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A new dawn in lawn
By Tanya Sheikh
This year, lawn brands gave women more than just a variety of clothes; they gave them importance.
In Pakistan, there are five seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Lawn. For many people, lawn season is that time of the year when, just like you dread load-shedding in summer and gas-shedding in winter, you can’t wait for life to be discovered on another planet (and, of course, for there to be affordable inter-planetary travel). For others, it’s like chaand raat… only better.
Seasonal madness
If you’re here to learn something new and revolutionary about horticulture and landscaping, we advise you to leave this page. The subject of this article is a fabric that is insanely popular in the Sub-Continent, especially at this time of the year.
Over the last couple of years, lawn season has been synonymous with mass hysteria among women. More recently, lawn season has resulted in a surge of viral videos showing just how far some women are willing to go for a piece of clothing (case in point: The Sapphire lawn stampede). The videos, which were initially amusing, quickly became a source of second-hand embarrassment. After all, seeing your mothers and sisters recreate a scene from World War Z is not a pleasant experience. However, this year has been different. Fortunately, this lawn season is making waves for the right reasons.
Shaking things up
One of the first signs foreshadowing the impending lawn season are the billboards and banners – hundreds and thousands of them – plastered all over the country. While that remains unchanged, this year, two giants in the lawn ‘scene’, decided to shake things up and forego the run-of-the-mill photo shoots quintessential of the lawn billboard culture. The brands in question are Nishat Linen and Gul Ahmed, two veterans in the lawn industry, who, with their current marketing campaigns, are showing the rookies how it’s done.
The campaigns
Let’s talk about Nishat Linen first. For its NL You line, Nishat seems to have wanted to accurately represent its target audience – the youth. They wanted their campaign to reflect the spirit of young, Pakistani girls who are fun, independent and fashion-forward; they wanted to create something that was real and relatable.
Something about the girls in the campaign feels fun and genuine. Maybe it’s their smiles; maybe it’s the fact that while they are beautiful, they don’t look like cookie-cutter models. If there’s a tall girl in the mix, there’s a short one too; if there’s a girl wearing sleeveless, the one right next to her is in a burqa. It proves that you don’t have to look a certain way or wear a certain thing to be considered worthy of being featured on a nationwide campaign. All the girls in the campaign may not be recognisable, but they are all important and worthy in their own right.
There’s a motorbike enthusiast, who has explored Northern Pakistan on her bike (Zenith Irfan), an aspiring model (Rehmat Ajmal), an illustrator from Peshawar (Saheefa Jabbar Khattak), a head-scarf designer (Mahoor Jamal), virtual artists (Alina Tauseef and Samiha Khan) and so many other girls, who may not be fashion models, but are role models in some way or the other. For the target audience, these girls are either just like them, or like someone they can aspire to be.
The next marketing campaign, while not featuring relatable girls, contains a message that is exactly what young women in our society need. Gul Ahmed’s latest marketing campaign, bearing the slogan ‘#MeinPerfectHoon’ (‘I am perfect’), is a commendable marketing effort that aims at empowering the target audience. The campaign, featuring the model Amna Ilyas, and actors Anam Fayyaz, Minal Khan and Noor Khan, advocates body positivity, and the importance of embracing one’s imperfections. The TVC, directed by Adcom Leo Burnett, has each woman proudly embrace her shortcomings; be it her dusky complexion, her unruly curls, a mole, or a crooked nose. Taking pride in their imperfections, they treat them as an asset, rather than a liability.
Not only in Pakistan, society in general holds women up to unrealistic standards of beauty; being fair, having certain features, having a certain height, being a certain size etcetera. The subject matter, while controversial, needs to be addressed so that we can start having a progressive conversation about women in our society, and that’s exactly what Gul Ahmed has done – get the conversation started. Body positivity is not about undermining the beauty in being fair, or slim, or having exotic features; it is about understanding that you can be beautiful in spite of those things. It is about beauty being skin deep.
Start of something new
Of course, this isn’t the first time that local clothing brands have tried to reinvent the wheel with their marketing campaigns. Even this time around, Nishat and Gul Ahmed aren’t the only ones that tried to do something different. Al-Karam, for example, has also tried to push a message of positivity through its latest campaign, but there seems to be something lacking in the effort
By Tanya Sheikh
This year, lawn brands gave women more than just a variety of clothes; they gave them importance.
In Pakistan, there are five seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Lawn. For many people, lawn season is that time of the year when, just like you dread load-shedding in summer and gas-shedding in winter, you can’t wait for life to be discovered on another planet (and, of course, for there to be affordable inter-planetary travel). For others, it’s like chaand raat… only better.
Seasonal madness
If you’re here to learn something new and revolutionary about horticulture and landscaping, we advise you to leave this page. The subject of this article is a fabric that is insanely popular in the Sub-Continent, especially at this time of the year.
Over the last couple of years, lawn season has been synonymous with mass hysteria among women. More recently, lawn season has resulted in a surge of viral videos showing just how far some women are willing to go for a piece of clothing (case in point: The Sapphire lawn stampede). The videos, which were initially amusing, quickly became a source of second-hand embarrassment. After all, seeing your mothers and sisters recreate a scene from World War Z is not a pleasant experience. However, this year has been different. Fortunately, this lawn season is making waves for the right reasons.
Shaking things up
One of the first signs foreshadowing the impending lawn season are the billboards and banners – hundreds and thousands of them – plastered all over the country. While that remains unchanged, this year, two giants in the lawn ‘scene’, decided to shake things up and forego the run-of-the-mill photo shoots quintessential of the lawn billboard culture. The brands in question are Nishat Linen and Gul Ahmed, two veterans in the lawn industry, who, with their current marketing campaigns, are showing the rookies how it’s done.
The campaigns
Let’s talk about Nishat Linen first. For its NL You line, Nishat seems to have wanted to accurately represent its target audience – the youth. They wanted their campaign to reflect the spirit of young, Pakistani girls who are fun, independent and fashion-forward; they wanted to create something that was real and relatable.
Something about the girls in the campaign feels fun and genuine. Maybe it’s their smiles; maybe it’s the fact that while they are beautiful, they don’t look like cookie-cutter models. If there’s a tall girl in the mix, there’s a short one too; if there’s a girl wearing sleeveless, the one right next to her is in a burqa. It proves that you don’t have to look a certain way or wear a certain thing to be considered worthy of being featured on a nationwide campaign. All the girls in the campaign may not be recognisable, but they are all important and worthy in their own right.
There’s a motorbike enthusiast, who has explored Northern Pakistan on her bike (Zenith Irfan), an aspiring model (Rehmat Ajmal), an illustrator from Peshawar (Saheefa Jabbar Khattak), a head-scarf designer (Mahoor Jamal), virtual artists (Alina Tauseef and Samiha Khan) and so many other girls, who may not be fashion models, but are role models in some way or the other. For the target audience, these girls are either just like them, or like someone they can aspire to be.
The next marketing campaign, while not featuring relatable girls, contains a message that is exactly what young women in our society need. Gul Ahmed’s latest marketing campaign, bearing the slogan ‘#MeinPerfectHoon’ (‘I am perfect’), is a commendable marketing effort that aims at empowering the target audience. The campaign, featuring the model Amna Ilyas, and actors Anam Fayyaz, Minal Khan and Noor Khan, advocates body positivity, and the importance of embracing one’s imperfections. The TVC, directed by Adcom Leo Burnett, has each woman proudly embrace her shortcomings; be it her dusky complexion, her unruly curls, a mole, or a crooked nose. Taking pride in their imperfections, they treat them as an asset, rather than a liability.
Not only in Pakistan, society in general holds women up to unrealistic standards of beauty; being fair, having certain features, having a certain height, being a certain size etcetera. The subject matter, while controversial, needs to be addressed so that we can start having a progressive conversation about women in our society, and that’s exactly what Gul Ahmed has done – get the conversation started. Body positivity is not about undermining the beauty in being fair, or slim, or having exotic features; it is about understanding that you can be beautiful in spite of those things. It is about beauty being skin deep.
Start of something new
Of course, this isn’t the first time that local clothing brands have tried to reinvent the wheel with their marketing campaigns. Even this time around, Nishat and Gul Ahmed aren’t the only ones that tried to do something different. Al-Karam, for example, has also tried to push a message of positivity through its latest campaign, but there seems to be something lacking in the effort
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Berlin celebrates Pakistan Day like never before!
The Embassy of Pakistan hosted a grand reception in Berlin at the Maritim Hotel to celebrate the 77th Pakistan Day.
AYESHA GHAFFAR ABOUT 6 HOURS AGO
The audience witnessed a glitzy couture display by Elan, jewellery exhibition by Sherezad and a music concert by Zeb Bangash as part of Pakistan Day celebrations.
The ambassador, Jauhar Saleem highlighted the achievements of Pakistan economically, culturally and in terms of security. Various German diplomats, parliament members of Germany and German Pakistanis were invited to the reception.
Talking to Geo, Jauhar said, “Pakistan and Germany have been partners in promoting peace and development and withhold friendly relations.”
“Pakistan’s image hasn’t been promoted positively and the West has several misconceptions about the country,” he further added. He insisted that a progressive and prosperous Pakistan with vibrant culture and flourishing fashion industry is what the world today needs to see.
Khadija Shah’s Elan Haute Couture collection was applauded and sent out the idea that Pakistan is constantly growing especially in terms of fashion. This was the first time the collection was showcased to a Berliner audience.
The highlight, however, was the ambassador’s wife, Zara Jauhar who walked the ramp as the showstopper for Elan. “I am happy to participate in the show for Pakistan and I am glad today’s show was a huge success in terms of representing Pakistan,” she said.
The exhibition of ‘Zamarrud’ jewellery collection captivated the audience for its gorgeous designs and designer behind the collection Sherezad shared her idea behind the exhibit; “the idea was to show the people or Berlin that people back home are doing creative and extraordinary work,” she said while talking to a Geo. She also added that the designs were handcrafted and produced back in Karachi.
To entertain the audience, Zeb Bangash presented fusion music of Pakistan and Persia. “Pakistan and Germany share close cultural bonds and I appreciate Goethe Institute and Anne Marie Schimmel Haus for actively working in Pakistan despite the difficult times,” she said. Zeb performed with four local Berlin musicians.
German participant, Dr. Laura expressed her fondness for the embellishments and believes that this can add more colour and vibrancy to German fashion.
The extraordinary reception was attended by 600 people including Pakistanis as well as German locals and praised by all for the beautiful cultural representation.
http://www.hipinpakistan.com/news/1152144/berlin-celebrates-pakistan-day-like-never-before
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The Embassy of Pakistan hosted a grand reception in Berlin at the Maritim Hotel to celebrate the 77th Pakistan Day.
AYESHA GHAFFAR ABOUT 6 HOURS AGO
The audience witnessed a glitzy couture display by Elan, jewellery exhibition by Sherezad and a music concert by Zeb Bangash as part of Pakistan Day celebrations.
The ambassador, Jauhar Saleem highlighted the achievements of Pakistan economically, culturally and in terms of security. Various German diplomats, parliament members of Germany and German Pakistanis were invited to the reception.
Talking to Geo, Jauhar said, “Pakistan and Germany have been partners in promoting peace and development and withhold friendly relations.”
“Pakistan’s image hasn’t been promoted positively and the West has several misconceptions about the country,” he further added. He insisted that a progressive and prosperous Pakistan with vibrant culture and flourishing fashion industry is what the world today needs to see.
Khadija Shah’s Elan Haute Couture collection was applauded and sent out the idea that Pakistan is constantly growing especially in terms of fashion. This was the first time the collection was showcased to a Berliner audience.
The highlight, however, was the ambassador’s wife, Zara Jauhar who walked the ramp as the showstopper for Elan. “I am happy to participate in the show for Pakistan and I am glad today’s show was a huge success in terms of representing Pakistan,” she said.
The exhibition of ‘Zamarrud’ jewellery collection captivated the audience for its gorgeous designs and designer behind the collection Sherezad shared her idea behind the exhibit; “the idea was to show the people or Berlin that people back home are doing creative and extraordinary work,” she said while talking to a Geo. She also added that the designs were handcrafted and produced back in Karachi.
To entertain the audience, Zeb Bangash presented fusion music of Pakistan and Persia. “Pakistan and Germany share close cultural bonds and I appreciate Goethe Institute and Anne Marie Schimmel Haus for actively working in Pakistan despite the difficult times,” she said. Zeb performed with four local Berlin musicians.
German participant, Dr. Laura expressed her fondness for the embellishments and believes that this can add more colour and vibrancy to German fashion.
The extraordinary reception was attended by 600 people including Pakistanis as well as German locals and praised by all for the beautiful cultural representation.
http://www.hipinpakistan.com/news/1152144/berlin-celebrates-pakistan-day-like-never-before
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’آج کا جدید پاکستان‘، برلن میں فیشن شو
یوم پاکستان کی مناسبت سے برلن میں پاکستانی سفارت خانے نے ایک فیشن شو کا انعقاد بھی کیا۔ اس فیشن شو کی ایک جھلک دیکھیے برلن سے عرفان آفتاب کی اس ویڈیو رپورٹ میں:
http://m.dw.com/ur/آج-کا-جدید-پاکستان-برلن-میں-فیشن-شو/av-38118579
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یوم پاکستان کی مناسبت سے برلن میں پاکستانی سفارت خانے نے ایک فیشن شو کا انعقاد بھی کیا۔ اس فیشن شو کی ایک جھلک دیکھیے برلن سے عرفان آفتاب کی اس ویڈیو رپورٹ میں:
http://m.dw.com/ur/آج-کا-جدید-پاکستان-برلن-میں-فیشن-شو/av-38118579
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