Western culture is developing a grand love affair with the distinctive fashion style that is India. Along with Indian music and spirituality, Indian Clothing is having a huge impact on the mainstream identities of western style and culture.
The latest designer shows from Armani, Fendi, and Miyake all draw on elements from the exotic Indian culture. Dries Van Noten, one of the new fashion leaders, recently presented a collection of layered chiffon wraps, dresses, saree, and kurta look-alikes.
The color palette these western designers are drawing from is as vibrant as a Rajasthan desert at sundown, using rich golds, reds, and greens.
Indian designers like Sunita Shankar, Vandanna Roy, Ritu Beri, Monisha Jaising, Ravi Bajaj and Krishna Mehta are leading the way in redefining Indian fashion. Rohit Bal presented his latest collection, Sanskrit, at a New York benefit gala organized by Children's Hope, and stunned the audience with exquisite embroidery, beadwork, and tie-dye fashions, with a decidedly Indian flair.
For men, luxury that draws insight from the 1950's is leaving its mark on masculine fashion you are also seeing a demand for embellishment. The 'metrosexual', an urban male who is comfortable with his feminine side, likes trendy and expensive clothes and accessories, including jewelry.
The notion of the Metrosexual man is driving a demand for masculine jewelry. Until a few years ago, men wore only an unremarkable pair of cuff links and a wedding band. Today's man is confident enough to enter the female world of adornment, opting for jewelry that is bold, sporty and creative. Rubber, leather, steel and a variety of gemstones are the materials of choice, although traditional materials such as gold and platinum are also appreciated.
Mumbai (formerly Bombay) is the heart of the world's largest film industry, Bollywood. The South Asian answer to Hollywood cranks out larger than life legends, setting the silver screen on fire with their sex appeal. Bollywood's sex symbols have been creating steam across India and worldwide for about five decades and their sex appeal isn't all about showing cleavage or great butts. As we all know there is more to sex appeal than the physical attributes one has. This list consists of the female icons of Bollywood, who have impacted the history and changed the future of Bollywood.
1. Amitabh Bachchan: Amitabh is sexy because he is 6'3" and still looks amazing in his 60's. Those of us who watched his movies as small children or while growing up have seen him mature into the distinguished gentleman he is. He's always worn the latest fashions and still dances step for step with actors half his age. He is also sexy enough to have two of the most beautiful women in Bollywood as off-screen love interests, his wife Jaya Bachchan and Rekha, whom he's done over 10 films with.
2. Rajesh Khanna:Rajesh Khanna is sexy because of his charismatic smile and the sensitive characters he played. His fans were so in love with him to the point that they would end their lives because they couldn't have him. When Rajesh Khanna married Dimple Kapadia, women reportedly committed suicide because they were grief stricken.
3. Shah Rukh Khan:Shah Rukh Khan has filled the gap left behind by Rajesh Khanna as the romance king. He is the Amitabh Bachchan of the 90's and the new millennium. He is constantly attempting to change the boundaries of Bollywood, either by choosing different scripts or with his many film production companies. He often works with his female friends Kajol, Juhi Chawala and Madhuri Dixit, which is why they always had great on-screen chemistry.
4. Aamir Khan:Aamir Khan is sexy because of his boyish charm and being called the Indian version of Tom Hanks. Throughout his career, he constantly reinvented his style, creating fashion trends. His cropped hair in the movie "Dil Chahta Hai" can still be seen on South Asian men throughout the world. He is also even better looking off camera.
5. Salman Khan:Salman Khan is sexy because he's shirtless in almost every film, showing off his rock hard body. He also has an innocent face with expressive eyes that captivates women's hearts. Salman Khan was one of India's pin up actors, especially after the success of "Maine Pyar Kiya"; teen girls both in India and beyond had posters of him all over their walls. People Magazine also voted him as one of the seventh best looking in the world during the peak of his career in 1999.
6. Dharmendra:Dharmendra is sexy because he is known as Bollywood's He-Man. He had super strength with a sensitive smile that caused many teenage girls to lust after him. He also had great comic timing, which made him totally erectable.
7. Rishi Kapoor:Rishi Kapoor was sexy because he was a fashion icon, sporting the latest fashion at the height of his career. He had the trademark Prince like features of the Kapoor clan with curly hair and pale skin. Since he is known as the Prince of Romance, he's been the object of female fantasies for over 25 years.
8. Hrithik Roshan: Salman Khan was responsible for Hrithik's look. Hrithik is sexy because Salman Khan taught him how to work out, eat healthy and sculpt his body. His female fans mobbed him after seeing his debut film and that same year he got 30,000 marriage proposals on Valentine's Day!
9. Raj Kapoor:Raj Kapoor was sexy because he made you feel everything his character emoted. He also had an acute sense of what was sexy on screen when it came to his film's leading ladies. He was responsible for Zeenat Aman's "barely there" look in the classic movie "Satyam Shivam Sundaram."
10. Jeetendra:Looking back at classic Jeetendra films, one might wonder how he gave the women of India fits of hysteria. His pants were too tight and all he did was dance atrociously. But back in his day, India had never seen someone dance like him. He would wildly wiggle his pelvis and do summersaults during dance sequences. He represented something forbidden and sexual, which made him a favorite with the ladies.
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Choices cant be counted in case of womens fashion but todays fashion world pays equal importance to both mens and womens apparels. Mens have become more fashion conscious and stylish so the designers have a target of this recently emerged market of mens fashion.
Many things got introduced for the mens on new and one of the variation is long and short kurta. Long kurta and pyajama was always a part of mens wardrobe in India for occasions but these kurtas are making there mark in foreign countries also and mens have started to look for something different other then there regular trousers and shirts. So the designers have tried to give this kurtas some casual and different look.
At first designers have tried to change the colour trends and secondly the design trends. Earlier there were some particular colours worn by mens that includes light shades and very earthy touch ups but now things have changed men does not hesitate to try the bright colours and textures and designs.
Zardosi, kantha, kashmiri, Phoolkari these types of embroideries and work like sequence and taara was not the part of mens fashion but now designers are trying every possible combination and decent motifs to create magic for men.
