| Manish Malhotra at Duchess Club
 The Duchess Club, a dedicated, woman-empowered team of 300 members, hosted a tete-a-tete with ace designer Manish Malhotra. The event started with a fashion show sporting the designs of Chaitanya Rao, Tina Vincent, Dipnaz and Richa at the plush interiors of Samavesh Hall, Hotel Savera. This was followed by an enchanting interactive session with Manish.
The fashion show featured eight models participating in six sequences. Each designer was allotted two sequences. Leading models from Chennai participated in the event. The prominent names included Shemshad, Nerita, Divya, Sitara, Bindiya and Simran. The hairstyles for the models were designed by Cut Above, the beauty parlour at Hotel Savera, which has taken hair fashion as an art form to new heights.
Tina Vincent’s clothing line included an embroidered trousseau in imported western fabrics, mainly Lycra and denim wear. The shades were predominantly pastels, pinks and black with a hue of bronze and silver.
Chaitanya Rao’s clothing line consisted of mainly Western and Indo-Western wear, the shades, bright with mirror work.
It is to be noted that Chaitanya has designed for actresses Simran, Amisha Patel and numerous advertisement films.
Richa’s first sequence consisted of cocktail sarees for party wear and the second sequence, Indo-Western wear, mainly short kurtis and chudidars. The fabric consisted of brocade and georgette with Zardosi, Kundan and sequence work.
The Duchess Club, launched on January 28, 2002, consists of 300 members from all walks of life who come together with the common goal of learning and sharing. The club is led by a team of five women: Nina Reddy (director, Savera Hotels), Rathi Nilakantan (director, A Cut Above Beauty Studio), Anu Agarwal (Tanjore artist), Sujatha Mundhra (dress designer and president, Shishya School) and Anuradha Sachdev (business woman). The club has a motley crew of women aboard --homemakers, teachers, managers and performing artistes. Most members are in the age group of 25 to 50.
Manish Malhotra - His Signature Style
He is the youngest son of a middle-class Punjabi family that fled Pakistan during Partition. He initially started really small, as a model. At the age of 25, he forayed into Bollywood by designing for Juhi Chawla in ‘Swarg’. Today, at 34, his name is synonymous with style in Hindi films. He revolutionised the fashion scene by envisioning a ‘look’ for the character.
His tenure as a costume-designer has seen him clothe most of the leading actresses in the film industry from Sridevi, Urmila Matondkar, Karishma Kapoor, Kajol, Raveena Tandon, Manisha Koirala, Madhuri Dixit, Twinkle Khanna, Shilpa Shetty and Kareena Kapoor to Aishwarya Rai, Rani Mukherjee and Preity
Zinta.
His turning points were the metamorphosis of Urmila in Rangeela and then the repeat magic was seen in the new image of Karishma Kapoor in ‘Raja Hindustani’. He has also designed for Michael Jackson and Naomi Campbell. Manish has a bagged a string of awards including the Filmfare Award for Costume Design and was also named Most Stylish Designer of the Year at the Elle Style Awards in 1999.
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