Articles with tag: fashion
Eid Mubarak!
Asad Dhanani Sep 19, 2009 interacts: 3I bought myself the usual white colored Qameez-Shalwar, with a full collar, no embroidery Qameez. Embroidery wasn’t my thing and the thought of having to pay extra to look less of a man was beyond me.
In the Belly of Time
saif ahmad Jul 14, 2009 interacts: 4If you ever see a Tourbillon escapement, you will be impressed with the miniature complex cage, taking turns and defying gravity. Its almost as if the artist gave life to a mechanical miracle.
Revolutionary for Sale
jehanzeb khan Jan 9, 2008 interacts: 9Clothing plastered with the portrait of socialist revolutionary Che Guevara is possibly one of the oddest and most self contradictory phenomena's of the 21st century.
Q for Qachas
Hassan Nasir Apr 7, 2005 interacts: 9Meera & Co. in shorts, doing Zuhr work-out at Fortress and leading Maghrib aerobics at Minar-e-Pakistan would do PR wonders for Nachta - Koodta Modern Pakistan.
Why Fashion Matters
Khadija Hassan Feb 19, 2005 interacts: 15According to Frieha Altaf, “Fashion in Pakistan is and always has been for the elite. It has two effects: a trickle-up effect, when street fashion comes into the main-stream; and a trickle-down effect, when fashion moves from the elite to the masses
Thank you George
Shandana Minhas Jan 27, 2004 interacts: 17In the wake of September 11, the ‘Muslim world’ has fallen headfirst into an identity crisis. While falling on one’s head is generally quite painful, the fall was buffered by the fact that the ‘Muslim world’ doesn’t rea
A Pocket Full of Faux Pas’
Khadija Hassan Dec 22, 2003 interacts: 20That’s the problem with money. It stifles creativity – instead of discovering one’s own style and sense, instead of honing one’s own eye by being forced to invent, to innovate one can just go and acquire another’s. Whether i
The Blackboards
Jagmohan Chadha Jul 3, 2003 interacts: 14Here is a bit of advice from some body who knows. Never be the middle child in the family if you can help it. Especially if your older sibling is the perfect son/daughter.
Bari Imam’s Republic of Peeristan
Hala Malik Jul 2, 2003 interacts: 46Before, this disease was limited to the illiterate population of Pakistan, but now it’s becoming more of a fashion for literate and well-known people to be seeing some Pir or Sufi. It’s the latest new trend.
Lanka - A Small Sashay
arti buxi Jun 27, 2003 interacts: 15On a fine March morning, I too packed my passport and landed into the hassle free Colombo airport. The way I see it, supreme happiness is ‘Visa on Arrival’.
Travels through America - Deep Thoughts
Nazar Khan Mar 5, 2003 interacts: 44Finally, it was one sight that took my heart and left a lasting impression on me of the beauty and simple innocence of a human being...
The Peshawar Rhapsody
Banjaara Jan 13, 2003 interacts: 26the most exciting city of Pakistan for its ancient ambience and romantic history of the proud pathan tribesmen who repulsed all attackers
A Comparison of Fashion
Omar R Quraishi Nov 2, 2002 interacts: 82I thought this would be a great chance to go see and judge where our fashion industry stood compared to India’s
The Kal Aaj Aur Kal of Secularism
Harish Nambiar Sep 23, 2002 interacts: 124There is a generation growing distant from religion, and yet engagingly indulgent of it. Not so much as a pathway to salvation as much as a familiar lane of the past.
The Evolution of The Burqa
Mohammad Qadeer Mar 23, 2002 interacts: 206It literally draws a curtain around a woman
Miss India, Huma, and my photo
Rehana Aslam Jul 4, 2000 interacts: 26my friends have even volunteered to pay for another photo
Unquestionable Changes?
Sobia Aslam Jan 25, 2000 interacts: 42Where did the sehra go?...once a part of the ~QThings to wear on the Big Day~R manual for men...
Aitchison: Scenes From Within
Asim Hayat Mar 3, 1998 interacts: 25...the old architecture, the grand cricket pitch in the main grounds, the smell of the rose bushes, the water heater radiators which never functioned well...
