Trends - 2011 Fall Colors

Colors of Fall 2011 are a mixture of  bright colors and neutrals, camel color from military look that was in vogue recently.  Romantic colors like red, mid night blue and ever lasting black & whites

             

 

Olives, Yellows, Beige are also pretty much in for this fall.

Decoding Manish Malhotra Collections

The most popular Bollywood Stylist, Designer and the Fashion Guru who dresses the Bollywood Divas Manisha Malhotra(MM) has a very unique stlye. His garments are luxurious with rich embroideries. The striking feature of his collections is flares and/or Kalis. He loves them so much that from 2008 all his collections are similar having flares and/or kalis with velvet, brocade borders and rich embroideries.

Not just MM this is the trend with most of the Indian designers. Their collections are of  luxurious  Indian colored fabrics with heavy embroidery. There is no variety I prefer to call them luxurious heavy embroidered garments rather than The Designer Collection.Would like to see designers who play with colors, silhouettes and textures(not just embroidery) especially  from established designers like MM. 

See the monotony of MM collection in pictures below

2008 MM Collection

2009 MM Collection

2010 MM Collection

2011 MM Collection - Fashion Week

.2011 MM Collection - Mijwan Fashion Show

Styling 

 MM is all here so lets talk about Anarkalis. No doubt Anarkalis look good for tall and thin frames but what about  petites or healthy women craving for one. Well we too can carry them with some care in selecting right one for our body type. Below are few tips

Choose Anarkalis that are of single color or shades of a single color that too dark color

Go for heavy embroidery or texturing at neckline or yoke of Anarkali

Avoid huge, heavy border and/or embroideries at hemline

Healthy women can go for minimum flare and small kalis instead of larger ones with fabrics like chiffon, Georgette

 Prefer embroidery or print that forms vertical lines or leave it plain , never go for embroidery or print that goes in circles

One last but not least must and should wear heels and ensure your hairstyle gives you little height(check June month Styling tips)