The 2nd Pakistan Media Awards 2011 held at the Carlton Hotel in Karachi last week may have started way off the mark but what the event managed to accomplish in terms of credibility was to celebrate valuable contributions to the performing arts across a very large spectrum, honoring some of … Read more
Whoever thought that Ammar Belal’s Design Emporium was purely testosterone territory needs to think again. With androgyny being a huge trend this year, style-conscious women like Samina Khan of the super cool Paper Magazine, journalist/documentary filmmaker Fazeelat Aslam, as well as Belal’s wife, the former supermodel Aaminah Haq, have been … Read more
The inspired all-girls band Zeb and Haniya is back in the studio to record a follow-up EP (short for extended play, a musical recording that contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as an album) after officially announcing that they have signed on with True … Read more
Naming a film is an important task, and many associate the success of a film to its title. In Lollywood, the title may have importance, but the titles of many films just rot in papers and never make it to the film sets. There is a huge list of films … Read more
It was fashion galore in southern Punjab as students of a private university dazzled audiences with a glamorous fashion show that brought together designers from all parts of the country. The show, which was titled Behind the Seams, was the first of its kind in the history of southern Punjab … Read more
Before ‘retail’ became a buzzword, there was one entity which women looked upon as a panacea for formal wear — embroidered fabric. The logic for the retail boost and ‘ready-made’ fabric was essentially the same: Hassle free, pre-designed clothing, with the added advantage that you could style it as you … Read more
