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Modi's MagicA peekaboo at the right place could be a thing of beauty. A disaster and a big turn-off otherwise. Anju Modi knows it too wel...

Modi8217;s Magic
A peekaboo at the right place could be a thing of beauty. A disaster and a big turn-off otherwise. Anju Modi knows it too well, but she isn8217;t scared to experiment. Not with the peekaboo, essentially, but the New Friends Colony-based designer, who seems to have tapped the vein or main artery? of today8217;s style 8212; her latest Fashion Re-Cycle Collection was a sell-out the first day itself 8212; is fabulous with fabrics.

So what if the Kalamkari reminds you of FabIndia and its lesser-known cousins, the fabric definitely is a poke in the eye of the silk-shirt brigade brushed cotton that feels like cotswool and silk with dyed block prints. And it dares you to concentrate on style and leave your preconceptions behind in the street. In fact, her label Anjuman is for all those who don8217;t like wearing labels. Sounds Prada, eh!

But if you are not a fashion junkie 8212; your life is too full to follow slavishly every nuance of fashion 8212; you must check out her range that doesn8217;t shout ostentation; merely radiates gentle good taste in the cut of the cloth and the feel of the fabric.

Gandhi Takes The Cue
As if the current success that Rohit H2O8217;Gandhi enjoys in the men8217;s fashion world wasn8217;t enough, the designer has joined hands with Rahul Khanna not the veejay, but Gandhi8217;s cousin from Amritsar to launch a women8217;s westernwear called Cue 8212; with an accent grave on e8217;, to sound Parisian, we guess 8212; that includes pieces as diverse as itsy-bitsy cocktail dresses and chic boardroom power threads.

You need to know this not because you8217;ll want to go out and buy any of it, but because it means you can now relax. Next time your significant other raids your closet for your favourite H2O shirt, you can tell her to hit either Ogaan at Santushti or Gandhi8217;s studio at Golf Links and buy her own. And it doesn8217;t cost much 8212; a tone-on-tone lycra on velvet brown two-piece that we liked and shared our choice with none other than Priyanka Gandhi-Vadra is priced at Rs 5,900.

On Animal Trail, Discovery Way
If it8217;s animals you dig, it8217;s animals you8217;ll get. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. At least, that what Kiran Karnik, Managing Director, Discovery India, promised at the Wednesday launch of Animal Planet. No, it has nothing to do with the present Raging Planet series. Animal Planet is going to be a new channel, presented by a BBC-Discovery Channel tie-up, for all those who think Discovery packs in too much of too many things, with too little of the animal world.

As Karnik explained: 8220;Animal Planet8217;s programming will focus more on the Eastern world and the female, unlike Discovery, whose programming didn8217;t have much of the two.8221; That8217;s quite an admission. Or may be Discovery is just trying to be even more politically correct than it already is, if that is possible.

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But the bottomline, is that Animal Planet, to go on air in January, will be put up as a contender to the National Geographic Channel, which has more wildlife programming than Discovery. That8217;s good news for teenagers, for whom it only means that there8217;ll now be more animals to watch out for!