{"id":11153,"date":"2014-03-17T11:33:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T11:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/03\/17\/contemporary-british-asian-fashion-showcased-at-couture-catwalk\/"},"modified":"2016-01-11T15:42:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T15:42:20","slug":"contemporary-british-asian-fashion-showcased-at-couture-catwalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2014\/03\/17\/contemporary-british-asian-fashion-showcased-at-couture-catwalk\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary British Asian Fashion Showcased At Couture Catwalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Took Place in Birmingham and Hosted by Asiana<\/h3>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"middle\" width=\"570\" height=\"225\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Couture-Catwalk-2014-570x225.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Contemporary, cutting-edge, creative couture from the countries most influential Asian fashion designers were showcased at Edgbaston Cricket Stadium in Birminghamthis week at the most innovative fashion show the city has ever seen. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The Asiana Couture Catwalk which took place on Wednesday 12<sup>th<\/sup> March was the first-time high-end Asiana haute-couture has been showcased in the city and with many of the designers hailing from the West Midlands, it was a chance to showcase the world-class talents of some of the biggest names in the industry including Sati Takhar, Ahsan\u2019s and Khushboo\u2019s By Chand. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Surrounded by a cocktail bar created by Chivas Regal, the 5ft high ramp was custom-designedspecifically for the event. While classical catwalks are at eye level with a seated audience, the Asiana Couture Catwalk saw the show elevated above thestanding audience, bringing a new dimension to the live fashion show experience.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Creative Director of the event Anisha Vasani explains why the show was such an important event: \u2018Until now British Asian fashion has focussed on bridal and wedding wear with fashion forecasters looking abroad to India to gauge trends \u2013 the Asiana Couture Catwalk was a chance to break stereotypes about Asian fashion. From the elegance of the embroidered vintage dress collection by Raishma to the daring gold lace catsuit by Gudu G at Adaa; this was high-end fashion with red carpet appeal.\u2019<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Took Place in Birmingham and Hosted by Asiana &#13; &#13; Contemporary, cutting-edge, creative couture from the countries most influential Asian fashion designers were showcased at Edgbaston Cricket Stadium in Birminghamthis week at the most innovative fashion show the city has ever seen. &#13; \u00a0 &#13; \u00a0 &#13; The Asiana Couture Catwalk which took place on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fashion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}