STYLISH SQUABBLES





Fashionistas make news for things beyond fashion too. Here's to refresh your memory of the six biggest fashion controversies of the year...


Bollywood is not the only industry that is laden with controversies. The glamour world aka the fashion industry has its own share of announcements and faces that manage to grab eyeballs.
The year began with buzz about Puneet Nanda, of fashion brand Satya Paul, planning to quit his position as Creative Director of the company. While he didn't bother to come out and make his reasons known to the public, having to associate a different face with the brand took us some while to get adjusted to.
Fashion designer Manish Arora, probably India's best known export to the international fashion scene, too got caught on the wrong side, when he experimented with Indian Gods on some of his creations. A couple of leggings, harem pants and mini-skirts designed by Arora flaunted Indian Gods and that hurt the sentiments of some people. They took objection and suggested he gave a public apology.
Indian fashion's enfant terrible, Rohit Bal was in the news for his love life. Yes, the designer who is open about being gay split with his longtime boyfriend, model Lalit Tehlan. It came as a surprise because the two were spotted painting the town and the Capital red on quite a few occasions in the past few years. And as if that was not enough, Lalit apparently got married to another gal! But hey, Rohit and Lalit went on record to say that they are still friends and cared about each other.
It doesn't always happen that a model manages to grab eyeballs as soon as she sets foot in the industry. But model Angela Jonsson seems to have impressed lady luck as she became the talk of the town just for having dinner with actor Ranbir Kapoor. Gossip mongers worked over time and said that Angela was Ranbir's new girlfriend. That rumour died out pretty soon, but Angela was not just another model anymore.
The debate between which city is better — aamchi Mumbai or Delhi — is a never-ending one. And that argument is revisited twice a year in the fashion circuit, when the Mumbai and Delhi fashion weeks are hosted. Anil Chopra of the fashion week held in Mumbai and Sunil Sethi of the one held in Delhi are constantly at logger heads — wanting to prove their week as the best in the business. Of course, the verdict on that one is still divided, so it may be a few more years before a winner is actually declared.
A surge of fashion weeks doesn't seem to be the best thing to have happened to industry, at least, not yet. But hey, two of the weeks were talked about more than the rest. The fashion week in Mumbai went through a management overhaul and before designers could complain, the new team promised them that all their grievances would be addressed, pronto. Good move. And the recently concluded couture week in the capital was having its own share of title sponsorship problems. But they pulled it off, and that's what matters, doesn't it?


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