बॉलीवुड एक्ट्रेस () यूं तो इंडियन से लेकर वेस्टर्न तक सभी में बेहद खूबसूरत लगती हैं लेकिन साड़ियों से उन्हें बेहद प्यार है। अपनी किसी फिल्म का प्रमोशन करना हो या फिर किसी बड़े इवेंट में शरीक होना हो, अभिनेत्री अक्सर आपको साड़ियों में नजर आ जाएंगी। इस अजीब और अनिश्चित समय में, जब COVID-19 पूरी दुनिया के लिए स्वास्थ्य संकट की जगह एक आर्थिक संकट बन गया है तब भी क्वीन अपने स्टाइलिश लुक्स से अपने फैंस को मोटीवेट करना नहीं भूल रहीं। जी हां, लॉकडाउन में जहां सभी सेलेब्स अपने-अपने घरों में बंद हैं, वहीं कंगना रनौत की बहन रंगोली चंदेल अपने नए घर में शिफ्ट हो चुकी हैं। घर में हो रही पूजा की कुछ फोटोस भी रंगोली ने अपने सोशल मीडिया अकाउंट पर शेयर की जिसमें हमारा ध्यान कंगना रनौत की पैठानी साड़ी पर गया। जोकि उनकी बड़ी बहन रंगोली की थी, जिसे उन्होंने अंतिम बार करवा चौथ के खास मौके पर पहना था। भले ही यह साड़ी उनकी बहन रंगोली की हो लेकिन हर बार की तरह कंगना काफी खूबसूरत लग रही थी। कंगना के ओवरऑल लुक की बात करें बेहद सिंपल डार्क ब्लू रंग की पैठानी साड़ी में कंगना काफी खूबसूरत लग रही थी। उनकी इस साड़ी पर गोल्डन बूटी प्रिंट्स का काम हुआ था जिसके चारों और गोल्डन पट्टी का चौड़ा बॉर्डर शामिल था। यही नहीं मिनिमल मेकअप के साथ मेसी बन, न्यूड लिप कलर, ब्लैक बिंदी और गोल्डन चोकर और स्टड्स से उन्होंने अपने लुक को कम्पलीट किया। वहीं बात करें हेयरस्टाईलिंग की तो लेवेंडर फूल से उन्होंने अपने मेसी बन को कवर किया हुआ था जिसमें उनका लुक एकदम परफेक्ट था। वहीं रंगोली भी इस दौरान फ्लोरल प्रिंट के चौड़े बॉर्डर वाली ग्रीन साड़ी में नजर आईं। इन तस्वीरों को शेयर करते हुए रंगोली ने इस बात का भी जिक्र किया बिना किसी खास तैयारी के वो अपने घर में कदम रखने जा रही थीं लेकिन कंगना ने उन्हें बिल्कुल नई दुल्हन की तरह सजा दिया।
In March of 2018, only months after Call Me By Your Name premiered in theatres, an Instagram account by the name of @cmbynmonet — Call Me By Monet — went viral. The account takes stills from the film, starring Timothee Chalamet and Armie Hammer, and Photoshops them on top of classic paintings by French painter Claude Monet. It now has over 50 thousand followers.
Four months later, another artistic Instagram account garnered acclaim, and this time it wasn’t just tied to the then-up-and-coming actor on everyone’s minds — it was entirely dedicated to him. The brainchild of a 23-year-old student named Anna, the account @chalametinart showcased images of Chalamet superimposed over classic artworks, most notably, Caravaggio’s Boy with a Basket of Fruit. “My main inspiration for creating the account came from Call Me By Your Name,” Anna told Vice. “Each shot, thanks to the use of a single lens, seems like a painting in itself.”
With now two accounts dedicated to Chalamet as a work of art, it begs the question: Do we have Chalamet to thank for bringing classic art into the digital age? What about his face makes young women so inclined to create fine art around it? Anna’s response: “His looks seem to fit in any painting from any time perfectly, and his outstanding acting, multilingualism, and musical skills make him a true Renaissance man.”
But when Anna stopped posting “badly photoshopped Timmy” art edits for her nearly 100k followers in January 2019, another passionate fan was quick to take her place.
“@Chalametinart was absolutely my main inspiration,” says Zara, the creator of @zarascreatives, an account meant to follow in her “mentor” Anna’s footsteps, that launched in March. “I tried to contact Anna a few times after she stopped posting, but sadly, we haven’t spoken. Over a year since she first blessed us with an art edit, I felt like I had to give it a go myself.” And like her predecessors, it didn’t take long for Zara to see art and Timothée fans alike flock to her page.
According to Zara, the reason that Chalamet works so well for classic art edits is because he “doesn’t fit into the perfectly sculpted mold of male beauty standards.” She adds, “He’s beautifully androgynous and ok with being feminine.” Androgyny plays a significant role in the images she creates because, historically, masculinity and femininity were rendered more fluidly in art, a reflection of the time when these works of art were first created. In fact, according to John Varriano’s book Caravaggio: The Art of Realism, the Italian painter had two specific androgynous characters that were among his favorite and most frequented subjects. “One of my favorite pieces is of Timothée and Saoirse Ronan in a portrait that was originally of two women,” Zara says.
But while it’s Chalamet’s face you see when you log onto her page, he’s not the only reason for its existence. “These edits are my way of breathing life into old artworks,” Zara says. “It exposes them to a new generation, one that maybe hadn’t been interested in art before.”
In the nearly two years since @cmbynmonet first appeared on Instagram, and with the quarantine keeping people away from cultural centers like museums and galleries, it’s no wonder that younger generations are going online to feed their newfound interest in classical art.
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And not all reimagined classical art is dedicated to Chalamet’s finely chiseled features. The latest buzzy art account is @sidedimes created by Mikayla Lapierre, an art director at McCann New York. On the feed, you’ll find 18th-and 19th-century artworks by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and more, but with a 21st-century touch. Think: women splayed out on the subway station benches in silk gowns and pearls or, for Lapierre’s latest collection, classic paintings of women by Vittorio Reggianini, each superimposed with surgical face masks.
If you’re looking to add some cultural eye candy to your walls in quarantine, you can get a Side Dimes print online for $15. Affordable classic art — quite possibly thanks to Timothée Chalamet — is just a click away. But these days, so too is the real thing.
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#GucciTheRitual is back for round two — and it’s best enjoyed at home.
Three months after the luxury brand’s fall 2020 collection debuted, Gucci launched its latest campaign, with digital imagery and a video. The 16-second clip shows a lineup of models dancing and singing to “Alright” by Supergrass in their respective homes — all while decked out in head-to-toe Gucci. Right before the video fades out, Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele takes the screen and joins in.
The campaign imagery shows models going about their routines in quarantine: brushing their teeth, concocting homemade face masks, and taking advantage of any and every socially distant outdoor space. Of course, no Gucci campaign would be complete without animals, so models invited their feathered friends, from chickens to birds, to join the at-home shoot. According to Interview, Michele called the campaign his “most authentic yet,” saying that “the extravagant hyper-naturalism that [he has] always tried to depict, now emerges even more authentically and more amazingly.”
“The overturning, in fact, creates a paradoxical effect: loosening control produced a narration that seems to overcome, in intensity, my own ability to build fiction,” he told the magazine. “I am thankful for this imaginative experimentation because it restored the power of a dream: mine.”
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Since Michele took the helm in 2015, he has brought the Milan-based luxury brand into the modern-day, spearheading the maximalist fashion movement after years of minimal dominance. Since then, he has launched campaigns ranging in inspiration from photographs of Malick Sidibé, who captured youth culture in Africa in the ‘60s and ‘70s, (pre-fall ‘17) to old Hollywood glamour (spring ‘19).
For the most recent the fall ‘20 runway show last February, Michele upturned the fashion show structure completely. The show, titled “The Ritual,” gave the audience the chance to see what happens behind the scenes at a fashion show. Behind a transparent screen, models could be seen getting dressed in their final looks. Once they were fully dressed, each model took their spot on the edge of the rotating stage. In the show notes, Michele explained his reasoning for the flipped format, saying: “There’s something though, in this ceremony, that usually stays buried: the struggle of the parturient that accompanies the tremble of creation; the mother’s womb where poetry blooms, from shape to shape. Therefore, I decided to unveil what lies behind the curtains. May the miracle of skillful hands and holding breath come out of the shadows.”
See a stylized version of our lives in quarantine in the Gucci campaign, above.
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – FEBRUARY 08: A model walks the runway for Claudia Li Ready to Wear Fall/Winter 2020-2021 fashion show during New York Fashion Week on February 08, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Victor VIRGILE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
Claudia Li designs clothing from an emotional place. But several months into the pandemic, the designer is considering rethinking everything.
For her Fall 2020 collection, the New York-based designer was inspired by memories of her late grandfather, for an unabashedly optimistic collection that showcased bold prints and a colorful palette of blues, yellows, and red. Six months prior, for her Spring 2020 collection, Li featured a photo print of her parents on the most standout pieces from the collection.
Li told me on the phone last week that she seeks to recreate the feeling. “It’s the idea of not going back to the past, but to bring the happiest moments and the fantasy from the past to present and into reality,” she said of the Spring 2021 collection that she’s currently working on, which is inspired by her intimate wedding in Hawaii.
Like many designers, Li was in the midst of working on the forthcoming collection when New York City was put under lockdown in March as the result of the COVID-19 pandemic. “In the beginning, I was obviously panicking and scared, I think everyone was afraid,” she said. Since then, she has packed up the office, digitized the moodboards, and has been in constant communication with her now-remote team. She is “feeling a lot better” now, having had the time to reflect on the future of her business.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – FEBRUARY 08: A model walks the runway for Claudia Li Ready to Wear Fall/Winter 2020-2021 fashion show during New York Fashion Week on February 08, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Victor VIRGILE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
“Fashion has always been, you just keep going and don’t really take the time or a moment to breathe. Since March, it has felt that someone has pushed a pause button, and then, all of a sudden, it kind of stopped, and I really had to think and be like, Hey, what are we really doing here?” she said. “Before this, design-wise, I didn’t really overthink because decisions needed to be made. You just go with it. Nowadays, I really think about what is the reason that we’re doing this: Are we wasting fabric? Are we wasting resources? Do we really need another cocktail dress? Things like that, we didn’t really think about before because you have stores or like a retailer saying, ‘Can you make this? We love to see more of this.’ [Right now] I am not making things for the sake of making.”
This is a sentiment that many designers have expressed in the last two months, while also speaking out against the long-broken fashion system that has forced them to produce out of season and discount clothing, and paid little attention to supporting emerging designers like Li. “I think even before everything happened, fashion was already a failing system. I am really not afraid to say it because, at least for smaller brands like ours, it really wasn’t working at all,” Li says. “I really hope that the people who make the rules see what they could do for the smaller brands. For me, I really wish that people who have a say in the bigger things, they can realize that something is wrong with the system and it needs to be changed.”
In the meantime to keep the business afloat and her team in place — with no guidance or knowledge of what the future of fashion will hold, or what September’s NYFW will even look like — Li has had to find alternative ways to make sales, like experimenting with digital market appointments. “I think this is a chance for us to make our own rules in some ways. I don’t want to say, ‘Screw the system’ or whatever, it’s not that, but I do feel like we need a better system and for someone who has the power to say, ‘Hey, you know what, I am going to group everyone together and make it work for everyone,’” she says.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – FEBRUARY 08: A model walks the runway for Claudia Li Ready to Wear Fall/Winter 2020-2021 fashion show during New York Fashion Week on February 08, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Victor VIRGILE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
While working apart from her team has been difficult, according to Li, the biggest challenge has been seeing the racist and xenophobic violence and discrimination toward people of Asian descent. A Chinese designer who was raised in New Zealand and Singapore, Li has spent the last 10 years in New York. “I’ve always been sort of the outsider in every single place I went growing up. It was fine, like there was minor discrimination here and there, but it’s not like so much that I get mentally affected by it or like scared,” she says. “New York is the first place I felt like I belonged here. I don’t feel like I need to pretend to be something I am not or try to fit in because nobody fits in here. Everybody is different. But when this thing happened, there have been so many attacks on Asians. It’s the first time I felt like people are pushing me out.”
She recalled meeting up with two of her team members, who are also Asian, to pack online orders a few weeks ago, and noticing they were all wearing hats and glasses in addition to their masks. “I was like, ‘Oh my god, we are matching today!’ And one of them said, ‘No, I just want to hide my Asian-ness because I am scared.’ I never heard that in my life before this… and I felt the same. This has been the hardest part,” she said. “I really hope that everyone sees that no one wants to go through this, and we’re all in this together. In the end, it’s about being humans.”
It’s that desire to inspire more humanity during a time like this that has made her double down on the positivity that she wants her next collection to imbue. And while it was Li’s wedding, which she described as a “dream,” that was the starting point, it has now evolved into something more universal, with people looking toward the happiest version of themselves in the future. “Claudia Li girl has always been kind of a dreamer, she is a misfit in some ways but she dares to dream,” she said. “So I want to push the idea further — which is, yeah, right now we’re in sweatpants and pajamas all the time, but that dream of when we go out finally again we could actually be wearing whatever the hell we want.”
With a sentiment like that, Claudia Li is what we’ll want to be wearing when that time finally comes.
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ऐक्ट्रेस मौनी रॉय भले ही लॉकडाउन के कारण घर में हों, लेकिन इस बाला का स्टाइल एक पर्सेंट भी कम नहीं हुआ है। वह इस दौरान भी इंस्टाग्राम पर फैन्स के साथ जो तस्वीरें शेयर कर रही हैं, उनमें उनका एक से बढ़कर एक स्टाइल देखने को मिल रहा है। लेटेस्ट तस्वीर में भी मौनी गॉरजस बाला लग रही हैं। शेयर्ड फोटो में मौनी कैमफ्लाश़ प्रिंट की पैंट्स पहनी दिख रही हैं। इसके साथ उन्होंने ब्लैक टॉप पहना था, जिसकी लेंथ उनके लोअर बस्ट लेवल तक थी। पैंट्स में जहां साइड में ब्लैक ऐंड वाइट की इलास्टिक मेड डिजाइन थी, तो वहीं टॉप में राउंड नेकलाइन और शॉर्ट हाफ स्लीव्स थीं। लुक को पूरा करते हुए मौनी ने एक हाथ में गोल्ड ब्रेसलेट पहना था और बालों को मेसी स्टाइल दिया था। इस आउटफिट को पहन मौनी ने जिस तरह से पोज दिया है, उसे देख साफ है कि यह सेक्सी अदाएं ऐक्ट्रेस ने अपनी टोन्ड वेस्ट को फ्लॉन्ट करने के लिए दिखाई हैं। उनकी इस तस्वीर को देख फैन्स भी क्रेजी हो गए हैं। वैसे यह पहली बार नहीं है जब मौनी ने ऐसे कपड़े पहन अपनी फिट बॉडी को फ्लॉन्ट किया हो। वह लॉकडाउन के दौरान ही कई बार ऐसे फोटो शेयर कर चुकी हैं, जिनमें उनकी स्लिम बॉडी हाईलाइट होती दिखी। इसके अलावा भी उनका इंस्टाग्राम ऐसे फोटोज से भरा पड़ा है, जिनमें मौनी अदाएं दिखाती हुई स्टाइल और ग्लैमरस लुक में नजर आईं।
इस बात में कोई दोराय नहीं कि बॉलीवुड सेलेब्स का पूरी दुनिया में बोलबाला है। अपने ड्रेसिंग स्टाइल से लेकर फैशन स्टेटमेंट तक वह कई कारणों से अक्सर सुर्खियों में बने रहते हैं। लेकिन तब क्या जब इन बॉलीवुड सेलब्स से आगे उनके बच्चे निकल जाएं। जी हां, बी-टाउन सितारे जहां अपने क्यूट लुक्स और ड्रेसिंग अवतार के लिए फेमस हैं उससे कई ज्यादा सुपर स्टाइलिश इनके किड्स हैं। इनमें से कुछ स्टार किड्स ऐसे भी हैं जिन्होंने अभी तक बॉलीवुड में अपने कदम तक नहीं रखे हैं लेकिन इसके बावजूद भी वो आज एक जाना पहचाना नाम हैं। ऐसे में आज हम आपको बताने जा रहे हैं 5 सुपर-फैशनेबल स्टार किड्स के बारे में...
ऐक्ट्रेस श्वेता तिवारी के लेटेस्ट फोटोज इंटरनेट पर धमाल मचा रहे हैं। उनकी तुलना मॉडल बेला हदीद से की जा रही है। दोनों के फीचर्स से लेकर पोज देने का स्टाइल एक जैसा नजर आ रहा है। लेकिन क्या आप जानते हैं कि बेला हदीद आखिर है कौन? अगर नहीं तो अब जान लीजिए, क्योंकि यह महिला कोई छोटी-मोटी हस्ती नहीं है।
एक शादीशुदा महिला के वॉर्डरोब कलेक्शन या फिर ब्राइडल ट्रॉउसी में एक पारंपरिक कांजीवरम साड़ी बहुत मायने रखती है। हथकरघा कढ़ाई से बनी इन साड़ियों में उड़ेले गए अद्भुत और जटिल डिजाइन, इनकी सुंदरता और चमक के कारण इन्हें खास बनाते हैं। लेकिन क्या आप जानती हैं कि कभी-कभार बेहद सुंदर दिखने वाली यह कंजीवरम साड़ी असल में नकली भी हो सकती है। जी हां, हम महंगे से महंगे दाम में एक नकली कांजीवरम साड़ी को घर ले आते हैं जिसकी सच्चाई जानने के बाद हम ठगा सा महसूस करते हैं। अगर आप भी जानना चाहती हैं कि क्या आपकी कांजीवरम साड़ी सच में असली है? तो इसकी पहचान आप इन पांच बातों से लगा सकती हैं।
