Girl with the blue scarf

Thank God, I am TSF' ...that's Tall, Slim and Fair, say the young ramp aspirants who made a beeline to audition for the Lakme Fashion Week (September season) in Mumbai What makes for a good professional model? Well, not just tall height, good skin tone with a slim body, for sure, if that's your first guess. Instead, a whole lot of individuality that makes for a winner. And that's precisely what Lakme Fashion Week model auditioners looked out for, recently. Young ramp aspirants who fit the bill as TSF (Tall, Slim and Fair) lasses who came for the model auditions recently, went home with a realisation that it takes much more than physical attributes to take to the ramp. Incidentally, the minimum height criterion for female models has been increased from 5ft 7.5 inches to 5ft 7.7 inches for female models. Sorry guys! no male model auditions are planned to be held for the Mumbai Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2010 season. I happened to peek into the female audition rounds wher...

...And it costs only Rs 3,500 It so happens that I am currently basking in the glory of becoming designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee's first customer at his new boutique in Kalaghoda, Mumbai. Yeah! the feeling is 'ecstatic'. And before there is any assumption of the price tag of this saree that I recently bought, let me tell you it's only for Rs 3,500 (I wouldn't have invested in a saree for anything more than that though, for I don't wear sarees often). Sabya (as this Kolkata-based design genius is lovingly called) is supporting a non-profit initiative called 'Save the Sari' . With this, the handloom weavers of Murshidabad, a place near Kolkata, will get a new lease of life by way of funds for their livelihood. Sabya says that he has been sitting with the weavers for many months now and weaving cotton sarees with so much love.Today, these sarees are beautifully displayed at his store and come at a cost which wouldn't pinch even if you aren't truly a ...