ON THE STREET - FASHION: SUMMER DRESS by Fajila Khatun

Summer can be a hard season to dress for, for working people who go outside everyday. There are a few reliable ways to dress for sweltering heat and humidity.When it comes to fashion, summer Street wear, you can style in amazing way and walk along the street with confidence. Summer season means, It's time to peel off the thick coats, sweaters, and tights that have constrained your body all winter long— so finally, your skin can breathe. 

Here are some Tips for Styling Summer Street wear Outfits.

There are plenty of ways to get your entire wardrobe ready for warm weather.

A Sundress and a pair of strappy Sandals

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Lace-up sandals are not for summer. Throw on a floral boho sundress with a strappy sandals  and your outfit is complete to flaunt the summer Street look.

Walk The Streets In Style

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Walking to your workplace ? Do it in style. Pick out a flowy printed dress that will keep you cool, a pair of leather flat sandals to save your feet and a hat- hair to make your look unique and stylish. 

 Printed Summer Dress and Heels

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 This is best for "office to happy hour," look. With a strappy heels to flaunt the summer Street style and comfortable too.

 '90s Skirt Suit and Sneakers

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Bring back the '90s! Grab a mini skirt and pair it with a pair of chunky sneakers. Most comfortable and goes great for summer Street style.

A Printed Top White Jeans and strappy heels

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White dress are perfect for warm days. Once you find the right pair of white jeans, you'll never want to take them off. It serves as the best base to flaunt the summer Street style.

A Embellished Skirt with a simple tee 

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 A classic white T-shirt is never a bad idea; it serves a casual look also it'll lend a casualness to your intense pencil skirt and a pair of strappy heels make more flaunting to walk on street with confidence.

An Anytime Summer Look 

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 A leather pencil skirt, and a black tank top and summery sandals is best for a stylish and work appropriate get-up.

A Skirt-Suit

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Find yourself an oversized plaid skirt-suit, an early aughts transparent belt, and finish off your look with some retro cat-eye sunnies for a summer Street style look.

A Patchwork Top With Jeans

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Give your weekend denim a boho touch with a patchwork Top and strappy sandals. This look also works perfectly for the office or happy hour.

Trousers and a Vintage Tee

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 Rock the street with a vintage tee and a pair of office-friendly work pants to bring up some inner confidence. 

Oversized Blazer With a sleep summer Dress

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Wearing jeans or pajamas are rage for summer warm days. So to walk freely on street to strain heat warm uncomfortableness, a silky slip dress and adding an oversized blazer on top, and a pair of sandals serves the best and comfortable look to flaunt the summer Street style.

 Skinny Jeans, and a graphic tee

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A graphic tee and jeans is very comfortable to strain heat warm uncomfortableness in summer warm days. Pickup a mule with a heel if you want an extra boost in height, which really gives confidence to walk on street with an positive, powerful attitude (taller = more confident / more powerful, right?). 

                                               

                                             By Fajila Khatun

   

CITY-LIFE LIVELY-LIFE : FASHION BLOGGERS ACROSS CITIES by Pratibha Murmu

Fashion Bloggers are those who follows and explore the fashion world. They share their experiences and ideas through social media. They cover all trendy fashion style from the largest fashion design houses to the smallest independent designers. A fashion blogger regularly writes blog with eye catching graphics and appealing content on the trending and popular topics.

1. Juhi Godambe 

    

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Juhi Godambe is one of the top most fashion bloggers in India. She blows our mind with her amazing sense of style and recreating fashion. She always love to click good pictures and loved experimenting with fashion. We can follow her sense of style by going through her page where she post her personal style and liking in fashion. She always make sure to reach to all those who have similar liking in fashion.

2. Komal Pandey

    

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Komal Pandey is an Indian fashion blogger and a youtuber. As we all know her as fashion stylist at the POPxo, which is an online Fashion community for women. She is all about fashion and for her fashion is like a therapy. She loves to try something new, unique and creative.

3. Kritika Khurana

    

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Kritika Khurana is an Indian social media influencer, fashion & travel blogger and youtuber. She is best known for her fashion blog "That Boho Girl". Her fashion blogs are the most trending blogs. She is expert in converting old, boring clothes into new, intersting and stylish. 

4. Jatinn Jay

    

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In a country where females are dominating the world of fashion, Jatinn make sure that the men are not left behind. His astounding looks has always impressed his fans. He is the founder of the blog "The Style Doodler". His unique blog name defines his uniqueness in style. He always follow the current fashion trends on himself.

5. Karron S Dhinggra 

    

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The gossip of fashion and style is incomplete without the name of Karron S Dhinggra. He has got unique looks for everyday outfit inspiration. He is the winner of 'Leading fashion influencer of the year 2019-20'. He gives fashion advice to men on YouTube. His page concentrates around clothing, luxury and grooming.

6. Shakti Yadav

    

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Shakti Yadav has re-created his urban style and everyone loves his fashion sense. His blogs are the best men's fashion blog to take inspiration from where he tries from creating trending looks to experimenting with fashion in best possible way. 

INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY- ONE MINUTE FASHION HACKS by Shivangi Rajput

ONE MINUTE STYLING:

Fashion changes with the changing times, also wearing a single outfit in many ways have been trending from quite long time.

When it is about getting dressed up, be it a girl or a women they never have same get up. Divided by states united by dresses in different forms. The greatest example of this is saree draping of different states. In different states the draping style of saree is different and unique in its own ways. If a girl decides to dress up they have enough options in which they can drape there saree to give a new look.

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Since the times saree was made, it is quite obvious that sarees are time consuming. So, in today's era people are innovating ways to give it a quick fix. After various trial, the people have innovated a new form of Saree i.e. "One minute Saree". One Minute Sarees are pre-made, pre-stitched sarees, so that anyone can wrap themselves in 6 yards of luster in less than minute. The best part is you can enjoy wearing you saree without any pins, tapes or hassles. Just clip on, wrap it around, and you’re done!

One minute Saree draping tutorial

Moving on from sarees a new fashion is trending a lot in social medias, and which is influencing the youth a lot. This trending fashion is creating new looks from a single outfit which is extremely budget friendly, saves money and is next to amazing. This one minute fashion hacks helps girls create new looks, make the best out of a single outfit and go with the trend and upgrade a new dress everyday.

You tube videos, Facebook pages and Instagram reels are greatest source for such contents. From the time this trend is viral the you tubers are getting vast content for making videos. Some times they share their own creative idea and sometimes they test out hacks shown on other channels or Facebook pages.

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Some of these famous Facebook pages who show interesting and sometimes weird fashion hacks are:

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Here are some videos and pictures to give a brief information about how can one style a single outfit in many different ways:-

1. T-shirt in 20 different ways (Spankie Valentine)

Spankie Valentine
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In this you tube channel Spankie Valentine, the you tuber is showing ways to style a plain white T-shirt into 20 different styles. Styling it with different types of skirts, checkered shirts, shorts, jeans and many more. Pairing a plain t-shirt with different attire to give it a new look is so innovative and aesthetic. 

2. Styling an old kurti in 10 different ways (Anaysa):

Anishka Khantewaal
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Jeetu Shree 
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In this You tube channel Anaysa, the two girls Aniska and Jitu are trying different looks like casual, wedding, indo-western, western, etc. from a single kurti set. 10 beautiful and budget friendly looks from a single outfit.  Isn't it amazing? 

3. Styling a maxi skirt (Spankie Valentine):

Spankie Valentine
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In this You tube channel Spankie Valentine, the you tuber is styling her maxi skirt in so many different styles. from a maxi skirt to mini skirt, a dress, a bodycon skirt, pairing up with leather or denim jacket and many more...from a skirt to so many outfits is so amazing and dear to girls. which is influencing the young girls and also the other you tube channels.

HIDDEN SECRETS OF INDIA - “HYDERABAD'S RISE AS INDIA'S ENTERTAINMENT TECH HUB” by Sounak Sarkar

 “Hyderabad’s rise as India's entertainment tech hub”

Films are the foremost remarkably effective medium in conveying drama and particularly within the evocation of emotion throughout the planet, and since the last decade, visual effects seem to be the new craze on the block. In India, Hyderabad is in the middle of all the action.

 

Production houses from the regional industry are collaborating with home-grown tech start-ups to form Hyderabad the hub of entertainment technology, specializing in VR, AR, and VFX. It just isn't big Hollywood filmmakers; Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, and other Indian language filmmakers are closely viewing how animation, VFX, and other technology can add their favour. However, the processing is just too expensive, hence local production houses are working with city-based start-ups to bring the tech and talent together.

Not everyone can afford to spend some hundred crores. This is often where start-ups get to play, to offer filmmakers and content creators access to technology that they'll use and experiment with.

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The necessity to mix the present supply of talent, technology, and start-ups led to the creation of Anthill Studios, a program founded together by start-up incubator and accelerator Anthill Ventures and Suresh Productions. It's an investment and speed-scaling platform for early-stage start-ups. It works sort of as a market access program, focused on accelerating the business growth of tech start-ups.

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Some investors, seeking anonymity, said while the space is difficult, content and therefore the demand for it is currently driving investments. However, not everyone seems to be hospitable to the concept of working with start-ups. Whether start-ups can add synergy with studios for the long run is yet to be seen. But Hyderabad seems to be occupancy the proper direction.

INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY - CELEBRITY'S WEIRD OUTFITS by Atish Ranjan Das

"Celebrity’s Weird Outfits"

Celebrities are followed and admired worldwide, especially those who isn’t afraid of taking risks, try new trends. Celebrities are mostly famous for their skills, for example someone is famous for singing, someone for acting or someone for dancing, or even someone at sports. But, getting applauded is not always the case, sometimes many celebrities are made fun of and this happens mostly when they try something new in fashion. It is not new for celebrities to get trolled because of their weird dress and fashion.

Let’s take a look at some of these weird dresses which grabbed a lot of attention.

·    Rihanna (2015) - Rihanna wore an omelette dress to the 2015 Met Gala fashion event. The theme was “China: Through the Looking Glass”. The dress was highly noticed and it received mixed reaction. Countless amount of memes was made to troll this weird fashion. Although the dress designer Guo Pei received a lot of fame for the dress.

 

   

Rihanna in an omelette dress
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Meme on that dress
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·     Billy Porter (2019)- The internet world found it very interesting also funny when in 2019 Billy Porter dressed as an Egyptian Pharaoh. The dress consisted a 10 feet long wings, a 24 karat headpiece. Billy Porter was carried by six attendants, dressed as ancient Egyptian servants.

Billy as an Egyptian Pharaoh
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 Men carrying the Pharaoh
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Bjork (2001)- The Iceland’s singer wore the “swan dress” at the Oscars 2001. The dress was one of the weirdest outfit ever seen in red carpet. The dress pretty much looked like a swam whose neck was wrapped around Bjork. But she didn’t stop there, to make the moment weirder she “lays” six eggs to throw the cameras and onlookers to a sea of amusement.

Bjork in the swam costume
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Meme meaning,
"Bjork laying eggs from the costume"
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     Priyanka Chopra (2021) - Priyanka Chopra is well known for her acting but she is also very much known for her weird fashion and dressing sense. Recently she wore a dress called “orb” for a photoshoot by Halpern Studios and it just took moments before a meme fest was launched online. Various memes began surfacing the internet. The actress found those memes funny and even shared them on her Instagram.  

Priyanka Chopra in Orb
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Meme on the dress
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HIDDEN SECRETS OF INDIA - “PABUJI KI PHAD” by Sounak Sarkar

“Pabuji Ki Phad”

Pabuji ki Phad; Source- Wikimedia commons

(Gujarat’s not-so-known artform)

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“Pabuji Ki Phad” is a religious scroll painting of folks deities, which is popular within the Indian state of Rajasthan. If deciphered within the literal sense, this translates into two versions namely, "The Screen of Pabuji or O, Read of ‘Pabuji’”. it's used for a musical rendition of the sole surviving ancient traditional folk-art form, Phad painting within the world of the epic of Pabuji, the Rathod Rajput chief. ‘Pabuji’ is additionally referred to as "the Ascetic Deity of Sand Desert". “Bhopas” of Pabusar are the bards and also priests who are the normal narrators of this form.

Padma Shree and Shipguru awardee
Shree Lal Joshi; Source- www.phadchitra.com

The Phad is additionally spelt as “Par.” The Phads or Pars are painted by professional painters called “citero”. Well-known professional painters are known by the clan name 'Josi' of the Chipa caste. Their expertise is in textile printing and that they operate from their traditional towns of Shahpura and Bhilwara within the Bhilwara district of Rajasthan. There is a minimum of seventeen or eighteen painters involved in painting this kind. However, Shree Lal Joshi and Shanti Lal Joshi are the foremost noted artists of the phad painting, who are known for his or her innovations and creativity.

“Pabuji Ki Phad” could even be a hereditary form passed on from father to son. The painting is drawn on cotton. This cloth is first prepared by applying a paste of flour and gum. It's then polished with a stone. An auspicious date is chosen for starting the painting since it's used for religious purposes by the Bhopas. Only earth colours or vegetable colours of indigo are used. Black is that the last colour paint used for the border. Again, on an auspicious day, the artist signed the painting at the middle of the painting, near the image of the foremost deity. thanks to the last act, the artist is claimed to relinquish 'life' or "awaken the deity" of the painting by opening the pupil within the eyes of the foremost deity at the middle of the painting. It is then, that it becomes the Pabhuji Ki Phad of the Bhopa, by whom it had been commissioned within the first place.

A documentary on "Pabuji ki Phad"; Source- YouTube

As mentioned by Captain John Smith, the earliest painting of a Phad or Par, a scholar of the "Epic of Pabuji" is dated to 1867. Colonel James Tod, the British Lieutenant reported of a ceremony that included a Par painting in 1819. With the stress on bardic narration of Pabhuji Ki Phad said to air the decline in recent times, painters of Pars or Phads also are making Phads as collector's items in smaller sizes and with different religious and other themes.

INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY - TOPIARY by Sanhati Saha

Topiary gardens represent the meeting point of art, nature, and human being when a garden is turned into beautiful greenery that is both delightful and brings a pleasant calming effect to one’s heart.

The art of clipping and shearing the shrubs, small trees and sometimes even herbaceous perennials into ornamental or abstract shapes is known as topiary. It is the horticultural practice by clipping the foliage and twigs of trees, shrubs and subshrubs to develop and maintain clearly defined shapes, whether geometric or fanciful.

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Topiary can be the most exciting feature of a garden with the forms of birds, animals, beasts, humans and lot more. The term is derived from Roman word “Topiaria” which means Ornamental Gardening. The love between humans and sculptured or clipped shrubs and trees is one that has been in existence since time immemorial. This creation of ornamental shapes  topiary can be traced back to the ancient times when man mastered the art of creating magical structures from nature. 

Plants which have numerous dark-green foliage and ability, stand frequent clipping and shearing, are suitable for topiary work. It takes many years to train and shape plants to attain desired shapes and sizes. A lot of attention, a substantial amount of labor, and a group of dedicated gardeners are involved in raising such plants.  The topiaries themselves take time and skill to sculpture, but when done correctly, the results will be worth every sweat.

 WORLD'S MOST FASCINATING TOPIARY GARDENS

1. Levens Hall, England

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This topiary garden is located in Cumbria, England. It is probably the oldest garden that still possesses the original design that dates back to 1694. In here, there are over 100 topiary pieces still spotting their shapes designed by Guillaume Beaumont in the 17th century.

 

2. The Marqueyssas, France

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This topiary garden in Vézac, France, offers visitors an all-encompassing and surreal landscape. Shaping up in the year 1861, the owner of the garden, Julien de Cerval, started a journey of making the place into the glamor that it is this days.

3. Ladew Topiary Gardens, Maryland

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The Ladew Gardens are a 22-acre nonprofit topiary garden found in Monkton, Maryland. It was established by Harvey S. Ladew  in the 1930s. The grounds are divided into 15 “garden rooms,” with each room having its own color, theme or plant. What is more stunning about the gardens is their topiary, which is English inspired due to Ladew’s frequent travels to England for fox hunting.

Topiary gardens give any landscape an added dimension in its thrill. Topiary gives the impression of the old world and goes well with old buildings and cottage gardens. The topiary feature gives your garden a classical or vintage look, and it can be fitted into a formal garden. In India, the hanging gardens (Kamala Nehru Park) of Mumbai is famous for its topiary work.

(Giraffe shaped topiary in Kamla Nehru Park, Mumbai)

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