October 2006
Miss Universe 2006 visits Mumbai's Siddhivinayak temple
Mumbai: After
claiming the Miss Universe title 2006, 19-year-old Zuleyka
Rivera is in India on a two-week- long AIDS awareness campaign.
On Tuesday night she visited Mumbai's famous Siddhivinayak
temple. Rivera expressed her happiness at visiting the temple.
"Namaste, everyone. It's a real pleasure and honour to be
here in your temple and I pray for all the things that I want
as you do when you come here," said Zuleyka Rivera The beauty
queen is leading an AIDS awareness campaign that will take
her to 12 other cities, including New Delhi, Bangalore, Kolkata
and Chennai. Rivera hopes to make AIDS awareness fashionable
and her message is - 'Get tested for AIDS, it's in fashion'.
Having been a part of this initiative for three years, fashion
designer Sanjana Jon and filmmaker Mani Ratnam joined the
the Puerto Rican beauty in paying obeisance at the temple.
On November 6, they'll be joined by 10 top US models in a
fashion show to promote the cause.
-Oct 25, 2006
For Tibetan women, beauty pageant is their
'window to the world'
Dharamsala:
Contestants vying for the "Miss Tibet 2006" title in Dharamsala
feel that exposure to modern mainstream will help to give
more exposure to Tibetan women. The contest that began with
six contestants, the highest ever in a beauty contest conducted
in the town, is now left with five after the swimsuit round
on Friday. Traditional Tibetans disapprove of the public display
of women. Most women in the conservative society wear ankle-length
skirts and long-sleeved blouses. "I am very glad to get this
opportunity and I want our girls to come forward and participate
in this beauty contest in the coming year. When we are getting
this opportunity we must grasp it and try to contribute for
our country. I find it very nice and encourage everyone out
here to come forward," said Tenzin Palmo, one of the contestants.
"We Tibetan women are acclaimed everywhere so why not grasp
this opportunity," Palmo added. Organised for the fifth consecutive
year, the competition has always courted controversies, seeing
only one participant in 2005. Contestants say the event has
helped them to realize their dreams. Tibetan lawmakers say
the event is part of their attempt to keep abreast with changing
times. The participants are following a strict regime of meditation
and yoga. The pageant concludes on Sunday.
-Oct 14, 2006
Tech-spiritual harmony in Indian fashion
Washington:
New York-based and India-born fashion designer Anand Jon
believes Indian fashion is here to stay and the intricate
designs with a heritage dating back almost 5,000 years is
giving designers in the West a run for their money. "Don't
deem this a fleeting dalliance. I don't think you can call
something that is 5,000 years old a trend. The nature of my
heritage is to evolve. So, we don't hold something up to be
too sacred," The Washington Post quotes Jon, as saying. According
to Jon, the harmonisation of technology and spirituality insofar
as Indian fashion is concerned, is something many Americans
admire, and Indians, per say, would be quite flattered by
the demand that Indian designs have abroad. That evolution,
he says, is adequately reflected in Louis Vuitton's journal
"A Passage to India: The New Travel Notebook on Mumbai." It
features watercolors that show both the tradition and changes
in the city formerly known as Bombay. Then, he says, there
are the two Los Angeles entrepreneurs mass- marketing the
ancient ice cream of Mughal emperors for a U.S. audience.
Kulfi Bars feature flavors such as saffron and the rose and
noodle of a customary icy faluda drink, alongside the safer
- - more American -- strawberry. It should, therefore, not
come as a surprise that Diwali, the festival of lights, will
bring in a fresh array of fashion treats, besides other goodies.
-Oct 2, 2006
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