
Valerie Casey Age: 39 Designation: Founder-CEO, Necessary Projects, a design venture Career: Held positions at IDEO, frog design, and Pentagram. Founded Designers Accord in 2007 Education: MA, Cultural Theory and Design, Yale University, BA, Swarthmore College Interests: Reads 3-4 books a week (she calls that her biggest passion), cooking organic foods, hiking around craggy, cold beaches in California, camping You founded Designers' Accord (DA) in 2007. At that time it...

10:01 AM, Jan 28, 2012

Marie Claire is the first and the only magazine in India to introduce validated fashion awards. ...

08:31 PM, Dec 31, 2011

New Delhi: The Indian naval designers have been working on cutting edge ships of the future. CNN-IBN caught up with naval experts at the President's Fleet Review to find out what the Indian navy fleet will look like, 10 years from now. The Indian Navy will have a three hulled ship or the Trimaran virtually invisible to the enemy radar because of its stealth design. Its deck gun and missiles...

08:05 AM, Dec 20, 2011

This season's tour is a journey that takes fashion and style across six cosmopolitan cities. ...

05:53 PM, Dec 18, 2011

This season's tour is a journey that takes fashion and style across six cosmopolitan cities. ...

11:56 PM, Dec 10, 2011
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So the ancient legend goes like this... Many were seduced and tempted by the elusive 'Elixir of Youth'. Others billed it as just an ...

02:03 PM, Jul 26, 2011
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...and the environmentalists flinched. The other day I came across an elaborate advertisement for carbon friendly suits, and it got me investigating. ...

11:08 AM, Jul 17, 2011
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We are halfway through the fashion week and monotony was setting in. I saw the same faces, similar tired expressions as many burnt the midnight ...

12:59 PM, Apr 09, 2011

New Delhi: Asia's biggest fashion event kicks off on Wednesday with 141 designers, including an unprecedented 77 on the runway, at the Autumn Winter 2011 edition of the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week. The five-day fashion extravaganza has grown bigger and richer over the years with increased buyer participation as they flock to the event every year from across the globe. Forty-one runway events showcasing the design calibre of India's...

06:54 PM, Apr 05, 2011
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So they are making one of my most loved books and perhaps the most stupendous work of sub-continental fiction in the last 50 years, into ...

06:04 PM, Jan 21, 2011

London: Hollywood star Halle Berry is to be honoured at the Annual Costume Designers Guild Awards next month to be hosted by 'Sex and the City' star Kristin Davis. The Oscar-winning actress will receive the newly titled Lacoste Spotlight Award at the stylish event at Los Angeles' Beverly Hilton Hotel on February 22, reported Contactmusic. The star-studded ceremony, which pays tribute to the best in film, television and commercial costume...

04:19 PM, Jan 21, 2011

New Delhi: Online shopping sites, which offer the latest designer labels without the killer price tags associated with them, are gradually becoming a part of the fashion market in India. It's not just the stylish fashionista who can be found trawling numerous online sites hunting for the latest 'it' bag or a pair of trendy pumps but a host of fashion portals that have sprung up in the recent past...

01:41 PM, Dec 28, 2010

What they do Sound designers are those who administer the right sound experience to the movie. Sanjay explains, "Right from the special effects to getting good dubbing done from the actors and applying various sounds to the movie creatively, is all done by sound designers. Sanjay explains, "The sounds of the city in Mumbai and that in Kolkata are very different. Mumbai has its road traffic and also railways; there...

05:44 PM, Dec 08, 2010

Ayesha Depala has earlier also designed for Lara Dutta and Shilpa Shetty ...

04:00 PM, Jul 15, 2010

Here's a look at the least popular outfits and designs on the ramp. ...

09:01 PM, Feb 12, 2010