Sabyasachi Mukherjee for Olympus Fashion Week

Designs from Mukherjee’s Fall 2006 collection at Lakme Fashion Week.

Love seeing Indian designers get buzz in the days leading up to the Olympus New York Fashion Week. One of these designers is Calcutta’s Sabyasachi Mukherjee who is showing in the tents for the first time this year. Known for his deconstructed style and habit of redefining traditional khadi, the designer has a fresh look on fashion. Love his uses of color and volume and enjoy that he has a great eye for proportion.

The Times article in today’s Thursday Styles introduces him with a short bio, also mentioning his recent win for costume design for the movie, Black. This year’s Fashion Week will also bring the likes of Ashish N Soni… watch for him as well.

Love Made Visible Gains Visibility

The “guide to living with style” highlights one of Nirali‘s most stylish.

Because I am Priya’s number-one fan (or so I’d like to think—I know she has hundreds of them), I’m going to brag about one of Nirali‘s very own. The inimitable and incredibly talented Priya Patel, Nirali Magazine‘s fabulous designer and connoisseur of all things gorgeous, runs a beautiful design weblog called Love Made Visible. And now, Condé Nast’s equally fabulous Domino magazine thinks so, too: Priya’s site is featured this month as one of Domino’s “Sites We Love.” So stop by her site to congratulate Priya, and stay for the stunning content.

Luella Bartley & M.I.A.

Luella + M.I.A. Photo: David Sims

Fashion Rocks, a supplement to Condé Nast publications this month, has paired fashion with musicians speaking to personal style and the intersection of the two art forms. One article focuses on fashion designers and their personal musical inspiration. UK designer Luella Bartley cites none other than this girl’s favorite, M.I.A. as her musical inspiration.

The two met in 2000 when M.I.A. and Bartley moved to Notting Hill with Justine Friedmann (of Elastica). At that time, Maya was making documentaries and also her own clothes, confections of “bright flourescent fishnet fabrics.” Of M.I.A. Luella says, “She had an unabashed in-your-face craziness that I loved, admired, and identified with.”

How much do I love that these two were once roommates? Watch Fashion Rocks on September 9 on CBS. Although I wish M.I.A. were performing that day, I think it’s a night mostly dominated by the likes of the Pussycat Dolls and Beyoncé.