Reveal Your Celebrity Type

Rihanna type of TV watcher
Depending on how you watch TV, you could be like one of these celebs, says a psychologist

How you watch TV can reveal your celebrity personality type. A leading British psychologist has divided viewers into five ‘megastars’ based on how they keep up with their favourite shows. So you could be a Victoria Beckham, Rihanna, Helen Flanagan, Charlie Sheen or Piers Morgan.

The study found that a massive 70% of Brits are “Ruthless Removers”, who record shows from live TV to watch once and then delete them, a tabloid reported. Behaviour expert Jo Hemmings said these viewers were organised and practical, like fashion designer Victoria.

Hemmings said that there are now so many ways in which people can watch TV – live, on-demand or through catch-up services. “Therefore, it’ll come as no surprise that we’ve developed particular viewing habits and patterns that tend to reflect our personalities in daily life,” she said. Her research found Ruthless Removers kept their homes tidy and clutter-free, just like immaculately turned-out Mrs Beckham.

Meanwhile, a quarter of those surveyed were deemed Multi-Taskers, who surf social networks while they watch TV. Almost one in 20 admitted to updating their Twitter or Facebook four times a show, just like internet-obsessed singer Rihanna. Hemmings said that these multi-taskers care a lot about the opinions of others.

Another quarter of Brits are Self-Indulgers, who record several episodes of programmes to watch in one marathon sitting. These TV hoarders are likely to enjoy a bit of luxury and often plan their diaries months in advance, like I’m A Celebrity star Helen Flanagan.

A further one in six are Demanders, who sit through more than five hours of ondemand TV a week at their convenience. These viewers were likely to be spontaneous in their approach to life, like bad boy Charlie Sheen.

Finally, one in seven Brits prefer to watch shows live because they suffer from ‘Fear Of Missing Out’. These on-the-ball personalities like to stay up-to-date with the latest news and gossip, like telly host Piers Morgan.

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Riding the Bridal Wave - Times News Network

For Indian designers bridal wear is big business, while their Hollywood counterparts would swoon in horror at the thought of being asked to dress a dulhan! Nona Walia reports

Hollywood wedding gowns
Jennifer Lopez wore a dazzling cream white dress from the 2005 Vera Wang collection. Eva Longoria wore an Angel Sanchez mermaid gown, with a scoop back, and a long train when she married in 2007. Jennifer Garner wore a Vera Wang empire waist wedding dress. Nicole Kidman wore an elegant ivory-coloured tulle wedding dress designed by Nicolas Ghesquiere for Balenciaga. When singer Gwen Stefani wed on September 14, 2002 in London, she wore a gorgeous pink and white wedding dress designed by John Galliano for Dior.

IF you are a bride in India, and if you can afford it, chances are you wore/will wear a lehenga-choli or saree designed by a Tarun Tahiliani, Ritu Kumar, Manish Malhotra and their ilk on your big day. Politician Praful Patel’s daughter Niyati wore many ensembles by Manish for her week-long wedding functions, Shilpa Shetty wore a Tahiliani design. (The recently-married GVK heiress Mallika Reddy wore Abu Jaani and Sandeep Khosla at her spectacular Hyderabad wedding, just like Twinkle Khanna a decade ago. Ritu Kumar dressed Anoushka Shankar when she took saat pheras.)

Brides = big bucks
In India, weddings are big business and there’s big moolah to be made by wooing the dulhan.The recent Delhi Couture Week, witnessed a spectacular bridal tamasha. On the catwalk were outfits priced between 3 lakh and 25 lakh. Almost all were sold out, immediately. Bridal wear remains highly lucrative for most Indian designers, who’re cashing in on the growing $20 million Indian wedding industry. Interestingly, the clients are becoming global. Says Sunil Sethi, president of FDCI, “Couture in India is bridal wear. It’s the bread and butter for designers. Last season, Sabyasachi on the second day had made a business of one crore. Manish’s entire collection was sold out to a single buyer. That’s the appeal of bridal wear; money is huge and people are willing to spend. The payment is usually undisclosed, profits are high. Bridal is couture and bespoke and can be bought off the rack, altered to size. Girls are crazy about their bridal dress, and they choose the dress first and then decide, ‘I want to get married now’.” 

Tough market to ignore
Says fashion expert Asha Baxi, “The Couture Week is overloaded with bridal wear. Yet, some designers like Rajesh Pratap and David Abraham do only high fashion. But the profits are so amazing that most designers can’t resist the temptation.”

Designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee recently made an observation, “Till Indian designers do bridal wear, they’ll never feel the pinch of recession.” Adds Sethi, “The business is so good that even designers, who were till recently doing pret and evening wear like Gaurav Gupta and Varun Behl, are now doing bridal wear. Designers are making the costliest of outfits and selling them anywhere between 5 lakh and 20 lakh.” Designer Varun Behl agrees, “I got lured into it, though I do a lot of evening wear. But almost 50 per cent of my sales are from bridal wear.” Fashion expert Harmeet Bajaj agrees, “The market is only growing bigger.”

The West side story
Personally, for designer Tarun Tahiliani, ‘bridal wear’ involves creativity and meticulously engineered clothes. Says Tarun, “Designing bridal wear remains important for Indian designers, because every woman wants to look her best for one of the most special events in her life — her wedding.” Internationally, the designers don’t reveal their bridal sales. Says designer Suneet Varma, “Armani, Valentino and Elle Saab have bridal wear collections. But they don’t do too much publicity about it. Almost all couturiers do have bridal collections. No designer reveals his or her bridal business in the West.” Riding the Bridal wave
The twist in the tale is that the business of designing bridal wear is getting huger as patronage becomes global. According to a report, a typical Indian wedding in the US costs between $75,000 and $100,000 — three times more than the average American nuptials. Say designers Nikhil and Shantanu, “The wedding industry is pegged at around 50,000 crore and growing, our profits are amazing.”

Couture is bridal in India
For the fashion designer, bridal wear is about showing superb showmanship. Says designer JJ Vallaya, “I feel couture in India deserves an indigenous definition.” How important is bridal wear to a designer in his collection every season? “Significantly important. Often, couture is also considered largely classic in order to protect its timelessness. I would say an A-grade couturier would be deriving up to 70 per cent of his revenues from bridals in India.”

Last season, Sabyasachi on the second day had made a business of Rs one crore. Manish’s entire collection was sold out to a single buyer. That’s the appeal of bridal wear; money is huge and people are willing to spend. - Sunil Sethi, president of FDCI.

India’s top couturiers display their wedding collection with pride and have special collections for dulhans. However, their Hollywood counterparts would baulk at the idea of doing a wedding collection. They wouldn’t even consider it, although they would make an exception for a top actress, royalty or a close friend. Actress Katherine Heigl wore a stunning Oscar de la Renta wedding dress on her special day. When Katie Holmes married Tom Cruise in 2006, she wore an exquisite Armani wedding gown. But when it comes to wedding gowns, the first choice of the rich and the famous is Vera Wang. She has dressed wedding gowns for many well-known public figures, such as Chelsea Clinton, Ivanka Trump, Mariah Carey, Victoria Beckham, Avril Lavigne, Sharon Stone, Uma Thurman, and Kate Hudson. In India, there is no one name that leads the pack, it’s a pie everyone wants a piece of.

 

Resisting the lure
Are all designers tempted by the bridal business? “No,” says designer Ritu Kumar. “The market has lots of designers who are specialising in bespoke garments. There are some designers such as Rajesh, David and Rakesh who don’t do bridal lines.” Says designer Raghavendra Rathore, “Bridal wear generally is the base of all designs for the other collections as it lays the foundation of motifs, materials, colours and trends.” The ateliers that fabricate these clothes are making bridal wear into an art form.

Can there really be fashion without the bridal segment in India? “No,” says Manav Gangwani, “Usually, bridal outfits are more expensive due to the fact that they are more heavily embellished. There’s skill in making them, the satisfaction of the stitching, the fall and the rustle and the silhouette. It’s the ultimate glamour.”

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Poonam's Ready for a Full Monty

She loves strutting her stuff in a bikini, but for model Poonam Pandey that is not the limit of exposure ~ Richa Bhatia

Who needs clothes when you have a body like Poonam Pandey? That’s what bikini model and controversy’s favourite child Poonam says, “I am very comfortable in a bikini, be it for a shoot or for a film.”Which is also why the MMS clip of her in a two-piece, taken during the shoot of a reality show, does not perturb her. In fact, the model is loving all the attention she’s been getting on the Internet. “It was not fake. Someone shot it during a photo shoot. I actually want to meet that person, because I liked the video. I love it when people download my photos,” says Poonam, who is intent on keeping up the Most Downloaded Internet Model tag.

In fact, Poonam, who shot to fame when she declared she’d strip to celebrate India’s victory at the Cricket World Cup, but later chickened out, says that with her calendar shoots (in a bikini) she’s already reached the half-way mark in stripping. The other half, she maintains, is not out of bounds. “I won’t wait for four years for another Indian WC victory,” she laughs and adds, “I have a surprise in store for my fans and I will keep up my promise. I’ve told them on a social networking site that I’ve already stripped 50 per cent. The rest will happen soon.”

According to Poonam, she was one of the hopefuls for Sajid Khan’s Housefull 2. “But then the World Cup brouhaha erupted and I was on live TV while Sajid waited at my office,” she says. But while she missed out on that big Bollywood chance, Poonam claims that she has been inundated with offers since then. “I turned down 31 offers in the last 45 days,” she says. Some of these included films with Rahul Mahajan and Ashmit Patel. “It was not about the role, but the names involved. I want to act with the big guns of the Bollywood industry. Why should I work with a small production house, when I’m getting offers from big banners?” asks the model.

 

 

Being body beautiful also means that Poonam is one of the most sought-after models for item numbers in the south. “I get calls practically every day with offers of item numbers. There was a call from a Telugu director for a song, but I turned it down as I don’t want to begin my career with an item number,” she says.

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