At the previous season of Lakme Fashion Week a designer’s PR manager politely asked me, “can plus size ever become socially acceptable and mainstream? Can plus size be aspirational?” One would assume, with India finally having its first ever plus size fashion show such questions would be a thing of the past. No such luck!
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There was something of a different flavour at Startup Victoria‘s pitch night for September — including the new beverage sponsors! — which may have been helped by the large crowd, and the more polished presentations (judging by the feedback). I will comment on each pitch in order of appearance: Studio Ninja is described as Client
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SPK Academy, Jay Matrona (foreground) practicing with fellow SPK students. Growing up, his mother played Carole King and Barbara Streisand albums during the day and his father put on Charlie Parker, George Shearing and Jimmy Smith records at night. “I loved it all,” Jay says. “And, I’d go to bed and hear my dad practicing
Funderful, the web-based alumni fundraising management platform developed in Latvia, successfully raised €150,000 from Lithuania’s StartupHighway, the leading investor in this round of funding, and two angel investors. According to the founder of Funderful Raimonds Kulbergs, the funds will help to accelerate the pace of product development and help establish a foothold in the US
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As a fashion blogger and digital content creator, my work is predominantly in the digital space. Technology and apps are as important to me as fashion. From clicking pictures to sending mails to updating my social media, most of my work is done on my phone and it is very important for me to have
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For starters, you are relentlessly reminded that there is something wrong with your body and you need to change it. You’re told to shrink your body until it fits into the prescribed (narrow) beauty standard. Next, you need to perform the near impossible, herculean task of finding fashionable clothing that fit your fat body. Having worked
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Everybody in the press loves to write stories about the next “Tech Bubble”. me too, kid. but they got stock symbols on ‘em, not horns. Of course, they all think they’ve seen this movie before — twice in fact, in 2000 and in 2008. They think they know the script. They think they know the
5 years ago if you had told me I would be reviewing phones, I would have called you delusional. I used to be one of those people who would run away from the mention of technology. Blogging changed all of that. When your job requires you to be online most of the time, it is
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When I was in fashion school, I literally had only 4 clothing items in my wardrobe: Oversized t-shirts, baggy jeans, knee-length kurtas and track pants. I had a few pieces of each in different colours, but the basic silhouette and structure was the same. I was so used to wearing the same clothes on a
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On the 26th of May, I put together an event (Unpitch) that matched 23 investors with 69 startups. Most conversations between startup founders and investors tend to be formal discussions, where startups are given limited time to pitch to investors or trying to catch investors at a hallway during an event, with the power dynamic
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