Persian excellence takes centre stage as Ashdeen and Good Earth come together for a one-of-a-kind limited-edition...
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Parsi Gara Work Takes Center Stage With This Exciting New Collaboration
Persian excellence takes centre stage as Ashdeen and Good Earth come together for a one-of-a-kind limited-edition...
Think value, think vintage
Luxury is now about a different idea, an out-of-the-world experience, not just products and names… This week I am in Bombay where, between interviewing the Chief Minister and an encounter specialist...
City-born clothier will outfit Obama: Homi Patel
Barack Obama has ordered his first new tuxedo in 15 years for his inaugural celebration on January 20, 2009. And Homi Patel, the Mumbai-born chairman and CEO of the leading American suit maker...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...