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International Fashion Festival Kicks Off in Lahore

A two-day fashion festival is being held in Lahore from the 20th of April where designers from Pakistan and India including many other countries would put their clothes on display. The festival is being participated by many designers including Selena Warda, Nikki, Nina, Nomi Ansari, Pooja Nair, Nasreen Akhter, Naina, Sara Gandapur, Aansa and Diana [...]

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Pakistan Fashion Designers Win Prestigious British Awards

Asad Nazir and Safia Minney, successful entrepreneurs in the fashion industry both won prestigious awards at last night’s event. Asad Nazir was awarded the title of Best Newcomer of the Year and Safia Minney won the Community Award. Asad Nazir started his company, Trends in December 2003 after he recognised a niche in the market [...]

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Fashion ‘Made in Heaven’ Thrills Lahore Students

Amidst wolf-whistles, tinkling bangles and music the National College of Arts (NCA) held a fashion show titled ‘Made in heaven’ in the college courtyard. The theme of the show was ‘Heaven pure, untouched’. The brochure of the show read, ‘Heaven is ideally a place free of vice, where notions of peace, tranquility and goodwill are [...]

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Islamabad Fashion Show Celebrates Evolution of Urdu Language

The epic presentation of the evolution of Urdu language and heritage in the form of a fashion show titled “Aik safar Urdu ka” was held at the Rose and Jasmine Garden here on Saturday. The presentation was based on the evolution of Urdu through ages. Presented in seven phases, the show was exquisitely choreographed by [...]

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Pakistani Student Hopes High at New York Fashion School

Student Irum Mahmood came to the U.S. from Pakistan as a teenager in 1998. She shows off one of her designs, “This is one of the jackets I made, it’s called Princess Kimono, and this is a wool plaid. When I first started here I didn’t even know how to thread a needle, so I [...]

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India and Pakistan Trade Music, Fashion Amidst Goodwill

The Samjhauta Express, the Sada-e-Sarhad Delhi-Lahore bus service, cricket diplomacy or Dostkari, the handicraft workshop, these are all a part of the government’s confidence-building measures designed to thaw cross-border relations between India and Pakistan. And now independent business collaboration between the two countries is trying to create a similar goodwill. Pakistan’s well-known sufi rock band [...]

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Big Hit Pakistani Cricket Shirts Fetch £1 Million in Sales

Sales of Pakistan’s one-day strip from the 2003 World Cup are expected to reach £1million following some unexpected exposure from British comedian Peter Kay on Channel 4′s comedy show Max and Paddy’s Road to Nowhere according to The Mirror newspaper. Kay wore the shirt in all six episodes of the series, which finished last Friday. [...]

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Pakistan’s first designer starts Indian retail

In a historic fashion, business and diplomatic move, Faiza Samee, the Pakistani designer who once dressed former prime minister Benazir Bhutto for her wedding, has begun retailing in Delhi, the first ever for a Pakistani designer in India. Samee, who will be selling at the Carma fashion boutique in Mehrauli, has even made saris for [...]

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Student Art Project Concludes in Lahore

A week-long art exhibition titled ‘Unilever National Art Project 2004′ to display artwork by students from across Pakistan, concluded at Alhamra Hall-III on Friday. The artwork was themed ‘Connecting and Communicating’. Artists were divided in three age categories; from 5 to 10 years, 11 to 14, and 15 to 18. Over 200 works of art, [...]

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Fashions of Winter Adorn Lahore Art Gallery

The Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) art gallery at The Mall launched a dress exhibition titled ‘Fashions of Winter’ on Thursday. The YMCA art gallery has been around for four years and has held several exhibitions but the ongoing dress exhibition is the first of its kind at the gallery, John Shaffaq, the general secretary [...]

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