The high-profile kebab krew

Romil RatraAkanksha Nanda with Gayatri Khanna

Akanksha Nanda with Gayatri Khanna

Last week there was another high-profile ladies-only luncheon (along the lines of the one thrown by Harpers Bazaar) at Kebab Korner, InterContinental Marine Drive to launch their new healthy menu & decor hosted by Gayatri Khanna and (in this case ladies man!) Romil Ratra (GM, InterContinental Marine Drive.)

The afternoon was a quintessential mix of food & fashion (just how the the rich and restless like it!)

Anaita Shroff Adajania

Jyoti Gwalani and Sangeeta Khanna

Mona Narang and Priya Aila

Sonali Sachdev and Mahbanoo Kotwal

Vanita Bhandari, Nayantara Thacker & Parizad Kolah Marshall

Pratima Bhatia with Naaz Zaveri

Rosa Catalano with Bandana Tewari

Spotted: Akanksha Nanda, Amrita D, Rosa Catalano, Naaz Zaveri; sipping on a sweet paan martini (how bourgeois, n’est pas?), Arti Surendranath (who I spotted last Sunday at East, my favorite pan-asian restaurant at Kemps Corner, Mumbai having an intimate dinner with hubby Kailash and a friend, but for some reason I felt weird invading her privacy so didn’t take a picture, my bad.) Bandana Tewari, Sangeeta Khanna, Shaheen Abbas, Anita Vaswani, Priya Ailawadi, Parizad Kolah Marshall, Nayantara Thacker, Anaita Shroff Adajania, soon-to-be-mum Arshiya Eappen, Nisha JamVwal, Dolly Thakore, Roopa Vohra, Vanita Bhandari, Shibani Agarwal, Neena Agarwal, Sabina Chopra, Dimple Roy, Pratima Bhatia, Mona Narang, Jyoti Gwalani, Priya Ailwadi, Kanchan Kundanmal, Devika Khanna, Bunty Khanna and Ivana Perovic (love the shoes, love the waist coat and the waist-size!)

Arti Surendranath, Ivana Perovic and Kanchan Kundanmal

Amrita D., Anita Vaswani and Arshiya Eappen

Roopa Vohra and Dolly Thakore

Shaheen Abbas with Nisha JamVwal

Quite the attendance roster of the well-heeled ladies of leisure dontchya think? HHC waiting for your fashion review!

Nisha JamVwal’s Head Gear

Nisha JamVwal

Navaz Modi Singhania

Mona Singh

Oh look more hats.  Hot on the heels of Prahlad Kakkar, Nisha JamVwal’s personal hat collection came to life at Lakme Fashion Week 2009 at the Carlsberg Lounge. Ritu Beri also designed a special hat to add to the the millinery which was flown down from Delhi for the occasion.  The various hat connoisseurs included Mamta Raja, Mona Singh, Monica Vazirali, Navaz Modi Singhania, Ritu & Kiran Janjani, Ruchi Gujrati, Vida Samzai, and Viveka Babji.

I hear Sapna Bhavnani was also part of the celebrity “what style means to me” parade and got her gazillionth tattoo done there live. Carlsberg flew down a French tattoo artist (who now lives in Hrishikesh) I’m told there were no lines, it was all done in dots. Gosh that girl’s got guts (or very thick skin!)