 Best Fashion Magazines to Keep You Updated

With the growing pace of the fashion industry in India, fad for fashion has been increasing tremendously.  For keeping ourselves updated in fashion, we subscribe to a lot of magazines. Fashion magazines are quintessential medium to keep you au courant, with the latest fashion and tit bits of fashion fraternity.

Feminiya has come up with the top 10 fashion magazines that you can subscribe to, for knowing the latest in fashion trends.

#10- Savvy

Savvy has been one of the leading magazines in India. Though it has been a phenomenon in covering various spheres of women’s lives besides fashion, but still it covers a lot of fashion updates and tit bits. Besides fashion, it covers health, relationship, parenting, fitness, and beauty of a woman.

#9- Women’s era

Now, this is another magazine that has gone viral. No doubt, this is one of the best and oldest magazines in India, covering from fashion to lifestyle, and just everything that is women oriented. This magazine was first published in 1973 and since then helping out the Indian women, in every possible manner. The magazine comes up with certain short stories that let you peep into Indian families and their lives.

#8- Marie Claire

Marie Claire was published in France, and later was distributed to different countries in their respective languages. The magazine shares its voice with its readers in each issue, while magazine in USA covers women from all over the globe.

#7-Verve

Verve is a fashion oriented magazine that originated from India, by Anuradha Mahindra in 1995. It covers everything on fashion, from achievers in the fashion industry to the best collection of the designers. The magazine has been changing constantly with time, updating itself with the current trends. It truly reflects the frisky women of today.

#6- Femina

Femina is also one of the oldest and the most popular magazines in India.  It was first published in 1959. Femina has been a sponsor of prestigious Femina Miss India pageant since 1964. It revolves around fashion, and keeps its reader updated in its each issue that is published fortnightly.

#5-Cosmopolitan

Cosmo was first published in 1886, in US, as a family magazine, then converted to a literary magazine and eventually became a women’s magazine. With 63 international editions published in 36 languages, circulated in over 100 countries, the magazine certainly rules the world as one of the hottest selling magazines.

#4-Elle

Elle is of French origin that celebrates women’s fashion, beauty, and lifestyle. It is also one of world’s largest fashion magazines. Elle means ‘she’ in French. It is now solely the largest fashion magazine, with 42 int’l editions in over 35 countries.

#3-Grazia

It is an Italian magazine’s Indian edition that covers women’s fashion. It keeps its readers updated with the latest fashion, shopping spots, designers and their collections, beauty tips, and much more. The very first issue in India was launched in February 2008, with the sizzling Bipasha Basu as its first cover girl.

#2- Harper’s Bazaar

It’s an American magazine that was first published in 1867. It is aimed at upper middle and upper classes. It assembles photographers, designers, artists from around the world, to present a new perspective of fashion to the world.

#1- Vogue

Vogue is indeed, India’s best fashion magazine that showcases designers and their collection, not just from India but all over the globe. It covers all the latest fashion, celebrity lifestyles, photos, and more. It is published monthly in one regional and 18 national edition.

So, after knowing the insights about these magazines, subscribe to your favorite magazine today.

Every woman needs to read Parineeti Chopra’s inspiring message on body image

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Parineeti Chopra just posted really a thought-provoking message on Instagram about her body’s journey through the years and how she overcame shaming to emerge stronger.

There are two ways to look at body shaming: one, to give in to frivolous judgments and let it affect your mind and play on your insecurities; and two, to look that judgment in the face and prove those words wrong. And if you make the right choice—for yourself and not for others—you’re already on your way to a better, healthier lifestyle.

In fact, when you get the opportunity, thank those shamers: their words encouraged you to pay more attention to yourself, and less to them.

Here’s Parineeti Chopra’s message that she shared with everyone, and we hope, inspired many girls to not let negativity get the best of them:

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“BEFORE .. All my life, I have struggled with how I look, how I feel, and how people looked at me. I was constantly made fun of, but the person I was, I generously laughed with them. Today, many people ask me what triggered the weight loss, did I give in to the “bollywood pressure”? To that I say – thank god I became an actor and had that pressure! I am able to achieve what I couldn’t achieve otherwise. I feel more confident, I feel at peace, and I feel proud! Girls and women meet me all around the world, at airports, events, on the street; they hold my hand, hug me, and tell me their struggles and how I changed their lives. They show me their wallpapers, their wallets, and its all pictures of me!! They look at those pictures and want to make that change in their own lives. They look at my Built That Way campaign and have stuck it to their walls. I have seen women tear up and tell me I changed their life. Post delivery weight, teenage obesity, they are fighting it, and I am their inspiration. As an actor, There is no bigger achievement for me. I am glad to be a part of your life in this way. So thank you everyone. Thank You for making me feel loved. Like I always say – if I could do it. So can you. And I am always there for all of you …. Lots of love….”

Anushka Sharma on why she doesn’t believe in awards

Anushka Sharma is convincing even without a script. She speaks so fast, and with such earnestness, that in two hours I feel like I know her.

We’re in the living room of her Andheri penthouse, sitting on a black sectional sofa strewn with quirky cushions, beneath a New York-style exposed brick wall. On the wall above our heads is a massive abstract photo frame, and in my vision is Sharma, curled up in skinny jeans and a black tank, with the backdrop of the sun setting on Versova beach. “I don’t understand art, so I don’t have any paintings. For me, that would be a waste of money. Photographs are more real for me, so you’ll find pictures and posters rendered on different surfaces across the house,” she says.

“Waste of money” is not a phrase many actors use. For Sharma, this penny-wise attitude comes from her upbringing as an Army kid, something that has calcified her public image of the terminally honest girl-next-door—the anti-diva in Bollywood who has a hearty laugh and says what she feels like saying.

Today, Sharma is the big-ticket actor who still lives with her family and wouldn’t have it any other way; her 20th-floor apartment is next to ones belonging to her brother and parents. “It’s a good setup. While I’m living with my parents, I still have my apartment. We are a close-knit family, so staying together is the best feeling,” she says.

It’s perfect given her idea of unwinding: “When I’m not shooting, I love spending time at home—talking to my parents, playing with my dog (a frisky Labrador named Dude) and just watching shows like Brain Games with my dad.”

Sharma calls her older brother, Karnesh, her “best friend” in the industry. In 2014, their lack of Bollywood blood didn’t stop the siblings from launching a production house together. “We make a good team. We share the same tastes and are always on the same page,” she says.

Titled Clean Slate Films, the production house was launched to showcase content-led material by newer talents. “It’s a collaborative effort. She handles the creative side of it and I look after the logistics,” says Karnesh, who gave up a job in the merchant navy to join the movie business. “The only way we are different is that she talks too fast and I’m a slow thinker,” he jokes.

LEADING LADYThat Sharma is one of the youngest actresses in the production business hints at her path-breaker tendencies—she’s ready to write her own rules (and scripts) and live by them. “People asked why I was doing it in the prime of my career. But we only say this about actresses because we assume that they need to do it to find work towards the end of their careers. I’m not into production to make films that glorify me or to replicate films that have worked at the box office; I’m doing it because I want to create quality cinema,” she argues.

She doesn’t seek validation in awards either. Despite portraying strong leads in films, Sharma, so far, has only won awards for supporting roles. “I genuinely don’t believe in awards. It’s rewarding enough that a film like NH10 (2015) got the response that it did, and that because of its success I’m now producing a film with Fox Star Studios, which is funny, romantic and poles apart from NH10,” she says about Phillauri, which stars Life Of Pi actor Suraj Sharma and Punjabi actor Diljit Dosanjh alongside her.

Sharma’s film roles amply demonstrate her range—a city girl working at an MNC (NH10), a glamorous jazz singer (Bombay Velvet), and a righteous scribe (PK), among others. “My characters are wildly different, but they have one thing in common—most of them are that of an independent, successful, working girl,” she says, “I pick a film that has a strong plot. I’d never pick one to piggyback on a big actor or director’s name.” Her decision to turn producer with NH10, an unconventional, dark action-thriller with a strong female lead, speaks volumes about her intrepid nature. “I’m not a product of how people want to see me and how I should be or ought to be. I am what I am. I’ve never done anything just because it has worked. I love taking risks and following my conviction,” she says.

You can’t blame her.

Her life is the typical Bollywood tale we usually see in movies. And the way it’s panned out seems so unreal that sometimes even she can’t believe she’s living it. “If you push me back 10 years and told me all this would happen to you, I would have said, ‘Shut up! Are you crazy? It’s impossible!’”

Read the whole interview in Vogue India’s May 2016 issue that hits stands on May 2, 2016.

Photographed by Errikos Andreou; Styled by Anaita Shroff Adajania; Hair: Gabriel Georgiou/Anima Creative Management; Make-up: Rosario Belmonte/Anima Creative Management; Production: Temple Road Productions, Divya Jagwani; Props: Bindiya and Narii; Photographer’s agency: DEU Creative Management; Assistant stylists: Priyanka Kapadio, Fabio Immediato; Photographer’s assistant: Sajna Sivan; Production assistants: Saakshi Kaushik, Aishwarya Reddy; Location courtesy: Amateur Riders Club, Mahalaxmi, Mumbai

Salman Khan and Anushka Sharma in Punjab tomato fields

Top 5 Bridal Designers in India

Most girls, from a very young age dream about their fairy tale wedding. Wearing the most beautiful bridal saree or lehenga, with the most breath-taking jewellery and beautiful henna designs on their hands and feet, imagine themselves in a in a lavish venue. This dream keeps building and growing with age until she finds the man of her dreams. While everything else is taken care by the parents and close friends, the clothes for the bride are hand-picked and chosen with much consideration. The ace fashion designers should be blamed for making the girls believe that their dreams are going to become true in the most beautiful clothes.

[Also Read: Bridal Fashion Week 2015]

Indian bridal dresses are something every girl looks into from the time she is young and continues to see different Indian wedding dresses even when she gets older. Although the tradition to wearing elaborate bridal wear remains the same, its only the colors, fabrics and styles that keep changing.

Various Indian designers have carved a name among bridal sarees, lehengas, and designer Indian outfits from Manish Malhotra to Neeta Lulla, Sabyasachi Mukhrjee to Ritu Kumar. These top designers in India have made beautiful designer garments for most B-town celebrities for their wedding. Mostfashion trends are seen with their creations and with Bollywood celebrities showing them off at various events.

Let us focus on top 5 bridal wear designers, who have changed the face of bridal wear and have given it a new definition. Fashion now exists in everything we put on. Indian designer bridal dresses are now a rage these days.

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FashionLady gives you a list of top 5 Indian bridal wear designers.

1. Neeta Lulla

The name is enough. She is one of the most acclaimed fashion designers of India, who has won National Film Awards not once, but 4 times because of her magnum opus creations – a perfect blend of traditional and contemporary designs. Some of her best works have been seen in the movie “Jodha Akbar”.

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Although versatile, her forte lies in bridal trousseaus and her designs range from being simple to extravagant. Actresses heavily rely on her for their D-day. The Indian fashion designer, Neeta Lulla has also designed Aishawarya Rai’s wedding saree. She can effortlessly design bridal wear to suit any culture. She has also designed Esha Deol’s bridal wear in red and gold colour and many other kanjeevaram sarees for others.

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Quite recently she showcased her bridal wear creations at the grand finale of Rajasthan Fashion Week.Her collection was the perfect fusion of graceful cocktail gowns, anarkalis, sarees and bridal lehengas beautifully adorned with varied embroideries. The creations were ideal for the brides who wanted to get married in the summer-monsoon season.

The shades of gold, ivory, black, pink, blue, red and green just magnified the look of the outfits. Besides, the correct usage of soft fabrics like silk, crepe, chiffon, georgette and net embedded with elegant embroidery provided that sophisticated look.

All of her Indian bridal dresses and designs were light-weight and were created keeping in mind the comfort level of the brides. Bollywood actress Sameera Reddy was her show stopper who wore a stunning orange and yellow lehenga.

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2. Ritu Kumar

Ritu Kumar, Indian fashion designer is the undisputed queen of the Indian fashion industry, as her creations have always been par excellence and offer a perfect fusion of sophistication and euphoria. Her designs are always known to be an amalgamation of contemporary and age-old Indian craftsmanship. This veteran fashion designer has been pivotal in helping the Indian fashion industry from its nascent stage to the form it is today.

Her bridal wear collections are always made up of rich fabrics like crepe, georgette, silk etc. With elaborate designs and embellishments, her mythical bridal wears can make any girl look stunning on her big day.

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Rajasthan Fashion Week was indeed a show worth-seeing with country’s leading fashion designers like Neeta Lulla and Ritu Kumar showcased the best of their bridal collections. The Padmashri awardee Ritu Kumar’s models sashayed the ramp donning her superb ensembles. The viewers were just mesmerized by her free-flowing ethnic silhouettes ranging from anarkalis, bridal saris and lehengas.

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Here is what Ritu Kumar had to say

“The collection is all classical. Lot of layering has also been done on the garments. Short jackets and palazzos are perfect for the pre-wedding or post-wedding functions. Also the collection is for the young brides who prefer silhouettes that make them look young, modern and beautiful.”

3. Tarun Tahiliani

Tarun founded his studio in 1990. His signature creations have since went on to become some of the most sought-after creations not only in India but globally as well. His creations are a fusion of elaborate textiles, meticulous tailor-made designs and refined luxury. His creations include pret-a-porter, amplification and couture and bridal accessories, which are Desi in their comprehension yet international in their appeal.

He has reinvented the rich Indian heritage as contemporary high fashion through his masterly craftsmanship and the best-picked textiles from across the country and global as well. He is the first to introduce Italian pattern cutting and is popular for using digital textile printing. He effortlessly blends historical richness with contemporary chic.

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Tarun Tahiliani’s wedding collection at India Bridal Week was elegance at its best. The glittering bronze gowns, sarees and lehengas had the effect of a mind trip – surreal and astounding.

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His creations included paisley, old motifs and floral designs. Besides, they also radiated colors of pink, beige, off white and the time honored combination of green and maroon. We loved the waist belts worn around the saris which can give any bride a delicate look to the outfits on the whole.

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The Indian wedding dresses included crystals, flowing romantic gowns, lace and orchids. And the color story which he had opted was ideal for the wedding mood with reds as the forever predominant color while pink, peach, beige, fuchsia, rani pink, deep saffron, ivory, maroon and black were exhibited in perfect harmony. Embellishments were lavish with zardozi, sequins, antique gold work, clusters of crystals and appliqués which added to the exquisiteness of the garments.

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Tahiliani’s collections mainly comprised of

• Keyhole jackets contemporary anarkalis in juicy citrus shades with meshes of Swarovski elements with thread work adding to the attractiveness of the designs
• Rococo, crystal chandelier lehengas and paneled long cholis
• The gold net crystal splashed bridal creation with lace fantasy
• Draped net saris with superb craftsmanship, self-designed brocade maroon sarees with heavy crystal and sequined borders
• The eye-catching slim mermaid gown kurta, the draped net sari and sexy low back blouses

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What Tarun Tahiliani had to say,

 “This exposition is a confluence of two great artisanal traditions in a unique fashion. European designers have always used Indian workmanship and now we will see a new fusion of Indian Couture using international construction with the finest weaves, embroideries, jewels, stones and techniques. Everything is luxurious, shapely, western silhouetted but with Indian sensibility. I’ve used colors like shell pink, ivory, reds and brown in fabrics like sheer tulle, velvet, georgette and soft net. I’ve used the finest of weaves, embroideries, jewels, stones and techniques. We have done saree drapes, anarkalis, lehengas with different shapes.”

4. Manish Malhotra

Indian fashion designer, Manish Malhotra is a household name in India. In 1990 he bag his fashion designing career, and has gone on to become one of the most popular fashion designers Bollywood has ever had. He is one of the most favorite designers of almost all Bollywood actresses, including Kajol, the Kapoor sisters, Madhuri Dixit and Priyanka Chopra to name a few.

His bridal collections are just as gorgeous as his other couture designs. For almost all prominent events, celebs cling on to his creations heavily, be it for red carpet, marriage function or premiere.

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5. Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla

We have already discussed about ‘The Boys’, as they are popularly being called, in our previous edition in length.

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This designer duo who recently completed 26 years in the fashion industry are one of the most sought-after bridal wear designers of India. The Abu-Jaani wedding collection always stands for pure Indian comfort. These designers are famed of hiring the best of karigars to complete the zardozi work on their delicate fabric which is then tailor-made superbly to create one of its kind designer bridal lehengas.

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The Bachchans are a great fan of their and so is Dimple Kapadia’s family who are a die-hard fan of their work. They are the first of the designers to introduce the use of chikan work in bridal dresses. Their bridal collections are available at their stores in Mumbai, Delhi and London.

Recently, after the Second season of the Baand Baaja Bride, Sabyasachi Mukhrjee has also found his way in this list. His popular television series are mainly targeted towards the brides and he takes the responsibility to make them their dream outfits. Many lucky brides have had the privilege to flaunt his designs. TBZ or Tribhuvandas Bhemji Zaveri is the main sponsor for the show and for the bridal jewellery.

Tell us in comments whose bridal outfits you like the best and wish to wear at your dream wedding.

Stay tuned for more posts on Indian wedding dresses and Bridal Designers in India!

Kate Middleton And Her Big India Royal Tour

We’re loving this actor-turned-designer’s latest collection

Can you imagine owning a business with your mother and working with her all day, every day? Amrita Puri thinks it a great idea. She, along with mother Smiley Puri, are the designer duo behind Akuri by Puri. About working with her mother, she says, “There is no one who gets me better than her. I think it’s amazing!”

Their spring/summer ’16 collection takes inspiration from Vietnam. While travelling in Hanoi, Puri was drawn to the landscape and ended up investing in paintings from the city. “It just sort of came to me that I wanted to create a series on Vietnamese landscape art by recreating the paint-like effect on cloth. In certain prints, you can see the brushstrokes. One of them specifically is meant to look like watercolour art whereas most of the other prints give the impression of oil on canvas.”

The collection features breezy maxi dresses, louche jumpsuits, bardot tops and everything else you want hanging in your summer wardrobe. As for whether she would venture into luxury with the clothing range, Amrita Puri says she wouldn’t change the exiting model of business. “I want my clothing to be affordable,” she states.

Akuri by Puri’s spring/summer 2016 collection is available at multi-designer store Atosa. Aman Villa, 6/B, Anand Vihar Co-Op Society, 20th Road, Khar West, Mumbai

The most striking looks seen at the Met Gala 2016

Zoe Saldana in Dolce & Gabbana

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What can easily be dubbed as the Oscars of fashion, the annual Met Gala at the Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of those events you stay up to watch unfold. This year’s theme for the gala, hosted by Vogue magazine’s Anna Wintour, was ‘ManusXMachina: Fashion in an Age of Technology’. Loosely translated from Latin as the combination of handmade and machine-made creations, the interpretation of the theme was broadly futuristic.

There are many things fashion can be faulted for, but reinvention is not one of them. Rather than inspecting the dichotomy—handwork versus the product of machines—this year’s exhibit of 170 garments regales of how these both go hand-in-hand. “I find fashion a deeply, deeply humanistic practice and art form. I am such an advocate of fashion as an art form. I am so surprised that debate is still happening. I hope that after this show we can move on from there and ask other questions: ‘Is it good fashion? Is it bad fashion? What’s it saying?’ I just want to move on from that argument. I want people to accept it,” said curator Andrew Bolton in an interview with WWD.

To mark the opening of the exhibition, The Met Museum and Vogue Magazine join forces to throw a ball that is the highlight of all social events in New York City. This year’s ball was hosted by co-chairs Idris Elba, Jonathan Ive of Apple, Taylor Swift, Anna Wintour, Nicolas Ghesquière, Karl Lagerfeld and Miuccia Prada.

As for the celebrities who make the evening the spectacle it is, favourites spotted at this year included Zoe Saldana in feather-embellished Dolce & Gabbana gown, Karlie Kloss in Brandon Maxwell, Nicole Kidman in Alexander McQueen, Beyoncé in Givenchy, and Willow and Jaden Smith in Chanel and Louis Vuitton respectively. Here’s our round up of the stars who walked the red carpet.