Isabella Rossellini sports fashion designer Sonam Dubal's design

Sonam Dubal and Gail Percy and right Isabella Rossellini PicAFPWord comes in that no less than Isabella Rossellini the ItalianAmerican actress filmmaker author and longtime face of Lancome has been sporting the exquisite hand made coats and capes of Delhibased fashion designer Sonam Dubal Rossellini represents the pinnacle of international cinematic aristocracy not only is she the daughter of cinematic legends Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman but she also appears to have dated married a sizable number of cinematic legends herself Martin Scorsese David Lynch and Gary Oldman to name a fewShe spent a day with me and Carla Hetland the costume designer of her 10part TV series Shut Eye in which she plays a psychic choosing her wardrobe from my Vancouver showroom Maison Sanskarrdquo says Dubal ldquoAnd later when she came in herself and bought some for her personal wardrobe too she kept saying it was too much beauty to take in at once and that she wanted to buy everything in store says the graceful designer whose oeuvre is informed by the beautiful handmade textured textiles of his Maharashtrian and part TibetanSikkimese heritageAnd then as evidence of his elegance he is quick to share his success with his team ldquoThe corner stone of my work traveling and being appreciated around the world is my representative the anthropologist Gail Percy wife of Wade Davis the well known Canadian anthropologist and photographer who has chronicled the Amazon basin and who had great faith in my workrdquo he says ldquoIsabella Rossellini is exactly the kind of woman I have always designed my clothes forrdquo he says adding ldquoItrsquos quite amazing that she took to my collection in such a big wayrdquoMumbaikars deliveranceCould there be anything more clever than a chilled out psychedelic Goan beach shack in the heart of saddi Dilli called Lady Baga ldquoFor as long as I can remember Goa and its wonderful laidback beach culture has always held a special place in my heartrdquo says the Mumbaiborn and Delhi day tripper AD Singh whose abiding love for the place saw him get married to his longtime girlfriend Sabina on a balmy beach front locale there in the ninetiesAD Zoe Tara and Sabina SinghldquoItrsquos taken us many years but Irsquom so glad that wersquove finally managed to turn this lifelong love affair into a realityrdquo he says of the recently launched Connaught Place eatery which purports to be an unabashed paean to Flower Power The Beatles Peace Love Shiva Valley Baga beach Anjuna flea market Sand Sky and seaThe interiors at Lady BagaAnd with Sabina Singh teaming up with Clement DersquoSylva to create an ambience that recreates the full Goa experience and a menu sporting crispy fried Bombil and Father Lorenzorsquos chorizos and drinks like the cashew and palm vodkabased cocktails Baga might just be the answer to every Mumbaikarrsquos prayers it might keep the fat cat Dilli wala so content in its environs that they never actually want to visit the real thing againMarathon girlldquoRunning is really addictive It makes you extremely happy because of the endorphins rushing through you You never see an unhappy runnerrdquo says Vidhi Seth who stood first with a time of 334 minutes in the amateur open category in this Sundayrsquos marathonVidhi SethIt was the erstwhile designerrsquos first full marathon although shersquod run seven half marathons earlier ldquoA full is a completely different experience Yoursquore really testing yourself physically and mentallyrdquo says Seth whose preparation involved a schedule of 7080km weekly mileage giving up her Saturday nights out and showing up for practice at 6am four days a week The erstwhile young designer after a running career in school took up marathon training with coach Savio DrsquoSouza post the birth of her daughter Vihana two years agoldquoThe two things which really helped boost my run were seeing my family at Worli sea face and Haji Ali cheering their lungs out for me and mentally repeating this extremely lame saying which I read on a banner during the race lsquopain is temporary pride is foreverrsquordquoThe teens mdash a hair raising experienceldquoRaising teenagers is like nailing JellO to a treerdquo says the renowned educationist Lina Asher who will be launching her second book Drama Teen later this month Asher whose first book Who do you think you are kidding was a general parenting book says that lsquoDrama Teenrsquo was also meant initially to be one but a recent experience she had interacting with students of one of her schools in Bhopal made her rethink the approachLina AsherldquoI visited the school to conduct a conference for parents based on my first bookrdquo she says ldquobut since I had the afternoon free my education partners requested that I conduct a session with 12 to 16 year olds Most of their questions were relating to the issues they were facing with their parents and they wanted conflict resolution strategiesrdquoldquoIn Drama Teen each topic I touch on I write to the parent and then the teen giving them a chance to step into each otherrsquos shoes and therefore bridge the gen gaprdquo she says As for the actual writing of the book Asher swears that it was achieved lsquoSitting in Goa just forcing the discipline of 106 at my computerrsquo Wersquod take her advice mdash teenage or notBirds of a featherThe NRIs have been in Mumbai in full force these past few weeks As everyone worth their Jimmy Choos knows this is mating season in NRI land when the rich and famous from London Lagos and LA come down to scout for eligible suitors for their progenyAnd amongst this upper crust stuck together with dough none is as hilarious as this selfstyled society Botox queen who was overheard loudly commenting at a recent celebratory soiree to another of her ilk ldquoletrsquos wait till the Mumbai trash departs so that we can have the party all to ourselvesrdquoThat she meant the other homing pigeons like herself whorsquod flown in on transatlantic First Class return bookings was transparently obvious Unsurprisingly the other guests were not amused