Yes! Now we Kolkata people no longer need to wait for our trips out of the city to shop for some Maddens coz the iconic fashion brand has opened their first store in the city. The new Steve Madden store is located on the 1st floor of Quest Mall and it opened its doors on the 9th. I was probably one of the first ones to visit and obviously, took a lot of pictures to show you what Steve Madden has in store for the City of Joy!
Launch of Ilex London Summer Haute Couture + 1st Anniversary Celebration
In the presence of Tollywood’s leading lady, Arpita Chatterjee and Sharbari Dutta, Rita Bhimani, Shyamlu Dudeja, British accessories brand ILEX London celebrated their first anniversary and launched the 2015 summer collection of leather bags and accessories at the Quest Mall store.
ILEX, founded in 1993 in London, is a British brand, which is currently available across eight countries including England, Austria, Germany and Russia. The first outlet in India is in Kolkata. Encouraging the global trend of functional fashion, the bespoke products are created in the ILEX in-house design studios in Milan and Rome. The Summer ’15 collection includes a premier line of shoulder bags, totes, handheld hobos, cross-body messengers, party clutches, laptop cases, currency purses and pop-colored wallets among other accessories.
The ‘Grace’ collection has shades of orange, yellow, light grey and black in contrast with beige side panels and sophisticated metal locks. The ‘Aspen’ range is perfect for a girls’ brunch with beautiful hand stitched detailing while ‘Anya’ is the bag for the woman on the move. There’s something for men too. They can choose from satchels. duffle bags, laptop bags or soft leather travel essential cases. The price of each product ranges from Rs 5000-Rs 20,000.
I spent a wonderful afternoon at the store yesterday with ILEX, friends, champagne, cupcakes and delicious tidbits from Smokehouse Deli. Here are a few pictures from the event.
The ILEX London store is on the 2nd Floor at Quest Mall 33, Syed Amir Ali Avenue Kolkata – 700017
Satya Paul and Disney Mono Pop Collection Launch with Bridgette Jones
Last week I spent a fun afternoon at the Quest Mall Satya Paul boutique with Bridgette Jones, makeup, food and the new Satya Paul Disney Mono Pop Collection. Bridgette Jones is a very popular Kolkata hair and makeup artist and she along with her daughter Danielle spoke about the new trends in hair and makeup and showed us various ways of styling the Disney Mono Pop collection sarees. At the store, I also took a look at the spring/summer collection and this is the one which has been created in association with Gauri Khan.
What I did on Valentine’s Day + V Day Makeup
At last the madness is over! I was kinda getting tired of all the red hearts and balloons and the deluge of V day specials but again as long as it makes people happy, why not? How did you guys celebrate the day of love? Do share in the comments below. Would love to know :). Wanna know what I did? I spent the evening with my girl friends and it was the best celebration ever. In fellow blogger Beena Chavan’s words, I had a “Galentine’s Day” and it was good!