• 28 October 2020
  • Tina Edward Gunawardhana
Designer 1-2-1: Heshanie Ileana Tennekoon

Following her motto of “your actions need to map out what you want” designer Heshanie launched her brand Ileana in 2019 at a pop-up store in Brisb

  • 20 October 2020
  • Tina Edward Gunawardhana
Designer 1-2-1: Akhila Liyanage

Torn between a career in engineering and fashion design, enterprising Akhila managed to complete degrees in both. Hailing from a family where producin

  • 06 October 2020
  • Tina Edward Gunawardhana
Designer 1-2-1: Subha Grassi

Creative Director and CEO of Salvage Recycle, Subha Grassi also runs her own design company in Sri Lanka, Ruby Studio, which partners with innovative

  • 30 September 2020
  • Tina Edward Gunawardhana
Tara Pascale Germani

Wearing many hats including that of an interior designer, spatial stylist, yoga teacher and jewellery designer, Tara is the Creator and Art Director o

  • 22 September 2020
  • Tina Edward Gunawardhana
Designer 1-2-1: Charuni

Hailing from a family which has worked in the apparel industry since the time she was a child, Charuni has spent most of her life in Bangladesh, Sri L

  • 16 September 2020
  • Danu Innasithamby
Fashionanbly Danu: Tharshana

Today I feature an amazingly talented man who has really created a brand that’s absolutely beautiful and timeless, Tharshana is known for making his

  • 08 September 2020
  • Tina Edward Gunawardhana
Designer 1-2-1: Shamindri Ranasinghe

Inspired by fashion icons of the 60s such as The Beatles, Twiggy, Jane Fonda and Marianne Faithful, Shamindri Ranasinghe a graduate of the AOD has use

  • 08 September 2020
  • Rihaab Mowlana
Beauty By Rosh to launch Cosmetics & Skincare Brand

Rosh Kumarasinghe, better known as Beauty By Rosh, has come a long way from her days as a wide-eyed aspiring beauty blogger on YouTube. Today, she hos

  • 02 September 2020
  • Tina Edward Gunawardhana
Designer 1-2-1: Senuri Doloswala

A graduate of the Academy of Design (AOD) Senuri was honoured when one of her creations, a shirt in hot pink with tulle frills was chosen to be worn b

  • 16 August 2020
  • Tina Edward Gunawardhana
HSBC Colombo Fashion Week Day 3

The final day of HSBC Colombo Fashion Week 2020 drew to a close at the Hilton with a large number of fashion aficionados turning out to support the re

  • 15 August 2020
  • Tina Edward Gunawardhana
HSBC Colombo Fashion Week Day 2

Day 2 of Colombo Fashion Week held at the Shangri-la saw a clutch of established designers present their collections. Central to their collection was

  • 14 August 2020
  • Tina Edward Gunawardhana
HSBC Colombo Fashion Week 2020: Emerging Designers

Colombo Fashion Week 2020 kicked off in the new normal adhering to a plethora of strict conditions. After months of lockdown and a hiatus on social ga

  • 01 August 2020
  • Danu Innasithamby
Fashionably Danu - Nithya

Today on Fashionably Danu, I feature a very talented designer with a very unique talent Nithya, I saw her at the Mercedes-Benz fashion week and I fell

  • 17 June 2020
  • Danu Innasithamby
Fashionably Danu - KÚR

I’m in very comfortable clothing - keeping it oversized seems to be the new trend. “Super soft lounge t-shirts by KÛR - Artist collaboration” i

  • 02 June 2020
  • Tina Edward Gunawardhana
Ruth Weerasinghe

Flying the flag for Sri Lankan design, Ruth Weerasinghe has earned a place in the finals of the Redress Design Award based in Hong Kong. Formerly know

  • 21 May 2020
  • Tina Edward Gunawardhana
Business in the New Normal

With life limping back to normal after 8 weeks of lockdown, the fashion industry is cautiously dipping its toes into a post-COVID-19 retail environmen

  • 19 May 2020
  • Danu Innasithamby
Fashionably Danu: La Ceyloné

Today on Fashionably Danu, I feature one of my favourite Lankan brands, La Ceyloné, and their cool new masks. When COVID19 lockdown just started, La

  • 06 May 2020
  • Panchali Illankoon
Vithya Visvendra

Bringing South Asia’s vivacious culture to the palette, Sri Lankan born Vithya Visvendra has carved a name for herself, mastering the art of creatin

  • 30 December 2019
  • Panchali Illankoon
THAMBILI ISLAND BOUTIQUE

Sri Lanka is all about living that tropical island life in style and summer and resort wear is undoubtably in high demand in our local market.

  • 02 December 2019
  • Tina Edward Gunawardhana
AOD Graduate Fashion Show

The graduating students of AOD presented their graduate fashion show at the newly opened Colombo innovation tower last Friday.

  • 11 November 2019
  • Fazmina Samat
Tahira Areeb - The simple yet luxury designer wear

From the young age of five years, Tahira Areeb, owner and founder of the luxury wear clothing brand Tahira Areeb has always been around stitching and

  • 24 September 2019
  • Danu Innasithamby
Fashionably, Danu Featuring - IKIGAI

Today I’m excited about featuring a very talented designer who has a swag about her I love!

  • 19 August 2019
  • Kamanthi Wickramasinghe
Natural dyeing: A creative solution for food waste

At Keshala’s residence, onion peels and many other food waste are resources. This is why most food waste ends up on her tie and dye desk rather than

  • 19 August 2019
  • Tina Edward Gunawardhana
Aviva Bidapa - Diving into the deep end

Nurturing her passion for swimwear, actress turned designer Aviva Bidapa recently launched her swimwear collection at The Design Collective.

  • 19 August 2019
  • Ashani Gunasekera
Harsh Bedi - Model turned Fashion Designer

Fashion is all about looks. It involves looking good, comfort in clothing and lots of compliments.

  • 12 August 2019
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Celebrate Colombo presents a ’Tribute to Colombo’

A weeklong celebration of Colombo came to a grand end with the Celebrate Colombo Tribute Show at the Taj Hotel on Sunday.

  • 11 August 2019
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OLU Swimweek Colombo: Day 3

Day 3 of the OLU Swim Week Colombo took place at the Shangri – La Hotel Colombo.

  • 10 August 2019
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OLU Swimweek Colombo: Day 2

Seasoned designers took to the fore on Day 2 of Olu Swim Week Colombo at the Galle Face Hotel

  • 09 August 2019
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Olu Swim Week Colombo: Emerging Designer Showcase

Fashion Fever descended on Colombo on day one of Olu Swim Week Colombo Luxury Resort Wear

  • 05 August 2019
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3rd Responsible Fashion Summit

The third edition of Responsible Fashion Summit will take place on the 8th of August at Hilton Colombo.