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Mohammad Mehdi is actually taken up his passion for sculpture and pottery after completing his degree. But at last, he decided to change his mind and beginning to fashion designing in 2002, by creating a small collection. And now the name of Mohammad Mehdi has figured prominently among the country’s leading fashion designers.

Mehdi is currently one of the top brands of Pakistan, which produce and deliver the most dazzling and glamorous designs for people who fond of fashion. His “Samar Mehdi” label is always attempt to provide the greatest care and quality to customers while looks for new and fresh areas to branch out in.

“Samar Mehdi”  showed recently at Fashion Pakistan Week 2011. Mehdi’s designs are combining the elegance sophistication of yesterday and dynamism funk of today which at last produce a unique vision of tomorrow. A vision that is modern yet elegant, eccentric and undetected.

Mehdi brings quality in couture with a capital Q. His outfits are the incarnation of today’s woman, who desires to be all she can be. Basing on originality, quality and consumer satisfaction, the Samar Mehdi design philosophy is to create for a client who wants to rejoice her femininity, yet project her independence and attitude.

J. J. Valaya is commonly called as the “Monarch of Indian Fashion.” This is completely because J. J. Valaya’s designs have been existed in Indians’ fashion worlds for about three decades. It is amazing to see how this old designs remain victorious until today.

Through his labels like “House of Valaya”, “Valaya Home”, “Studio Valaya”, and “Valaya Quantum”, J. J. Valaya is offering an ancient style of Indians’ bridal wears, but he is successful in blending it with current fashion design trends. This is actually how his works is still being favored by most Indians until recent days.

His fabulous collection of hand embroideries and delicate bridal trousseau are frenzy in the fashion world globally. His attempt on creating eternal dresses, with spoonfuls of modern classicism clinging onto it, somehow reflects a fresh look and looks distinctive from all the other designer wears. J. J. Valaya is also regarded as the trendsetter of the fashion society.

Even though his roots are dimmed to the past, he fills it with the brand new recent styles. His label that was established almost three decades earlier are now still has a strong grip of the market and do extremely well in wedding attires and evening wears, for both men and women.

Having experience working as a performer of dance and mime in theater, has been greatly influenced Everett Hoag’s hat designs. He has an extraordinarily thick artistic collection, and tends to care about the whole outfit rather than only give attention to one piece of hat or other accessories. As a Pawtucket-based designer who has ever been working in theater, he just too familiar with concerning the whole outfit of performers.

Thus, as an event stylist, he has a big motto, “the crazier the concept, the better”. It seems that Hoag is somewhat went through flexible with the odd ideas. Like for instance when he was participating in the StyleWeek Providence last June, he has created a dramatic design of skull headpiece for Maya Luz’s “Project Runway” show.

Recently, he has teamed up with Boston-based shoe designer Zack Lo to make costumes and hats for Zack’s print ads. Hoag has also made some fascinators for young clubber women, veils for bride and pill box hats for mothers of the bride and embroidered head bands for kids.

Since he moved from New York City to Rhode Island, he has limited his works and especially produces small hats for those Rhode Islanders. Recently, he has performed his new design for FashionWeeks. It was like a hat for a drama queen in the theater. That is how his design is blending between fashion and performance art.

Bridal design is apparently the most attractive for Pakistani fashion industry. Style 360, a local fashion channel, has brought this theme for their special fashion show, the 2^nd Bridal Couture Week. Before, this event has previously been conducted last November in Lahore. And now, this event is held for the second time in Karachi.

Being held for three days, which is from Friday until Sunday, Bridal Couture Week performed at about 40 models which are performing the designs of 20 fashion designers. Including in the list are the famous Indian designer J. J. Valaya, the veteran Pakistani designer Maheen Khan, the prestigious and brilliant fashion designers of Pakistan Deepak Perwani, the famous designer Shaiyanne Malik, and Lahore’s famous designer Mehdi which closed the event in the Sunday evening.

Mehdi with his designs are successful in combining the grace sophistication of the olden days and funk dynamism of today, creating the unique revelation of tomorrow, a modern yet elegant vision, eccentric yet unnoticed. While as usual, J. J. Valaya is performing his “very typically Indian” designs. His collection had appliqué work, in which the decorative designs are made of one material sewn over another; embroidered using semi-precious stones; and give clues of energetic colours with soft embroideries.

Designer mens shoes are a superb way of dipping yourself in a bit of luxury. A lot of men not forgetting women, often dream of owning and wearing a pair or better still many pairs of these oh so gorgeous shoes. If you have not entered the fashion world already you may be surprised to find that the designer shoes are not just for women but you can get quite a wide variety for men too including the Paul Smith shoes, Dsquared shoes, Prada shoes, Dior shoes, Gucci mens shoes and the list goes on.

Even if you do not consider yourself to be a fashionista and normally don’t go after designer names, buying designer mens shoes can be worthwhile. The designer women’s shoes especially are made to be different from anything else that you might find. These distinct styles just cannot be found in ordinary shoes which are not manufactured by the top designers. Gucci mens shoes and Prada shoes, for instance, are produced every season by two of the top fashion houses found in Italy, and you might find that other brands will soon be copying their latest and most fashionable styles. Paul Smith shoes too give you quite a lot of unique styles to choose from.  Read more...