One year later:
The dish on our iconic Glamazons from Pakistan
In HELLO! India's Fifth Anniversary issue in 2012, I unveiled our super-exclusive foray into the homes—and wardrobes—of some of Pakistan’s most glamorous young women who also happen to be yummy mummys: Sabene Saigol, Amna Bashir, Iqraa Mansha and Sanam Taseer.
Here's a look back at some unseen photographs from our trendsetting editorial coup along with recent photos from their personal collections.
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| HELLO! India, April 2012 |
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Let's catch up with the girls as they give us their lowdown on their year:
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| Sabene Saigol photographed at home by Khawar Riaz |
SABENE SAIGOL
describes her year as professionally very busy. Pregnancy didn’t deter the
ad agency and publishing executive from her work commitments.
On March 1st,
Sabene, her husband Sayeed and four-year-old son, Sultan, welcomed adorable
twins Nadine and Dahlia in London. Says
Sabene about her Glamazon experience in HELLO!--“Lots of friends in India called
and many were surprised I agreed to the shoot since I am generally a very private
person! I even received phone calls from friends I had lost contact with since
college.”
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| In masquerade; photo courtesy of Libas |
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| Pregnant with twins and no less glamorous; photo courtesy of Lotus PR |
AMNA BASHIR received a warm response to her Glamazon
appearance—sometimes a little too warm—with stalkers at international airports!
The mother of four spent a busy year launching international distribution for
her furniture and apparel lines and took an extended trip to the Continent with
her husband Asif.
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| Amna Bashir in repose in her Zen-like bath and dressing room; photographed by Faisal Farooqui/Dragonfly |
Amna also
laments the loss of an esteemed friend in the late Yash Chopra: “He was always a pleasure to meet and talk
to—warm and thoughtful, never forgetting to call on my birthdays and special
occasions like Eid. I was devastated when he died! He would send us original signed
copies of his classics and I would send lawn
ka joras to his wife. He was born in Lahore and he’d wanted so much to
visit and stay in our house,” she says. “May he rest in peace.”
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| Keeping it cool in this season's lawn (cotton voile); Photo by Faisal Farooqui/Dragonfly |
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| In Venice (photo from personal collection) |
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| Iqraa Mansha in her enchantingly designed home; photographed by Faisal Farooqui/Dragonfly |
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| Attending her brother's wedding in Karachi; Photo by Riaz Jamal |
IQRAA MANSHA
has been busy as always, set to launch her boutique hotel and is working on a
mixed development project, both in Lahore. Her son Khazain, the apple of her
eye, is now 4.
She says that her Glamazon appearance “shocked” Pakistani
publishers who had made numerous attempts for her appearance in local
magazines. Iqraa also got numerous random inquiries from Indian women on
Facebook about her Pakistani outfits in the shoot. She confides that she’d like
to have another child but is so “petrified of the nonstop nausea” that she’s
expecting a decade-long age-gap between her first and second children.
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| Photographed in her contemporary surroundings by Fazal Rizvi; Art by Salman Toor |
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