SLAMABAD: A three-day exhibition of exclusive formal and wedding designer wear by ‘Zarmina’ and an exhibition of diamond jewellery started at Khiva Gallery on Friday.
Fashion designer Zarmina has put on display a wide range of autumn and winter wear collection embellished with beads, pearls and a sequence on different fabrics mainly on cotton, chiffon, velvet, and jamawar.
Zarmina’s designs, especially the cuts on ‘chickenkari’, have a certain peculiarity that displays her intellectual and professional taste and skills. She came on the fashion scene two years back and is known among the women of taste and class. Born in NWFP, Zarmina has exhibited her work extensively across the country.
The exclusive variety of dresses attracted fashion cautious women of federal capital.
Ranging from classic to quirky, the variety was extensive from casual, evening and party wear for special occasions and bridal wears.
The dresses overcastted with thread and needlework grabbed the attention of visitors.
Each dress was unique in design, colour with beautiful embroidery, stones and sequence work. Most of dresses were an amalgamation of hues, glitters, and ravishing styles with pastel and ravishing styles with vibrant shades on both heavy and light fabrics.
Talking to Daily Times, Zarmina said she never got inspired or even bothered to see another designer’s work to copy that. “I want to express my own ideas through my designs to seek my own identity. My work is largely for middle aged women not for teenagers as just a few of this collection are sleeveless or half-sleeved,” she said.
She said this was her second exhibition in the federal capital.
Jewellery exhibition: Tahira Junaid with her brand ‘Kohinoor’ has offered a unique collection of ‘pure diamond jewellery’ and gold and silver jewellery gilded with gems, emeralds, rubies, sapphires, tanzanite and other precious and semi-precious colour stones.
One of the highlights of Junaid’s collection was her deftness to use rare gems and real stones for female accessories in bangles, bracelets, necklaces, rings, cufflinks and pendants.
“I started this work formally three years back with inspirations from family members and relatives. I have exhibited my work in Karachi, Lahore, Multan and Rawalpindi and now in Islamabad,” Junaid told Daily Times.
She said ‘Ponchi’ was a very different article in her collection that was yet to be known commonly. “Ponchi is just like a bracelet but over 80 percent females are not aware of this product, so it is exclusively designed for females of Islamabad,” she added.
“I brought all my diamond work from Lahore and Karachi. But Kundan work is all from Lahore and Multan. In Kundan collection, I have used 21 carat gold with precious stones while in diamond jewellery, I have used pure South African diamond of 22 carat,” she said.
Source: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\10\25\story_25-10-2008_pg11_7
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