Thursday, June 29, 2006
Color plays a vital role in our life - by Mystique Asia Design Team
Choices vary from person to person & place to place. This is actually depending on the climatic conditions of an area but be sure that the main aspect of color choice is personal like & dislike. Even in our homeland, choice varies from region to region. Our rural side & Northern areas like brighter colors as compare to the urban society. We can also observe a prominent change among cities. Like Karachi-ites prefer to wear lighter colors as compare to other cities specially Punjab side. Another reason of liking cooler colors by Karachi-ites is ‘weather’, because Karachi has hot & warm weather throughout the year. Winter is just for 20 days or a month. That is why they prefer to wear these colors. Well Karachi girls have still not forgotten to wear white shalwar & dupatta. This is the most famous choice especially in summer. Whereas Lahore & other cities are crazy about bright colors such as deep purple, orange etc. etc. Another interesting thing is that all the bright & loud shades are in fashion these days. Even we are passing hot summer but people still like to wear turquoise, dirty pink, deep yellow, magenta & orange family. Applied designs of dresses are also too bold, like sequins & other shiny embroidery stuff are in latest fashion these days. Black is an English choice & is all time favorite.
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Monday, June 19, 2006
Yousuf Bashir - from Hollywood to Pakistan
Yousuf Bashir, has returned to Pakistan after extensive professional success with many big names in Hollywood movies, haute couture, fashion houses and garment firms. Yousuf's creations are spun from high quality fabrics and hand-loom French chantilly, distressed suede or delicate cashmere knits, steeped in colour.
A writer, entrepreneur, artist and designer, fluent in Urdu, Sindhi, Seraiki, Punjabi and Spanish, Yousuf now intends to bring his talent home to Pakistan, and the opening of his design house in Karachi should provide a welcome addition to the fashion scene.
Yousuf moved to Los Angeles in 1997, setting his sights on Hollywood and the music industry. His first high-profile client was Madonna whom he was introduced to by Arianne Phillips (Mod Squad). He made Madonna's costume, her set and the clothes for her dancers at the Enchante MTV Awards which included Madonna's "Om Shanti" video. He then started working closely with Sheryl Crow and subsequently designed for Alanis Morissette and Jewel as his career snowballed, primarily as a music video designer handling both set design and garments. His creations have been worn by Naomi Campbell, Tyra Banks, Brook Shields, Angelina Jolie, Oscar winner Denzel Washington and many others. Later on he shifted from mainstream Hollywood to more independent sort of films, docu-dramas filmed like documentaries but scripted, or historical pieces for which I do my own research."
Yousuf Bashir has set up his design studio in a fairly large warehouse in the financial district of Karachi with all facilities and a fairly decent fashion & art library which is open to all Artists. He says that Karachi is the smallest biggest town I have ever seen. Something the city has not seen, something the city deserves."
A writer, entrepreneur, artist and designer, fluent in Urdu, Sindhi, Seraiki, Punjabi and Spanish, Yousuf now intends to bring his talent home to Pakistan, and the opening of his design house in Karachi should provide a welcome addition to the fashion scene.
Yousuf moved to Los Angeles in 1997, setting his sights on Hollywood and the music industry. His first high-profile client was Madonna whom he was introduced to by Arianne Phillips (Mod Squad). He made Madonna's costume, her set and the clothes for her dancers at the Enchante MTV Awards which included Madonna's "Om Shanti" video. He then started working closely with Sheryl Crow and subsequently designed for Alanis Morissette and Jewel as his career snowballed, primarily as a music video designer handling both set design and garments. His creations have been worn by Naomi Campbell, Tyra Banks, Brook Shields, Angelina Jolie, Oscar winner Denzel Washington and many others. Later on he shifted from mainstream Hollywood to more independent sort of films, docu-dramas filmed like documentaries but scripted, or historical pieces for which I do my own research."
Yousuf Bashir has set up his design studio in a fairly large warehouse in the financial district of Karachi with all facilities and a fairly decent fashion & art library which is open to all Artists. He says that Karachi is the smallest biggest town I have ever seen. Something the city has not seen, something the city deserves."
