Retail Jeweller India Awards 2015

The 11th Gemfields and Nazraana Retails Jeweller IndiaAwards 2015 (RJIA)

“The 11th Gemfields and Nazraana Retails Jewellers India Awards 2015 (RJIA)” were held on 8th August 2015 at The Grand Hyatt, Santacruz. It was a great honour to be the part of such a glamorous awards night witnessed by the bollywood franternity like Raveen Tandon, Yami Gautam and many more.

                               

This year’s Awards had 1165 entries from across country and finally 82 designs made it as final nominations. The Jury Panel included Neha Dhupia (Actress), Michelle Poonawalla (Director, Poonawalla Group of Engineering Companies), Rouble Nagi (Artist Muralist), Ananya Banerjee (Artist), Vaishali Banerjee (Managing Director, Platinum Guild India), Shazia Khan (Vice President & Strategic Planning Director, JWT), Radha Kapoor(Founder& Executive Director, Indian School Design and Innovation – ISDI) and Ashit Kukian (President & COO, Radio City 91.1 FM).

Some glimpse of the awards

Lifetime Achievement Award - Retail - T.S. Kalyanraman, Kalayan jewellers.

Lifetime Achievement Award - Manufacturing - Laljibhai Patel, Dharmanandan Diamonds 

Jewellery Designer of the Year -  Ms. Shobha Ashar

Heritage Jeweller of the Year - Mehta Emporium

About Retail Jeweller India Awards: Retail Jeweller India Awards was

established in 2005 with mission to take US $ 30 billion Retail jewellery industry forward by creating a platform for recognizing the best work of the industry in field of design, retail and marketing.

Also known as India’s Oscars for the Retail jewellery industry and the only business awards specially for retail jewellers in the country of 3 lakh retail jewellers.

With reputable jury, IMRB as the process auditors and the NDTV Good Times as Television partner, the awards are the country’s premier and the most authoritative national competition.

It is an initiative of the Retail Jeweller Magazine which is a specializes bi-monthly business magazine read by top jewellery retailers across 415 cities of India. Completely focused on the subject of jewellery retailing, the magazine enjoys highest readership amongst progressive jewellery retailers in the country.

Delivering focused communication for 48,000 HNI readers it has emerged as a dependable and reliable source for industry happenings and developments.

www.retailjewellerindiaawards.com

Baaya design

baaya where designs meets tradition

On 6 August 2015, Heena, Aditi, Jhilmil, myself and many more bloggers had visited the Baaya design studio at Lower Parel, Mumbai for their ladies special exhibition. They had beautiful ladies attraction items. Such as hand printed leather chappals, handbags, kalamkari umbrellas, warli painted stoles and sarees ect.The highest attraction was for the rakhis made from Dokra art.

Baaya is a lovely vision to conserve traditional artisan skills with innovative design inputs by Ms. Shivani Jain (The Founder). She has given a higher look  and higher level to Indian traditional Art in worldwide market.

While having a glance through the Baaya store, I was mesmerized by the Indian art. Our India has such beautiful art. Each state of India has a remarkable art of its own.Ms. Shivani Jain pulls out the best artisan of each state and redefines his art with her exclusive inputs and make wonder. 

Baaya design store has huge wonders of India art.......

few pics to view the collection.

Baaya store understands the client requirements and then their team have a huge research on the it. After analyzing the concept, they take the feedback from the client and finalize the design then give an excellent production.

Baaya store and studio offers an unmatched range of folk art paintings, artefacts and art furniture having folk art from across India.

For more details go through www.baayadesign.com

Delicate Threads Of Raksha

Brother Brother! Who really is a brother? Is he a male who protects and takes care of a female in the family or a sibling who is bound by the thread of family? I am a girl who has two sisters and lots of cousin brothers. But I never really felt the zeal of Raksha Bandhan.

Every year when this lovely festival of Raksha Bandhan arrived, I consoled myself with numerous reasons and went ahead with the demands of the festivities of buying lots of lovely rakhis, toiling in the kitchen to make Indian sweets and try to get some happiness and joy from the fact that even cousin brothers are brothers.

Vintage Bloom By Amrita KM

Dreamy, modish and undeniably elegant, Amrita KM’s Autumn-Winter 2015 line is on the lust-list of fashionistas this season. There’s no denying the importance of the Victorian era in the lineage of haute couture. Think ruffled skirts, ribbons, high collars, cinched waists, lace accents, elaborate ball-gowns and exquisite hairstyles. Victorian fashion seamlessly blended high-octane glamour and progressive androgyny. Inspired by this vintage period, Delhi-based Amrita KM’s Autumn-Winter 2015 line is poised to take the capital by storm.

Industry Gears Up For SATTE Mumbai West 2015

UBM India, organiser of South Asia’s leading travel trade show, SATTE, announced the launch of the 4th edition of SATTE Mumbai West, slated on 18-19th August 2015 at the World Trade Centre, Mumbai.

SATTE Mumbai West, catering primarily to the travel trade community of Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa will see participation from national and international tourism boards, DMCs, travel agents and tour operators, airlines, OTAs, hotels and resorts and IT companies amongst others. Niche product and service providers from the industry will also participate to connect with potential business aides and build stronger partnerships within the region through this platform.

The trade show will also showcase some of the latest destinations and offerings by key stakeholders. Key exhibitors include Rajasthan Tourism, Maharashtra Tourism, Chhattisgarh Tourism, Uttar Pradesh Tourism and Madhya Pradesh Tourism, Turkish Culture and Tourism Office, Tourism Malaysia, Tourism Fiji, Uzbekistan Tourism, Neemrana Hotels, OyoRooms, ZO Rooms, Interglobe Aviation Ltd. (Indigo), Internet Moguls,Tea Estate India, Grade One Events, United Travels and Tours from Singapore.

Aurum By Varun Bahl - A Bespoke Luxury Wedding Design Experience

Synonymous to elegance, ace designer and Couturier Varun Bahl launched ‘AURUM by VARUN BAHL,’ his luxury wedding design venture at the Amazon India Couture Week 2015 in the heart of Lutyen’s Delhi. Actor Randeep Hooda welcomed the guests by reciting the poem which inspired the collection - “The Song of The Flower”.

The Launch was celebrated over an evening of style and panache with Champagne & Hors d'Oeuvres followed  by a lavish spread of Indian delicacies catered by FIO. The exclusive soiree was supported by friends and family, along with some of the most celebrated names of society. Amongst the glitterati’s of Delhi & Mumbai who attended the laucnh were Actress Bhumi Padnekar, Niamat Bakshi, Kalyani Saha, Ruheen Jaiswal, Suhel Seth, Umang Hatheesing, Tanisha Mohan, Sabina Chopra and Sanjeev Bijli to name a few.

Pantene Launches the #BestEver Range

Leading shampoo brand Pantene on Wednesday brought Bollywood actress and new Pantene brand ambassador Anushka Sharma on stage to launch their new best ever formulation which restores and maintains hair health from the core. This breakthrough – which is the world’s first to work at the core for stronger, shinier hair – will give women their best ever hair.

Flaunting her best ever tresses the actor stated how she started endorsing the brand only after she herself saw how the new shampoo & conditioner strengthened her hair from within making her hair stronger inside and shinier outside!