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CELEBRATE Celebrating the Fashionista In Every Woman! From beautiful bridal wear to elegant ethnic fashion, Lulu Celebrate at Lulu Mall is every woman’s dream fashion destination. Spread over three floors, the store retails traditional Kerala sarees, designer sarees, chic casual wear, kurta sets, stunning Anarkalis, lehengas, graceful weddings gowns and more! And if that’s not all, the store offers a wide range of fabrics to choose from. With a team of expert in-house designers, Lulu Celebrate even assists you in selecting the right fabric and designing it. Words: Riya Sonny Datson Photography: Arun A Menon Fashion Stylist: Sneh Bagwe Kalra “Lulu Celebrate is a one stop shop for women’s ethnic fashion, ready-to-wear bridal attire and designer wear styles. You will find everything from casual Indian kurtas and leggings, to sarees, lehengas and bridal gowns,” says Sneh Bagwe Kalra, a seasoned fashion designer from Mumbai who has worked with a range of accomplished designers and brands like Manish Malhotra and Jimmy Choo and is currently the senior fashion stylist with the Lulu group. While, ‘Masterpieces’ is an exclusive wedding collection that offers unique ready-to-wear styles of designer bridal lehengas, gowns and wedding Kanchipuram sarees, ‘Handcrafted’, is a special service that helps clients to customise garments for any occasion. The design team at the store will help you fashion 34 LULU HAPPINESS FEB-MAR ‘17 trendy garments that will suit your taste, personality and occasion. “Lulu Handcrafted Celebration offers customised services for bridal and party wear. You get to design your attire as per your choice of colour, texture, design and budget. It’s not just for the bride, we have a lot of requests to design customised apparel for a variety of occasions. We had a German dancer who liked a Kanchipuram saree but it was too complicated for her to wear. So we converted the saree into a lehenga, which is much easier to wear and the customer was thrilled beyond words,” explains Sneh. For the Lulu Beauty Queen contest winner Dhanya Ushas’ photo shoot for Lulu happiness, the clothes were handpicked from Lulu Celebrate, the bridal store.