Hyderabad Fashion Week Pre - Fall' 2011 (Day 1)

Hyderabad Fashion Week Pre - Fall' 2011 10th-12th May 2011:
The Hyderabad Fashion Week (HFW) is a reputed fashion platform in the Indian fashion faternity which seeks to promote the Hyderabad Based fashion industry. Budding and creative fashion designers get to showcase their creations, and gain access to countless press and buyers. Make-up and stlying are as important as the ensemble outfits that will be at display at the HFW, Mirrors (Spa and Saloon) as the Official Grooming partner will make the best effors to add to the allure of the outfit and human form.

Nida Mahmood:
Nida Mahmood is a self taught artist and trained designer from NIFT. Awarded for the “Most Creative Design Collection” in 2002, she continued with trail blazing concepts through the fashion weeks she participated in. Indian Kitsch being her muse and forte, her last 4 collections at WIFW titled ‘High on Chai’, ‘Bioscope’ , ‘Sadak Chaap’ and ‘Machis’ met with rave reviews, critical appreciation and commercial success. She also regularly writes on art and fashion for reputed newspapers and websites. Hailed as the Queen of Indian Kitsch by the media – she travels extensively for fashion and art shows, talks, seminars and has an incorrigible wanderlust for everything in Technicolor.

Shaina Chudasama Munot:
Fashion designer Shaina Chudasama Munot is popularly known as Shaina NC. She is famous for innovatively draping the saree in 54 different styles!

Ambition, diligence and focus have made 34-year-old Shaina among the most successful fashion designers in the country today.

A first class student throughout her academic career, Shaina was sent to Vancouver on a Rotary exchange scholarship after which she graduated in Political Science with distinction from Mumbai's St. Xavier's College. She then went on to complete her associate's degree in fashion design from New York's Fashion Institute of Technology ( FIT).

Shaina has worked with several NGO's and has actively patronised the Cancer Patients Aid Association for the past ten years. She believes that glamour without purpose is meaningless.

Shaina joined the BJP recently and takes forward her commitment to community service.