Desi Vogue

Sharmila Tagore – a fashion icon for sarees even today

A smile is an ornament that brightens the environment all around. The well-chosen attire helps to add to the allure. A very young girl of thirteen with expressive eyes, prominent dimples and a love...

Chanderi sarees - new ranges to thrill at Unnati Silks

Utter the word Chanderi and most Indian women around, on hearing it would love to hear more about it. Such popularity has this variety of traditional handloom saree gained since it first came a few...

Summer is here. What would you like to wear in sarees?

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Come Summer andEvery woman likes to wear light,In colors quite bright,So that she very well mightBe thought one of the best in sight.And what better for this than...

Wearing their sarees intelligently  –  ideas for the plus size women

No woman likes to be called anything other than thin or shapely. Not even the actually plus-sized. Simple logic- who wants their limitations highlighted especially in public glare for others to hav...

Batik on sarees  – a rage at home in India and other places overseas

Batik, also known as ‘wax writing’ is an arty way of decorating fabrics and has come a long way from being a ‘mere handicraft’. A way of decorating cloth by covering a part of it with a coat of wax...

Pavni – A Celebration of South Indian handlooms while acknowledging their Purity of Weave

Pavni is a celebration of purity, an act of solemnizing the auspicious, the reverence shown to an honored tradition of handloom weaving in Southern India. Brainchild of Unnati Silks, this year’s an...

Sustainable Fashion or SU.RE – resolving to attain the achievable goal of sustainable fashion in the Indian Textile Industry

Indian apparel industry’s largest commitment to move towards sustainable fashion, Project SU.RE is a commitment by India’s apparel industry to set a sustainable pathway for the Indian fashion indus...

Some popular ways of embroidering flowers on fabrics

Who does not know what embroidery is? Lovely thread work, that enhances the look of the saree and the wearer as well. It has many forms from the ordinary to the miniature to the very exquisite. Emb...