Sabrina N Bhuiyan

At long last, the arduous days of summer are slowly but surely creeping away. Albeit at a snail’s pace, but we are happy nonetheless and the possibilities of winter days filled with celebrations are getting us excited and rightly so! A party on a winter day is cherry on the cake! Think romance, elegance, sparkle and sophistication! Your winter daytime event wardrobe must combine all of the aforementioned elements and then some. Subtlety is the name of the game, and yet it should stand out as well.

What comes to your mind at the mention of the word, blouse? The image that conjures up may be of your granny’s staid, starched kind that was essentially a glorified jacket or your mother’s modest kind with a high neckline and straight and mid-length sleeves! In 2022 however, blouses have gotten a serious, much-needed makeover because let’s face it, they totally make or break a sari!

A Hollywood legend, Monroe passed away at the age of 36 in 1962. Sixty years on, our interest and fascination with her life is at an all-time high. In the age of viral TikToks and Instagram stories that disappear in 24 hours, we are constantly bombarded with endless content, Marilyn Monroe has held her own like the superstar she will always be. Glamorous and sensuous, her on-screen persona is iconic in its own right.

Haters will hate and naysayers will dismiss it as frivolous and shallow but we women love our bags. And what’s not love about bags? They instantly bring sophistication and elegance to a look, help us carry our essentials in élan and add polish to an ordinary ensemble. Every season, exciting new trends emerge in the world of handbags, some more game-changing than others. While existing shapes and designs reign supreme, new shapes and designs are equally cool and deserve a spot in every stylish woman’s bag wardrobe.

To beat the summer heat in style, kurtis are a real godsend! A cross between kameez and shirt, kurtis can be anything you want and more. Our eternal love affair with kurtis is one for the books, and as a tribute to the comfort and joy they bring in our lives every day while making us look effortlessly stylish, let us rejoice in the countless ways we can fashion them!

All women everywhere are magpies at heart! Give us anything shiny, bright and brilliant and we are sold in a heartbeat! Glitter makes our hearts sing and sequins with all their sparkling glory hits right at the pleasure centres of our brains! For the longest time though sequins and all this shiny have been on the receiving end of relentless flak from naysayers who dismissed it as tacky and inelegant. Anything sequined would be deemed crass and unfashionable, unfit for polite society even where it’d raise many eyebrows and draw inevitable frowns from purists!

While every flower is special in its own right, roses are indeed exceptionally beautiful! It is no wonder then that Rojina Akhter, owner of Rose by Nizhu, chose to name her boutique after this extraordinary flower!

Bangladeshi fashion had hit a stalemate towards the beginning of the new millennium. Save for a handful of designers who were passionate about their craft, there was a massive dearth of high-quality clothes with original designs. 

Festive season this year is more special than ever before, for it arrives after the dreadful two years we spent in isolation. The spirit of Eid, which is celebrated in company of friends and family was lost completely.

The month of March is special for a Bangladeshi for multiple reasons, one being the Declaration of Independence announced by the founding father of our nation that mobilised forces at each and every level of our society to rise and fight for our country.

Your Muslin dupatta has a mind of its own; fluttering and swaying like the wondrous clouds of midday in the gentle wind, its sequins catching the late afternoon light and sparkling like diamonds.

Speaking of seizing the moment, animal prints are having a major one right now. They are everywhere; on clothes, makeup, jewellery.

Can you think of any person more special, more loving than your grandmother? Chances are— no! A relationship so incredibly special and replete with unconditional, boundless love and affection, grandmothers make our lives so very rich and sweet with their blessed presence.

First things first — sorting out your outfit is a must. This year, velvet is reigning supreme; starting from ethnic wear to western party-wear, velvet is spreading its delicious sumptuousness with a vengeance and we are here for it!

Fashion is life’s greatest, easiest, simplest pleasures that brings us so much of joy so why should we allow boring old rules to ruin it? Read on for rules of fashion that were totally made to be broken!

It’s a fact universally acknowledged that we love jewellery. Since time immemorial, women, as well as men, have adored it, and adorned their persons with it.

A favourite of royalty as well as celebrities for decades, who can forget Grace Kelly’s iconic robin’s egg blue dress, or Princess Diana’s fabulously famous one-shouldered electric blue number.

Some of us who witnessed the glorious ’90s may have seen firsthand the way artists inspired fashion most tremendously.

It is a no-brainer that short dresses look chic and stylish. An absolute summer staple, it leaves its wearer unruffled and happy. The right one can even take you from day to night and effortlessly so. They are back with a bang, and one is truly spoilt for choice when it comes to choosing!

Such splendid madness is then succeeded by mellow days of barely there Autumn when days grow shorter and cool, crisp night air has one reminiscing about first love.