DAWN - The Review; March 27, 2008

March 27, 2008

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COVER STORY: Keeping cool The bright, summer sky is the limit in terms of choices and styles this season, as some of the designers follow their own whims and fancies. The Review takes a look at the emerging trends and talks to a few style gurus.....		OFF THE RACK: Of fashion fraternity and other animals Charles Darwin, the author of The Origin of Species and the creator of the Theory of Evolution wrote about how humankind (and other animals) is perpetually engaged in a “competitive struggle for existence.” In his theory of natural selection, he is quoted as saying...

Laced with, well... Lahore Spring has taken the country by surprise by coming earlier than expected, with no signs of the rain that visits as winter ends in Lahore. Going by this change of weather, summer too shall be coming soon. And summer is synonymous with the wonder cloth called lawn....		Capital cut Islamabad is a city that experiences all seasons and women there have a greater variety of fabric to choose from writes Huma Khawar, Islamabad, the blue-eyed child born with a silver spoon, has grown manifolds in the past couple of years....

Loony for lawn Springtime is a lovely season by all accounts: flowers flowering, trees blooming, lambs leaping, temperate weather and mild skies. In the West, spring means Easter, spring break, the end of winter....		Ghar aaja sohnya Ghulam Hussain is hardly home for a week each month. The rest of the time he is travelling all over Pakistan, visiting all the major cities on business. He is one of the many who bring hand-embroidered unstitched suits right to the doorsteps of the begums sitting in their bungalows....

IN FASHION: Accessorise! This eighth year of the new millennium is the year of art, whether it is a painting on your drawing room wall or an unusual hand-made rug on your living room floor, an arty designer ring on your finger or an erratic arrangement of beads around your neck. As the masses become more and more...		REFLECTIONS: That darn cold! I sniffed. Unfortunately, not the fragrance of a sweet smelling flower. This was my first sniff of what was to be the start of the unavoidable, all familiar cold. I blame my job for that. When you''re a teacher, no matter how much you try and how many dozens of hand sanitizer bottles you use...

REALITY BITES: Horizontally challenged If you are ever advised to travel by ‘sleeper ‘(unless it is confirmed first class) to any destination in Europe or elsewhere, your answer should be an emphatic “No”. On our last holiday in Europe, we were booked on a first class package but thanks to a faux pas by our travel agent...		BEAUTY BAG: My love affair with makeup I don’t know when or how I got obsessed with wearing the colour red. Deep red, midnight red and my favourite strawberry red. The colour fascinates me; call me crazy but it really does uplift my mood. Especially when it’s in the form of lipstick....

PICTURE THIS: Bling, bling with every step If you really want to “bring it” to the weddings, parties and get-together(s) this season, glitzy footwear is a must have. The gaudier, the chunkier and the louder the sandal, the more impressed your friends will be. If you can see your own reflection in the mirror and stonework of your shoes...		LETTER FROM DUBAI: Confessions of an expatriate The perfectly manicured grass on the sidewalks, the roundabouts adorned with pretty flowers, a complex web of immaculate roads stretching mirage-like in front of us as far as the eye can see, the faultless infrastructure and the last but not least...

TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH: Platelet deficiency and its problems Q I have idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura. When I was diagnosed with it, I had never even heard of it. When I tell people about it, they don’t know what it is either. This illness can be life-threatening. I would appreciate your devoting a column to it.....		GARDENING: Buying plants: the do’s and don’ts Numerous readers have asked for advice on what to look for when buying plants from a nursery as, all too often, nursery men will take advantage of unwary customers by selling them plants which are diseased, bug infested or too weak to survive. Even experienced gardeners...

What’s On This year’s winner of the Best Film Oscar, No Country For Old Men, takes its time to get going. But when it does –– it becomes a wholly absorbing thriller and a subtle meditation on a changing world and society in which old world rules don’t apply and where, in fact...		EATING OUT: No elbowing here The times; they are a changing. And no more is the change more apparent than on I.I. Chundrigar Road. Used to be the main artery running through Karachi’s central business district was all about banks, business and traffic jams. Well, not any more.....

IN MEMORIUM: Death of a scholar This is the story of a prominent woman of our era who lived an unbelievably courageous and unconventional life till the ripe age of mid-70s. It is the tale of the great aspirations and rare intellectualism of a person who had multidimensional qualities. However, her death was tragic and terrible....