Posted by: Sonya Rehman on: April 13, 2008
By Sonya Rehman
Starring Christina Ricci, James (drool) McAvoy and Reese Witherspoon, ‘Penelope’ has to be this year’s most sensationally creative, movie endeavour.
But that’s just it – ‘Penelope’ truly is more than any old, Hollywood-churned-out flick.
This is because director Mark Palansky weaves together reality along with silver threads of fantasy into a captivatingly pretty piece of [...]
Posted by: Sonya Rehman on: April 11, 2008
By Sonya Rehman
“I remember the day McDonald’s was launched in Lahore,” Adnan Ahmed a student at National College of Arts says. “It was utter chaos…people had driven in from Rawalpindi and Islamabad and were ordering burgers by the dozen to take back. It was insane”.
That was 1998, when the famous, mammoth-sized, bright yellow, McDonald’s ‘M’ [...]
Posted by: Sonya Rehman on: April 11, 2008
By Sonya Rehman
After the completion of their Masters (in Fine Arts) from Lahore’s distinguished Punjab University back in 2004, graphic designers Guddu and Shani formed ‘360 degrees’ – with the sole aim of “transforming diversified products into visual forms of advertising”, as Shani puts it. And alongside their company, Guddu and Shani also run their [...]
Posted by: Sonya Rehman on: April 6, 2008
By Sonya Rehman
Lights, ramps, models, brands, elaborate garb, pretentious pageantry, tangible art and sentences lavishly sprinkled with words such as; ‘fabulous’, ‘dah-ling’ and ‘jaani’…many would assume that is what the word ‘fashion’ strictly encapsulates as a whole.
But just as there are two sides to one person, fashion too, comes with another, slightly less frivolous face. [...]
Posted by: Sonya Rehman on: April 6, 2008
By Sonya Rehman
For decades, fashion has always seemed to saunter, hand in hand with skeletal, size-zero frames.
But is the honeymoon over? In an ideal and ‘normal’ world, you bet. But high-street fashion, it seems, is hell-bent on promoting twig-like-and-trendy body images.
However, over the past few years there have been a couple of glimpses of light, [...]
