Life, as Mehr Jesia knows it

As India Couture Week walks its way across Mumbai ramps, 80s icon Mehr Jesia talks about life after modelling, why she’s happier at 40 and why ‘in her time’, models were so much more professional
She doesn’t read books, no, not even Chetan Bhagat. She doesn’t pick up magazines either — she is clueless about the [...]

Wedding trousseau, the Parsi style

Women display Parsi wear at the exhibition on Friday. Picture by Bhola Prasad
Jamshedpur, Sept. 19: After wearing saris of Bengal, Orissa, Maharashtra and south India to your relatives’ weddings, if you want something unique then head for the Parsi Association Hall at Sakchi.
Mumbai-based Parsi community is organising a two-day exhibition in [...]

Singapore Parsis Perform at Fashion Show

THERE may be only about 200 Parsis in Singapore, but the ethnic group of Persian origin is making its presence known.
Fourteen women from the Parsi Zoroastrian Association will present a fashion show this weekend at the Colourful Heritage event at Fort Canning Park. They are one of 13 ethnic minority groups residing here [...]

Farzeen Daver: A ‘Sari’ affair!

Not just popular in its traditional avatar, the Parsi gara with a ‘contemporary twist’ is also making waves today, finds Ismat Tahseen

MUMBAI: A Tag Heuer watch, Jimmy Choo suede boots and Kenneth Cole’s alligator clutches may all be in the running for the ‘hottest thing’ this season, but also finding its place in this list [...]

Spinning the yarn

Perveez Aggarwal tells story behind her creation: the traditional Parsi gara embroidery
MUMBAI: She wears her years as gracefully as she does her saris. Parveez Aggarwal became a model by chance, at a time when “there were not too many young women willing to be photographed”.

She had just come to Bombay (as it was then) [...]

Saal Mubarak

Today is the Parsi New Year. The first day of the parsi calendar.

Parsi new year brings with it the hopes for a new, happy healthy and prosperous new year. A year where hopefully there shall be more good news than negative criticism.
The past year has been a tumultuous one for the entire community. [...]

The fairest of them all

In their constant attempt to ‘make the youth mingle’, the Zoroastrian community has come up with yet another all-Parsi event- the May Queen Ball, the annual beauty pageant that will be held this Sunday.

Come Sunday night and half the Zoroastrian community will head to Rustam Baug to attend the community’s most famous beauty contest- [...]

The secret of embroidering a Parsi ‘gara’

The secret of embroidering a Parsi ‘gara’ is now being taught to those willing to learn, as a part of a five-day workshop at Khareghat Colony

Parsi gara embroidery, which is a specialty of the Parsi community has long been appreciated by the fashion industry all over the country. History suggests that this beautiful silk [...]

Six yards of Style

“…Too many too mention. I collect sarees which are regarded as heirlooms like Parsi gharas, patolas, etc….”
Read on at DNA

Indian clothes boutique in Lahore

“…stock of designer-wear by Manish Malhotra, Rohit Bal and Satya Paul; an exclusive range of handmade parsi gara saris, kashmiri kurtis, phulkari suits, lehngas with Swarovski crystals, distinctive metal work and embroidered pashmina shirts.”
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