Madame Haute Couture...

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Meet the Leg Breaker, Her Highness Armadillo!

Imagine a world submerged in water, and man in the process of devolving into fish again! At least that's what McQueen wanted us to conjure during his Spring 2010 show. Maybe in a watery world a one foot tall heel might help humans wade above water till the "devolution" into sea creatures is complete! Yet as things stand today are these Armadillos, the giant sisters of stilettos an absolute necessity or a gross fashion crime?

First it was the issue of the reed thin models getting thinner every year and now with shoes like these with each passing year they seem to be getting taller as well! Seriously, is a 6 foot tall model wearing a one foot tall heel and weighing 95 lbs the new definition of beauty? Or is it just that McQueen is tired of fighting his legal battles with Steve Madden and hence created something that is copy proof?

What is the limit for this "thin as a reed and tall as a tree" obsession? Is it time to set some standards for maximum permissible heel height as well?

To muse, baring the affordability factor would you do the Armadillos? If so, why? And designers please DON'T KILL THE MODELS with your perverted ideas of fashion!

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Here comes the Bride...

In these recessionary times, if the idea of splitting the bills over accommodation and sundry expenses still doesn't convince you to tie the knot then Carolina Herrera gives you plenty of other reasons why a Spring wedding might not be a bad idea after all!! "Get hitched" screams Carolina Herrera's Spring 2010 Bridal Collection!! The collection is very comprehensive in the sense that irrespective of whether you are the traditional bride who would like her bridal gown fluffed up or whether you are the modern New York city bride, who wants a bit of quirkiness added to your white dress, there never seems to be a want of choices.Go ahead and walk the aisle...

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John Galliano's Fall 2010 Inspiration

After John Galliano's journey through the Silk route and his brief flirtation with Russia, its only so natural for the curiously inclined to wonder where his imagination will land him next? And the answer is the once magical exotic land of snake charmers, elephant mahouts which had now transformed itself into a receptacle of "outsourced" jobs.With a population close to a billion plus and the entire bourgeois' aspiration squaring on a career in information technology as a passport to a five figure salary, its only so natural that software jobs come to India by the millions.Without further digression from the topic, the current economic downturn in the US and Europe black holing all spending habits, its the emerging markets like China and India that hold sway for the luxury markets.The new emerging rich of India cannot wait to flaunt their ever more newly acquired wealth.

In addition to the economic compulsions, India is a land of diversity with as many as two dozen spoken languages, each state having its unique culture, cuisine and clothes.So whether its the Kancheepuram silks of Tamil Nadu, the mundus of Kerala, the chikan embroideries of Lucknow or the cotton sarees of Bengal, there is never a dearth for design inspiration and as for translating all these to the runway, who else but John Galliano, with his expansive imagination, can do better justice?

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