I meet Lisa Ray at a quaint café in her neighborhood on a steaming hot day in Toronto; she walks in -- makeup-free with green eyes shining -- looking every bit the glamorous star and nothing like her well-earned 40 years. We chat for nearly two hours, and she is...

The 2012 Toronto International Film Festival kicked off on Thursday with all the glitz, glamour and fanfare one has come to expect of the internationally renowned film fest, which this year added a masala twist to the lineup of films with a spotlight on Mumbai. TIFF's City to City Programme...

It was something of a historical moment for Lakme Fashion Week last Tuesday night when the runway lights shone on not one but two of India's emerging design labels, husband and wife design duo Pankaj & Nidhi and ethno-grunge kid Kallol Datta. Season after season LFW has promised an extravagant,...

Electric green and yellow lasers cut through the billowing smoke on the runway while the crowd and celebrity guests hushed their clamoring in anticipation for Shivan & Narresh's EQUUS collection to hit the ramp.

Models trotted out, fiercely styled in what is arguably the designers' most glamorous collection yet....

It was a surprise treat to see the former Queen of New York fashion week sitting front row at Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) in Mumbai on Friday. She hasn't attended LFW for the last two seasons. Two years ago, the woman credited with starting New York fashion week

Since an 'aha!' moment while watching The Social Network, Stephanie Mark, Erin Kleinberg and Jake Rosenberg have transformed an ambitious fashion blog into a bonafide brand; their site The Coveteur has quickly become one of the most covetable spaces to be featured on and certainly one of the most enjoyable...

Since an 'aha!' moment while watching The Social Network, Stephanie Mark, Erin Kleinberg and Jake Rosenberg have transformed an ambitious fashion blog into a bonafide brand; their site The Coveteur has quickly become one of the most covetable spaces to be featured on and certainly one of the most enjoyable...

In Part 2 of this interview, Bailey discusses how to change the future of Hindi cinema, which up-and-coming Indian stars to look out for and why Indian women in film have it so tough. Look out for Shah Rukh Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Vidya Balan and Frida Pinto. If you missed...

The first thing I see as I walk into a boardroom in the TIFF Bell Lightbox to interview Cameron Bailey is a framed black and white photo of Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao, taken when they were in Toronto for the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival to premiere their film...

Sixteen years ago Anita Lal opened a beautiful, tiny home wares shop called Good Earth in tony South Bombay with absolutely no business knowledge or experience. What began as a passion project for a housewife who simply wanted to sell beautiful things has since grown into a fabulous and formidable...

A charming and funny film about a rather cantankerous group of seniors (played by Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy and others) who relocate to Udaipur to live out their twilight years, opened Friday. "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" feels a bit like a beautiful photo book, bursting with richly...

While many people may still be fatigued from attending a whirlwind of international fashion weeks, it is in fact time to start planning for next season, especially if you're an Indian designer. Lakme Fashion Week Summer/Resort 2012 saw five days of shows put on by designers both new...

While international editors, stylists, models and photographers were busy with such celebrated shows as Chanel, Louis Vuitton and YSL in Paris for the parisienne leg of fashion week fall 2012, a very different fashion fraternity was equally occupied on the shores of the Arabian Sea with Lakme Fashion Week Summer/Resort...

Twice a year, in the frantic and fashionable city of Bombay, Lakme Fashion Week showcases collections by some of the country's most respected and sought after designers alongside fresh, emerging young talent.

Lakme Fashion Week Summer/Resort 2012 kicked off on Friday with the highly anticipated Gen Next show, which...

Malini Agarwal is without a doubt, India's most famous blogger; an independent, effervescent young woman who has turned a hobby into a business, desire into reality and a whole lot of passion and hard work into an enormously successful brand.

Based out of Bombay, a pulsating city that's home...

I had my first look at Le Mill back in March, mere days before Mumbai's first concept store threw a glittering launch party to celebrate their entrée into the city's scene of trendy, high end retailers.

Nestled almost anonymously in the chaos of Mumbai's dockyards, behind bustling Crawford market,...

It was a sunny spring day in Toronto when I first met Veronica Chail -- all dressed up from the OMNI studio to meet me for coffee at a Starbucks on the funky Queen Street strip -- but idyllic atmosphere aside, we had something very serious to discuss: IIFA 2011....

After being escorted down a long winding hallway I entered the hotel's banquet room to the ebullient sound of Hindi music and stomping feet, where dance king Shiamak Davar was rehearsing with his dancers and Bollywood actor Bobby Deol for the 2011 International Indian Film Academy Awards in...

For over three decades makeup magician Mickey Contractor has been wielding his magic wand on Bollywood's brightest beauties for dozens of hit films and advertising campaigns. Gender discrimination in the film industry forced him from hair into makeup, where he felt frustrated with archaic beauty ideals and lighting technology that...

The fans were screaming, the media running and the celebrities dancing -- yes, it was the 2011 International Indian Film Academy Awards that brought Bombay and Bollywood to the streets of Toronto for a decidedly spicy IIFA weekend full of film, fashion and masala-style fun. Keep reading to find out...