AS A NON INVITED PERSON
Fashion groupies
Posted by Vivian McInerny September 09, 2007 16:33PM
He's almost famous.
Shail Upadhya goes to all the shows. Has done for years. He is one of the wonders of fashion week, the true diehard Fashionates who are more passionate about fashion that traveling Deadheads are for the Dead. The best thing is he always comes completely accessorized. His suits -- always wild colors and patterns -- shirts, ties, hats and bags are all of the same fabric. He doesn't usually have an invitation to a show but is happy to stand in line and wait for SRO. Once in a while, he gets seat.
"I used to have cards," he said when asked for a business card. "Now I have papers."
On a little piece of paper the size of a business card is printed: Stylist: Shail Upadya.
The Fashionate
In a black Mercedes SLK280, a man named Shail Upadhya nestled into the cocoon-like leather seats. “I’ve been coming to polo ever since it started,” Mr. Upadhya said, “because I have a house here in Southampton, and the fact that polo really started in India, where the maharajah is, and I used to hang out with maharajahs and these princely people who used to play polo when polo was polo. It wasn’t Bridgehampton in those days.”
Mr. Upadhya was dressed, as is his infamous custom, in a wild and garish linen suit of his own design: beige, with red, green, blue and ochre oval splotches stamped all over it. His face was the color of an ancient scroll, his hair dyed a matching parchment color. He described himself as being “in exile” from the monarchy in Nepal. Mr. Upadhya was nostalgic for an era of polo long before this one, taking it back to the British Raj, bonnets and Gatsby suits.
“Here you see a lot of paparazzi,” he said. “All they want to do is take pictures of celebrities, and they want to get that one shot that will get them a million dollars. And a lot of the people I see here, they’re in T-shirts, and they really don’t know what polo is, or how to dress for polo. I’ve always dressed very elegantly for polo, because I know what it is.”
If you guys don't get offended by my remark, I think he looks like Nepali Flavor Flav in those pictures.
Not that I don't like his attire, he looks great!
Very few people in this world have courage to express themselves in such a way at this age. I feel like I am a kid now. Way to go, Shail bro!
If he were not qualified.. ppl wd critcize ' Tyo Pakhe, padhna sadhna chhaina....'
If he were working in some menial jobs, ppl wd say 'Tyo Pakhe, Dhotiko ma kaam garchha/ gas ma kaam garchha'
If he were from some countryside of Nepal ppl wd say 'Tyo joker, Amrika k aauna paathyo, Fashion desgine re?'
If he were not from politically strong family (see Koirala connection) ppl wd criticize 'Padhera kaam payena ani, Prachandako kapada design garchhu bhanchha, Neta banne shur hola'
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Ppl never cease to complain, for me he has done what he yearns for, and gives damn what the whole world think abt him. He has proved his mettle in every field, comin to US when we were not even born, completed studies, worked for the most reputed organisation and still livin his dreams...what else we can ask from a person?
Thanks Sheetalb for sharin the news. Ive not heard abt him before (but read few lines in BP Koirala's work- as rahuldai mentioned). Im not concerned abt his clothing but his SAHAS and livin style is really something :-) Ive googled and found he is not so ordinary man. Hitting every ball even in second inning of life.
Peace and lets learn something from others
I was totally amazed when I read these lines. Very happy for his success and we all should be inspired
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-Vogue, one of the world's premier fashion magazines, features actress Angelina Jolie on the cover of its January 2007 issue. Jolie wears a raspberry rayon matt jersey evening dress that drapes across her body in perfect, sensual symmetry there's a sari-like hint to the drape of fabric against her legs. The classic, elegant look comes from the design table of Bliss Blass, a New York couture house with clients as diverse as Oprah, Laura Bush, and Sigourney Weaver. What most Nepalese dont know is that one of the designers of the label is Prabal Gurung, whose rise to meteoric New York success rivals those of the best stars.
-A St Xavier's graduate, Prabal was the only one of his class to study this field in 1990. Like all boys, he struggled to belong, but was made to feel different. However, this very sense of being different helped to push him to define his sense of identity later on in life.
Prabal went to Delhi, where he attended the National Institute of Fashion Technology and worked for the Indian designer Manish Arora. So when he was accepted to the Parsons School of Design, New York's most prestigious school of fashion, of which Donna Karan, Marc Jacobs, Tom Ford and other influential designers are alumni,
I will feel a real sense of achievement when I am able to give something back to my country. The day I can make a contribution to Nepal, socially and/or economically, I'll consider that a job well done.For detail : http://www.kantipuronline.com/feature.php?&nid=99909
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