Saturday 22 December 2012

‘Pitara’ - The Trunk Show - A Box Full of Surprises & Delights




As consumerism grows and fashion hits at you from all sides - ads, fashion events, store displays, crowded malls, television, online sales - there may come a point when you want to hide from it all... well temporarily anyway! That’s why celebrities today want private fashion shows in the penthouse suite of fancy hotels, previews of upcoming fashion collections for their eyes only, before everyone sees them - yes the world is moving from customisation to personalisation to the ultimate exclusivity of ‘just-for-you’ fashion. 



While not exactly the same - somewhat fitting for a fashion loving group is a ‘Trunk Show’. An opportunity to feel the excitement of rummaging through heaps of clothes without the push and pull of holiday shoppers and noisy drama. Therefore, ‘Pitara’ the Bangalore Fashionistas first in a series of interesting trunk-shows offering collections roped in with themes, fun and surprises.


This time the theme was Christmas (obvious) the collection was hand-crafted ethnic wear on festive coloured, cotton and cotton silk from the interiors of UP and the surprises were the value-for-money bargains.




Ladies loved it. Biggest hits were the mustard coloured fabric, the intricate thread-work, the wide selection and the prices.




Then there was the added Christmas spirit from the mulled wine, plum cake, pizzas, cookies, chocolates and strawberries and cream. Carols in the background and fashion books to browse through... an evening with friends in a cozy setting - here’s to many more new and interesting trunk shows. Next time - with a private fashion show as well!

If you live in Bangalore or visit often you can check out the Bangalore Fashionista's Meet Up Group on this link


About Beluxed Fashion
Conceptualised by 3 batch-mates in 2011, Beluxed Fashion is an online luxury fashion rental service that aims to bring an extended wardrobe to its members through leased access to the world’s most iconic luxury fashion brands.
Beluxed believes that luxury is not about ownership and flaunting expensive labels but about refinement and appreciating perfection in design and quality. Therefore, our philosophy is inclusive luxury for the practical fashionista.
Coming soon to India, Beluxed Fashion services will be available on a pan India basis through online subscription.
To stay updated and enter exciting contests please join our community on facebook/beluxedfashion


Saturday 8 December 2012

Fashion from the Streets of Bali


So, I went on this short vacation to Bali and wanted to capture it’s entire culture, tourism, history, food on camera - like every holiday goer... but this is not a travelogue so I should get to the part where I thought it would be fun to get a look into what the fashionable are wearing on holidays to Bali and afcourse what the balinese beauties wear - for work or leisure...

Naturally, I shopped there as well and thought I should share my delight in the bargains I got from Bali...

First of all, Bali is great for a lovely beach holiday... white sands, clear waters, beautiful sunrises and sunsets (depending on which side of the island you are...) so everyone is in gorgeous beachware... what I found most interesting apart from the sarongs, loose cover-ups and colourful prints - was ‘the sarres’ - a very practical and clearly ingenious beach-wrap-sarong with 2 arm loops that make it perfect and fashionable. Must have one on my next trip to a sunny seaside...









Then there is this fantastic blend of the western and oriental that Bali is famous for - afcourse it’s a nearly 100% Hindu state with well preserved culture that dates back centuries. They definitely keep it alive as it’s the mystery of Bali that drives thousands to its temples, beaches and cultural centres, year after year.
The ladies wear a beautiful silk and brocade pencil skirt with modest jacket style top - lots of bright colours and bold motifs - truly oriental chic...








Always my favourite - the shoes - like anywhere else in Asia - large heeled clogs and colourful strappy sandals were the order of the day...  (i got me one...)


The eyes saw more than the camera remembered to capture - but I will be better prepared for my next street fashion blog on my next exotic vacation... 


About Beluxed Fashion
Conceptualised by 3 batch-mates in 2011, Beluxed Fashion is an online luxury fashion rental service that aims to bring an extended wardrobe to its members through leased access to the world’s most iconic luxury fashion brands.
Beluxed believes that luxury is not about ownership and flaunting expensive labels but about refinement and appreciating perfection in design and quality. Therefore, our philosophy is inclusive luxury for the practical fashionista.
Coming soon to India, Beluxed Fashion services will be available on a pan India basis through online subscription.
To stay updated and enter exciting contests please join our community on facebook/beluxedfashion


Tuesday 16 October 2012

October Covers

Kate Husdon - Bazaar

Rihanna - Vogue
The cast of The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Nylon

These are our favorite October covers - which do you like best?
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About Beluxed Fashion
Conceptualised by 3 batch-mates in 2011, Beluxed Fashion is an online luxury fashion rental service that aims to bring an extended wardrobe to its members through leased access to the world’s most iconic luxury fashion brands.
Beluxed believes that luxury is not about ownership and flaunting expensive labels but about refinement and appreciating perfection in design and quality. Therefore, our philosophy is inclusive luxury for the practical fashionista.
Coming soon to India, Beluxed Fashion services will be available on a pan India basis through online subscription.
To stay updated and enter exciting contests please join our community on facebook/beluxedfashion


How do you like your handbags?

We vote for the backpack! 
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About Beluxed Fashion
Conceptualised by 3 batch-mates in 2011, Beluxed Fashion is an online luxury fashion rental service that aims to bring an extended wardrobe to its members through leased access to the world’s most iconic luxury fashion brands.
Beluxed believes that luxury is not about ownership and flaunting expensive labels but about refinement and appreciating perfection in design and quality. Therefore, our philosophy is inclusive luxury for the practical fashionista.
Coming soon to India, Beluxed Fashion services will be available on a pan India basis through online subscription.
To stay updated and enter exciting contests please join our community on facebook/beluxedfashion


Tuesday 2 October 2012

Contest Results!

Hi everyone,

The "Swapping is the new Shopping" Contest is now closed and Roxanne is the Winner.
Congratulations to her !

Roxanne do mail us your postal address and number so we can send across your cool gift, we hope you love it. Don't forget to style it for us and post your pictures on facebook/beluxedfashion.


Roxanne is the winner of our "Swapping is the new Shopping" Contest.


About Beluxed Fashion
Conceptualised by 3 batch-mates in 2011, Beluxed Fashion is an online luxury fashion rental service that aims to bring an extended wardrobe to its members through leased access to the world’s most iconic luxury fashion brands.
Beluxed believes that luxury is not about ownership and flaunting expensive labels but about refinement and appreciating perfection in design and quality. Therefore, our philosophy is inclusive luxury for the practical fashionista.
Coming soon to India, Beluxed Fashion services will be available on a pan India basis through online subscription.
To stay updated and enter exciting contests please join our community on facebook/beluxedfashion

Thursday 27 September 2012

Swapping is the new shopping! (Contest now Closed)

We all love to shop but at times, our wallet doesn't love it so much. You may want to pick up that gorgeous dress or those killer heels despite the astronomical price but how often will you really wear those things? Thrice, maybe four times? After which that once loved piece of clothing will probably sit at the back of your closet gathering dust. 

Well, there is a solution to this - swapping. We all know about renting but what about swapping? How does that work? Let us break it down for you.

Websites like Threadflip allow you to put up clothing and accessories that you no longer use and exchange them for something new - something that someone else no longer uses! 

Another website that offers a similar service is Swapstyle.

So how does it work? 
All you have to do is take photos of the items you want to swap and put them up on the website - people can then browse through your collection of unwanted items and if they see something they like, you can swap that item with them for something new from their closet!

Here is where we come in - Swapzaar is going to give Indian customers a chance to do the same thing. This website will be the first of it's kind in India - the concept is the same, the only difference is that this is made especially for you guys so you don't have to go through the hassel of international shipping (and the costs that come with it!).

We are going to be launching our website soon so keep an eye out for us and get ready to swap till you drop! 

In the meanwhile, we have a really exciting contest for you to take part in - all you have to do is leave comment telling us what you think about this idea and you could win amazing gifts from Zara, Mango, Accessorize, and other cool store. You can either leave a comment here or visit our facebook page and leave us comment there - don't forget to like us while you're at it. 

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About Beluxed Fashion
Conceptualised by 3 batch-mates in 2011, Beluxed Fashion is an online luxury fashion rental service that aims to bring an extended wardrobe to its members through leased access to the world’s most iconic luxury fashion brands.
Beluxed believes that luxury is not about ownership and flaunting expensive labels but about refinement and appreciating perfection in design and quality. Therefore, our philosophy is inclusive luxury for the practical fashionista.
Coming soon to India, Beluxed Fashion services will be available on a pan India basis through online subscription.
To stay updated and enter exciting contests please join our community on facebook/beluxedfashion


Wednesday 19 September 2012

India Bridal Fashion Week 2012 GRAND FINALE

 
 
 
  
 
 
JJ Valaya was the final designer to show at the 2012 India Bridal Week. In true Valaya fashion, the clothes were extravagant and every piece exuded opulence. The garments were all made of luxe fabrics in deep maroons, bright reds, and firey oranges, and were etched with intricate gold embroidery. 
The stunning Nargis Fakhri closed the show in a maroon anarkali kurta and jooties.

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About Beluxed Fashion
Conceptualised by 3 batch-mates in 2011, Beluxed Fashion is an online luxury fashion rental service that aims to bring an extended wardrobe to its members through leased access to the world’s most iconic luxury fashion brands.
Beluxed believes that luxury is not about ownership and flaunting expensive labels but about refinement and appreciating perfection in design and quality. Therefore, our philosophy is inclusive luxury for the practical fashionista.
Coming soon to India, Beluxed Fashion services will be available on a pan India basis through online subscription.
To stay updated and enter exciting contests please join our community on facebook/beluxedfashion

Monday 17 September 2012

Pop Art Fashion Show

DLF Saket hosted a fashion show in it's Atrium with designers like Mark & Spencer, Boggi Milano, ELLE, Envy, Arrow, AND & Global Desi, United Colours of Benetton, Trendy Divva, Indian Terrain, Mother care ,Gini & Jony , Barbie, Jack n Jones, Vero Moda & Only showing a bevy of stunning garments. The show presented trendy kids wear, women's wear, and men's wear. 

 
 
 
Which look did you like best? 
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About Beluxed Fashion
Conceptualised by 3 batch-mates in 2011, Beluxed Fashion is an online luxury fashion rental service that aims to bring an extended wardrobe to its members through leased access to the world’s most iconic luxury fashion brands.
Beluxed believes that luxury is not about ownership and flaunting expensive labels but about refinement and appreciating perfection in design and quality. Therefore, our philosophy is inclusive luxury for the practical fashionista.
Coming soon to India, Beluxed Fashion services will be available on a pan India basis through online subscription.
To stay updated and enter exciting contests please join our community on facebook/beluxedfashion




Sunday 16 September 2012

NYFW Favorites #3

Which Alexander Wang look did you like best?
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About Beluxed Fashion
Conceptualised by 3 batch-mates in 2011, Beluxed Fashion is an online luxury fashion rental service that aims to bring an extended wardrobe to its members through leased access to the world’s most iconic luxury fashion brands.
Beluxed believes that luxury is not about ownership and flaunting expensive labels but about refinement and appreciating perfection in design and quality. Therefore, our philosophy is inclusive luxury for the practical fashionista.
Coming soon to India, Beluxed Fashion services will be available on a pan India basis through online subscription.
To stay updated and enter exciting contests please join our community on facebook/beluxedfashion


Tuesday 11 September 2012

NYFW Favorites #2

Which was your favorite DVF look? 
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About Beluxed Fashion
Conceptualised by 3 batch-mates in 2011, Beluxed Fashion is an online luxury fashion rental service that aims to bring an extended wardrobe to its members through leased access to the world’s most iconic luxury fashion brands.
Beluxed believes that luxury is not about ownership and flaunting expensive labels but about refinement and appreciating perfection in design and quality. Therefore, our philosophy is inclusive luxury for the practical fashionista.
Coming soon to India, Beluxed Fashion services will be available on a pan India basis through online subscription.
To stay updated and enter exciting contests please join our community on facebook/beluxedfashion

Monday 10 September 2012

NYFW Favorites #1

Which look do you like best? 
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About Beluxed Fashion
Conceptualised by 3 batch-mates in 2011, Beluxed Fashion is an online luxury fashion rental service that aims to bring an extended wardrobe to its members through leased access to the world’s most iconic luxury fashion brands.
Beluxed believes that luxury is not about ownership and flaunting expensive labels but about refinement and appreciating perfection in design and quality. Therefore, our philosophy is inclusive luxury for the practical fashionista.
Coming soon to India, Beluxed Fashion services will be available on a pan India basis through online subscription.
To stay updated and enter exciting contests please join our community on facebook/beluxedfashion


Friday 3 August 2012

Fashion Flashback - Sex & The City


Think Carrie Bradshaw i.e. Sarah Jessica Parker in Sex and The City and
the first thing that comes to mind, after Manolos, is the adorable tutu from the
opening credits (Did you know they bought that from a vintage store for $5?)
after which come a series of no less fabulous outfits. 
Needless to say, her tres chic wardrobe in the TV show as well as the movies has made for the object of many a girl's dreams.

Season One showed Carrie in various vintage outfits. All very stylish but
more on the comfortable, casual side. Even though she dressed well, she
was always more on the Plain Jane side what with her wild curly hair and all.
Her outfits ranged from borderline stylish to stylish but they were all very
evidently thrifted or vintage. As the seasons went on, her clothing became
more opulent. What started with a cutesy tutu ended with a tutu too; but a far
more extravagant one at that (the pink tutu dress Carrie wore when she went
to Paris? Last episode of the last season?) 

The last season was however, our favorite in terms of her wardrobe, as we loved all the big, tutu 
dresses she wore – the dusty gray Atelier Versace gown being one of the most prominent.

When the season started, she was a columnist from NYC who knew how to
dress well and had messy hair. Later, we see her as the author of the SATC
book, which consequently leads to a change in her style. She becomes a
lot more posh, a lot more elegant as opposed her previously eclectic sense
of style and, of course, her hair goes from just-out-of-bed to I-just-paid-my-
stylist-$500-bucks-to-make-my-hair-look-like-I-just-got-out-of-bed. If I were to
pinpoint where exactly this changes in wardrobe came about it would have to
be the fourth season and then the sixth season.

Her shimmery, nude, strapless dress and her yellow crinkle, A-line skirt were
some memorable outfits from season two and season three saw her in the
black one shouldered dress with the oversized broach that became oh-so-
chic after it was seen on the show. 


Season 3 also gave us a slightly more
eccentric Carrie who sported different colored Manolos and the black and silver Flapper-style dress.

In Season four she sported the most daring of all her
outfits – the cobalt blue coat with the nude, sparkly Dolche and Gabbana
undies for the runway show and also the slightly less out there striped A-
line skirt with the Gucci hip-bag. 
This was also the season in which she wore
her oh-so-many pearls-necklace which are today a must-have accessory.
Season five: Ms. Bradshow gave us the soon-to-iconic, Anna Molinari silk and
feather trim dress and the pastel-pink, 60s inspired baby-doll dress with the
Swarovski clutch. 

The full, floral, empire waist dress, the layered tunic with
the peddle pushers(she wore this in the “he broke up with me over a Post-it”
eisode?) and the black coat over the red and black polka dotted dress with the
green silk trim were two memorable outfits from season 6.
The Carrie from the movies was a whole different Carrie. Not to say that she
didn't exude the same charisma or was any less fabulous, the clothing was
just very different. 
A lot of her clothes in SATC The Movie were vintage (the
red and white flower peplum dress that she wore to the auction with the bright
orange Fendi hard pencil case?) but the still seemed far more high-end than
her previous look in the series where her vintage clothing looked vintage;
before the last few seasons, that is. It’s also a lot more edgy with some
pretty funky pieces like the studded belt that she wear almost throughout
the movie, the magenta, backless dress and also her Eiffel Tower purse
by Tommy Woods which was encrusted with 6,300 Swarovski crystals and
cost a whopping $3000. Known to “merch up” her outfits with handbags and
shoes, Carrie seen holding an array of delightful handbags like the Salvatore
Ferragamo pheasant feather bag. In the last season where the girls all head
out to a NYC nightclub, Carrie sported a gorgeous printed ensemble with a
pair of Dior sandals and a VBH handbag. 
Another big part of the movie was
Carries to-die-for wedding gown by Vivienne Westwood which as many of you
may remember, “kicked her sweet little suit's ass” in the running for the perfect
wedding outfit.

The latest movie, which had a mere $10 million budget, gives us a Halston
Heritage-clad Carrie Bradshaw who seems to have traded her love for vintage
in for quirky. 

Plaid shirts with high-waisted denim capris and a Chanel canvas
tote and an adorable pair of Brian Atwood Loca Platform Pumps in light
blue suede with gold studding, the J'Adore Dior Tee with the HUGE
Zac Posen skirt, the flowy, bright orange maxi dress, the magnificent blue
strapless gown with gold detailing, the pink, one shoulder, Halston dress with
the multi-colored turban, the white tie and dye jumper, the green printed A-
line dress with a scalloped hem with an Adriana Castro Eva the clutch and
many, many more such outfits. Alongside the ever-present Manolos were
the Louboutins as well – she wore her shimmery purple-tiered dress with the
Christian Louboutin Sylvia Large Softy Calf Hobo Bag with Hand Wrapped
Leather Handle and the Christian Louboutin Gino Yellow and Black Round
Toe T-Strap shoes.

Vintage or high-end, quirky or simple - there is no denying that Carrie
Bradshaw is the epitome of style and we shall forever worship her fabulosity.

NOW while Carrie's outfit was very kindly curated by Patricia Field, not all of us are so fortunate as to come home to a new wardrobe every week - until now, that is.
BELUXED is going to let you rent your favorite luxury items and return them when you're done so that just like Carrie, you too can always be at your fashionable best.

So stay tuned for the launch of BELUXED and get ready to rent all the gorgeous pieces you see walk down the runway. 

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About Beluxed Fashion
Conceptualised by 3 batch-mates in 2011, Beluxed Fashion is an online luxury fashion rental service that aims to bring an extended wardrobe to its members through leased access to the world’s most iconic luxury fashion brands.
Beluxed believes that luxury is not about ownership and flaunting expensive labels but about refinement and appreciating perfection in design and quality. Therefore, our philosophy is inclusive luxury for the practical fashionista.
Coming soon to India, Beluxed Fashion services will be available on a pan India basis through online subscription.
To stay updated and enter exciting contests please join our community on facebook/beluxedfashion