…I’m in love with you
This ain't the honeymoon
Past the infatuation phase
Right in the thick of love
At times we get sick of love
It seems like we argue everyday…
“Honeymoon stage”, he commented as a couple rode by on a bike with the girl doing some lovey-dovey gesture to the boy. “They are going through their 6 month honeymoon phase, the best time in any relationship. Ah I recall my honeymoon phase”, he wistfully remembered. We all laughed. “But yours was a 5 year honeymoon, right?” He looked askance at me. “3 and a half years”, I corrected him. “3 and a half years”, he repeated. “And then the honeymoon is over and the madness starts. With all the—You-don’t-spend-any-time-with-me, you-don’t-love-me-anymore.” The three of us laughed some more. Suddenly, unbidden, I felt bitter. And my goddamn voice reflected it. I think I sounded hysterical. “Ah well I never went through the post-honeymoon phase. I had no choice. One moment it’s the honeymoon, the next he’s walked out and flown to Goa and poof, gone!” It’s the first time they had seen me show emotion over the divorce. It shocked me more than it stunned them.
Divorce. What an ugly word. But it’s the only word that does justice to what happened between us. Ours was no ordinary break up. In fact ours was no break up. It was just that. A divorce. With all its ugliness, all the trappings, all the pain, all the madness, all the division, all the mornings-after and all the sweet nothings that would become just that—nothing! Without the marriage of course!
Pas a Pas se va luènh
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Beyond the Cuts and Seams
A fabric, a garment, an outfit. A thought, a design, a creation. All woven together through the looms of time to make a subtle statement, an indelible mark, a way of life is what one discovers at this year’s Lakmé Fashion Week
Fashion’s on a trip — a colourful high involving pastels, flowing cuts and fits and East meets West silhouettes. The Lakmé Fashion Week held from October 31-November 4, 2006 at the NCPA, Mumbai showcased just this as it urged everyone to get ready for a fun-filled and subtle yet eye catching summer. Featuring established, emerging and Gen Next designers along with brands and accessory designers, the Lakmé Fashion Week had appearances to emulate, designs to desire, and labels to target. The collections of established designers like Sabyasachi Mukherjee, Pria Kataria Puri, Vikram Phadnis, Priyadarshini Rao, Lascelles Symons, Wendell Rodricks, Narendra Kumar, Surily Goel, Sanchita Ajjampur, to name a few; took to the ramp to show people how to groove to the new beauty beat along with foreign designers like Nathalie Garcon, Leonard Paris, Clive Rundle, and South African fashion house Sun Goddess. Emerging designers like Anand Kabra, Chaitanya Rao, Julie Kagti, Payal Singhal, Bhumika and Shyamal Shodhan, Nikasha Tawdey, etc helped everyone feel the many spirited moods that spring and summer bring. Gen Next designers like Abdul Halder, Rushabh Maniar also added to the sizzle of the season.
After the excesses of the 80s, the nose-dives of the 90s, the dynamic mysticism of the millennium has brought a return to the fundamental values in modern life. Simplicity, style, all-encompassing philosophies, broader outlooks have been the necessity of every generation. Life today covers all this and offers many alternatives, allowing everyone to create their own individualistic selves. Designers at the Lakmé Fashion Week brought to life the mood for Spring/Summer 2007, which is contemporary; where the classics in our lives can be combined with the psychedelic and sophisticated meets streetwise with chic consequences.
The earth and sky combined to form loose cuts and flowing fits, happiness reflected its vibrant colour palette through suspended mirrors, a sea shell brought to life an array of apparel and the sun shone to bring the flame of the Indian summer to the ramp. Grand fashion concepts aren’t just yanked from thin air. Before pen has even reached the drawing board; something has acted as a muse, be it an age, a structure, or a work of art. Designers brought out their inspiration for the vivid patterns that will make the flavour of summer through pastels, polka dots, florals, khadi, chiffons, georgettes and more.
Down the ages, clothing the body and in turn the soul, has played an important role in our lives. It is a new season and with each new one comes change, some broader and more radical than the last. New ideas, scandalous insanities, life itself; all found their way into the Lakmé Fashion Week 2006. Vibrant hues, flowing cuts, hedonistic fabrics found themselves imposed on garments or accessories to create an identity. The Fashion Week was all about the unspoken…the body seeking nirvana in style.
Pas a Pas se va luènh
Fashion’s on a trip — a colourful high involving pastels, flowing cuts and fits and East meets West silhouettes. The Lakmé Fashion Week held from October 31-November 4, 2006 at the NCPA, Mumbai showcased just this as it urged everyone to get ready for a fun-filled and subtle yet eye catching summer. Featuring established, emerging and Gen Next designers along with brands and accessory designers, the Lakmé Fashion Week had appearances to emulate, designs to desire, and labels to target. The collections of established designers like Sabyasachi Mukherjee, Pria Kataria Puri, Vikram Phadnis, Priyadarshini Rao, Lascelles Symons, Wendell Rodricks, Narendra Kumar, Surily Goel, Sanchita Ajjampur, to name a few; took to the ramp to show people how to groove to the new beauty beat along with foreign designers like Nathalie Garcon, Leonard Paris, Clive Rundle, and South African fashion house Sun Goddess. Emerging designers like Anand Kabra, Chaitanya Rao, Julie Kagti, Payal Singhal, Bhumika and Shyamal Shodhan, Nikasha Tawdey, etc helped everyone feel the many spirited moods that spring and summer bring. Gen Next designers like Abdul Halder, Rushabh Maniar also added to the sizzle of the season.
After the excesses of the 80s, the nose-dives of the 90s, the dynamic mysticism of the millennium has brought a return to the fundamental values in modern life. Simplicity, style, all-encompassing philosophies, broader outlooks have been the necessity of every generation. Life today covers all this and offers many alternatives, allowing everyone to create their own individualistic selves. Designers at the Lakmé Fashion Week brought to life the mood for Spring/Summer 2007, which is contemporary; where the classics in our lives can be combined with the psychedelic and sophisticated meets streetwise with chic consequences.
The earth and sky combined to form loose cuts and flowing fits, happiness reflected its vibrant colour palette through suspended mirrors, a sea shell brought to life an array of apparel and the sun shone to bring the flame of the Indian summer to the ramp. Grand fashion concepts aren’t just yanked from thin air. Before pen has even reached the drawing board; something has acted as a muse, be it an age, a structure, or a work of art. Designers brought out their inspiration for the vivid patterns that will make the flavour of summer through pastels, polka dots, florals, khadi, chiffons, georgettes and more.
Down the ages, clothing the body and in turn the soul, has played an important role in our lives. It is a new season and with each new one comes change, some broader and more radical than the last. New ideas, scandalous insanities, life itself; all found their way into the Lakmé Fashion Week 2006. Vibrant hues, flowing cuts, hedonistic fabrics found themselves imposed on garments or accessories to create an identity. The Fashion Week was all about the unspoken…the body seeking nirvana in style.
Pas a Pas se va luènh
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