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Pakistani Fashion Keeps The Flag Flying High
Lahore to display its style streak
Young designers will display a total of 62 unique creations based on specific themes * Workshops for young fashion designers to train them for the upcoming KFW By Ali Usman LAHORE: ‘Step Fashion Montage’, a one of a kind fashion show, being organised by the Step Institute of Professional Development is all ready to set the ramp on fire. The event will begin on Monday at the heart of the Mall Of Lahore. The event will not only give a platform to aspiring fashion designers to display their prowess but also provide an opportunity to young models 14 female and three male to walk on the ramp for the first time. What else: around 200 professionals from the fashion and textile industry are expected to grace the event with their presence. Theme-based collections: The show will display theme-based collections. Saima Bashir, one of the novice designers will display a collection of four costumes based on the theme of ‘Old Lahore’. Her outfits are a blend of traditional old Lahori motifs on western cuts. “Such events could give an opportunity to young fashion designers and models to display their skills,” she said while appreciating the initiative. Some of the other participants, including Kashif Samuel and Seher Niazi would display a collection inspired by ‘Beggars’ and ‘Chinese Art’, respectively. “It has been a nerve shattering yet enthralling experience so far,” Seher said while talking to Daily Times. Another participant, Maria Azam, whose collection was based on the unique designs and motifs of the ‘Kelash Valley’, said, “I am very confident my costumes will create ripples”. A total of 62 brand new and unique creations would be displayed at the fashion show. Fashion workshops: Karachi is set to host workshops for professionally untrained fashion designers to qualify them for the upcoming Karachi Fashion Week (KFW). The KFW will be one of the biggest fashion events in the country and will be held from January 31 to February 3. The organiser of KFW, Arshad Siddiq, told Daily Times that 20 students from Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad would be attending these workshops. He said some of them would also be given a chance to participate in the KFW. Gohar Ajmal, a renowned fashion designer from the United Kingdom and Italy wil conduct these workshops. “The country needs more fashion weeks to make fashion a full fledged industry and consequently will help portray a softer image of Pakistan,” Siddiq said. He added that fashion is about sophistication and not money and even people with moderate incomes could afford to be fashionable, all it requires is a little know-how.
Courtesy Daily Times
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There is nothing in the papers.
Apparently, you have no shame. You have no answers but yet are content with stripping yourself and letting us bask in the ugliness that lies underneath……
your bankruptcy is total…..
Two thoughts come to my mind after following this discussion:
1) Nothing brings out the religious lot swinging with Quranic verses like women not dressed appropriately. I was struck by the virtue and vice squads in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan under the Taliban, and more recently in the Taliban occupied Pakistani areas; their Islam would start invariably with subjugating women, making sure they are covered, making sure any worldly activities involving woman are curbed firmly. Female schools, music CDs and cinemas are the first casualties wherever religious fanatics swoop in. Somehow covering up women is the start and the end of Islamic rule.
None of the religious groups mentioned above have ever offered a social plan on how to alleviate poverty. None of them ever have delivered an economic plan to increase society’s prosperity. The rule of Islam is just expressed first and foremost by making sure that women are covered.
It does not matter if the woman does not want to cover herself. It does not matter if woman wants to bare her shoulders, put on a dress that makes her feel beautiful. What matters for them is what the Sharia has ordained. Individual choices mean little in the world of extremists.
Here is the deal; my version of modernity gives folks like Kashifiat, Ummi, Talkhaba (shall we call them the Vice Squad, naming each of them individually is a bit tedious) complete freedom to preach their view of purity and self piety to the others, provided they do not use force others or spread hatred against sects and practices they do not agree with. They are most welcome to quote Quranic aayaats and Hadiths to anyone; they have full freedom to proselytize, yet no coercion against anyone would be allowed. With the same token, the society is free to live a life the way it wants, as long as individual’s safety and liberties are not threatened. It is a two way street; freedom to preach, as well as freedom not to accept the religiously mandated lifestyle.
2) @ Clarifier: First of all, welcome to PTH (I have not read you before therefore assuming you are new here).
Regarding your questions to Kashifiat (and the Vice Squad in general), I predict that you will not hear anything from the VS. They have spewed a lot of venom in their fiery sermons in the empty Urdu newspapers and magazines, and are not ready to be quoted for the hateful stance they have taken against minorities. From what I have noticed about them over the past year on PTH (and my occasional forays on to their blogs where I wrote a few comments), they are a low lot, latching on to their version of religion, because they have nothing else to stand upon. Their thinking as reflected in their comments, show a marked paucity of humanism, a world starkly black and white, a human defined first by the religion or sect he was born to, than anything else. They are an unfortunate reality of the society all around us; and their counterparts are found abundantly in each religion and culture, where the minds seldom venture beyond their own Holy books or the color of their flags that they wave.
They do however enjoy the right to air their emptiness here on PTH. To block them is unfair towards them; to engage with them is being unfair towards ourselves. There are much better topics to discuss in the world, then to engage with a bigot who seems to think he is superior because he alone possesses the correct word and creed.
Let’s leave them at that. And by the way, the pictures are beautiful. Haute Couture by definition is a bit exclusive; yet never have a good fashion failed to permeate through the whole society. All the reason for us to be proud of the creativity of Pakistani designers amongst all the negative news that invariably engulf us these days.
Let fashion be fashion! YLH I do agree with your analysis but the point was not intended @ the models, it was directed at the consumers and their taste of fashion does reflect the Pakistani society per say. That said modernity and secularism cannot be deduced by what one wears.
Pls read
http://kashifiat.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/%d8%a2%db%81%db%8c%da%ba%d8%8c-%d8%b3%d8%b3%da%a9%db%8c%d8%a7%da%ba-%d8%a7%d9%88%d8%b1-%d9%81%db%8c%d8%b4%d9%86-%d8%b4%d9%88%d8%b2/
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I know it is hard to believe for jamaat e islami kay paltoos …but some people have work to do during the day. Will see pending comments when I get the time.
Wish the “flag” had been flying even higher. Someone shud have kept a table fan next to the ramp.
Good show though!!!
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Mr. YLH or Mr. Busy !
What “Other”u do instead of speading your own narrow vision of your own eutopia.
On the contrary lot of time in spending liberal garbage & have no time to approve link
What a non- sense.
@AZW,
I completely agree with you when you say that many would like to prove their Islamicity by subjugating women, and indeed other than women, the targets are cinema and music CDs.
For the sake of being able to lead a sane and enjoyable life, you should pray that TTP never rules Pakistan.
Religion means practising (some kind of a) fascism in the name of a god or god-construct. This is especially true of this religion from 7th century Arabia. Fascism needs to suppress women. Otherwise it cannot survive and “prosper”. Fascism develops perverse ideas of chastity, obedience, subservience, flattery and pseudo-martyrdom in order to suppress women and misuse men. Fascism must reduce women to pleasure-givers and house-maids for men and reproduction-machines for producing new generations of fascist soldiers. This is especially heinous when done in the name of a god or god-concept.
Leave aside the past 1400 years, even the last 62 years of Pakistan are an ample, cogent and convincing proof of this.
A pakistani woman (with a muslim name) wrote to me that men have it worse under this 7th century arabic religion because this religion is sexually cruel to women, but even more violently cruel to men. She wrote that some men are subjected to far worse physical cruelties than many women.
It is a religion for masochists. A masochist is unhappy when he sees a human being who is not suffering like himself. When a masochist invokes god for his masochism, for his own sufferings and for those of others, then he really brings hell on earth.
The idea that a book contains final perfect truth is itself a masochist idea. Such an idea is extremely useful for inflicting maochism upon mankind.