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Fashion designer Ritu Beri made a comeback with her show at the Wills Lifestyle Fashion Week last night. Prod the designer further and she interrupts, ?I had never gone anywhere. I am merely making a comeback to the Indian fashion week, not the fashion circuit.?

Today, after a few seasons, Delhi will once again see one fashion week ? Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week ? where some of the designers, who chose to present their collections at the rival Delhi Fashion Week will be back to showcase on the WIFW platform.

The Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week spring/summer 2010 (WIFW) is a unified fashion week in true sense. This time, the week doesn?t only see designers from the splinter group that participated in the breakaway Delhi Fashion Week but also a strong contingent from Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) regulars.

India, Oct. 23 -- As red carpets at various international high-glam events go green, designers in India are also doing their bit to further the eco-friendly cause. Designer duo Ashima and Leena Singh's collection for the Wills Lifestyle Fashion Week, for example, is called 'Go green, Go Delhi, Go hot.

As Delhi gears up for the fashion week, some are raising doubts about the eligibility of Sanjana Jon, US based rape-convict designer Anand Jon?s sister, to participate at the event. ?I never knew Sanjana Jon is a designer. All I knew is that her brother is a designer. The prerequisite for someone to show at the fashion week is to have a retail network in major metros.

Designer Monisha Bajaj created ripples in the fashion industry in the late 1990s, and was was touted as a name to reckon with. But at the peak of her career, she took the decision to put everything else on hold to be with her family. ?I was pregnant and I thought it was time for me to take a break and look after my family,? explains Bajaj.

The razzle-dazzle of the Crystals may be past, but the excitement is far from over. While the Capital?s finest restaurants and restaurateurs have been crowned, it?s time for the artists behind the scene ? the chefs ? to don the golden crown.

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It is hard to link jewellery designing with lab coats and number crunching, but chemistry and maths both go into the making of a nice necklace. ?Jewellery designing requires great aesthetic sense, illustration skill, technical skill, familiarity with chemistry, alloy and a comfort level with maths for the chemical equations,? says Sangeeta Dewan, head of design at Tanishq.

Jamaica, Antigua, Trinidad, Granada, Mustique and Saint Lucia are amongst the famed Caribbean islands where holiday-makers luxuriate on palm-fringed beaches, sipping pina-coladas topped with freshly picked pineapple and hibiscus flowers. Barbados nestles amongst them ? the most visited of the Caribbean islands.