Stars and personalities at Lux Style Awards

A constellation of music stars, along with some big-name personalities, gathered at the 4th annual prestigious Lux Style Awards, which held on October 3 at Expo Centre, Karachi.
Fans saw glamour and sophistication in the fashions worn by the nominees, presenters and guests who attended this year's awards ceremony. The LSA Red Carpet has become the largest fashion show in Pakistan with each ensemble an individual work of art.
LSA 2003 ushered in the Red Carpet in Pakistan and now every large and small sized event attempts to put together a worthy Red Carpet segment. This year's Lux awards, glitzy, gorgeous, sexy and sensuous, were presented by Uniliver Pakistan Limited. The Catwalk Production was presented by Freiha Altaf. She had teamed up with Fareshteh Islam as Award Manager.
Lux biggest event tributed the movers and shakers in the world of fashion. Last year the awards were held in Dubai. All winners were selected through viewer's choice poll and 12 have been judged through a jury. The jury was appointed by Unilever Pakistan.
Entering the main venue, the Red Carpet area, has given some television channels space to set up their mini stations to air some Red Carpet moments. Pakistan's exciting fashion designers were gearing up for the biggest fashion outing of the year. Ammar Belal, Ather Hafeez, Deepak Perwani, Maheen Khan, Nilofar Shahid, Nomi Ansari, Sadia Mirza, Sana and Safinaz, Sara Shahid of Sublime, Sonya Battla, Tazeen Hassan and Umar Sayeed were dressing stars, super-models and big-name personalities for the glamours night.
Renowned stylist Nabila and her creative team had been hired to style performers and presenters. Nabila Altaf finalised the presenters and the stars to walk down the Red Carpet and grace the event. Inside the theatre the evening was all about entertainment. But on the Red Carpet it's the fashion statement that counts.
Nabila participated as LSA stylist since 2003 when she styled the presenters and perfomers. Super-models Aaminah Haq and stunning Iman Ali and Meera were there the LUX girls of the year 2005. This is the first association for all three leading ladies in the capacity of a host.
Aaminah and Iman have previously been a part of the LUX Style Awards as presenters and performers while Meera was an integral part of last year's Lollywood segment.
The LSA recognised many categories in the performing field.
Michal Hassan has been given the Best Band Award. Asim Raza for Best Music Video of "Mahi Way". Abrar-ul-Haq has been given Best Music Album for "Naachan Mein Ude Naal". In category of best play of Pakistan Television; Humaun Saeed and Sadia Imam judged Best Play Actor and Actress on PTV play. (Luckly Humaun got three times best actor award).
The Best PTV Director was Ayub Khawar. The Best PTV Director was Syed Suleman for "Hum Sa Juda Naa Huna". Zohra Karim, Editor SHE Magazine, received Best Journalist award in showbiz category.
In satellite channels; the Best Satellite Actoress was Reema on "Yaad Tou Aai Gaa" telecast by Geo TV. The Best Play on Satellite Channels was "Anna" telecast by Geo and Best Director was Abdullah Qadvani. The Best Director on Satellite Channels was Anjum Shahzad for "Woo Tees Din" telecast by Geo. Nabila and her team won Best Hair and Make-up award.
The Best Male Model of year 2005 was Imad Arfani. The Best Female Model of 2005 was Vienne.
The Best Men Wear Designer, Khadi. Best Photographer was Ather and Shahzad. Best Fashion Designer between 5 to 10 years was Hassan Shaharyar. Best Fashion Designer between 10 to 15 years was Umar Saeed. This year, the much coveted Unilever Chairman's Lifetime Achievement Honorary Award was presented to Shamim Aara, who made an outstanding contribution in her occupation.
Tributes were paid to those personalities who are no more in this world - Rangeela, Jamshad Ansari, Najam Anjum, Afreen Baig, Perveez Mehdi and actor Rehman.
Singers Abrar, Ali Azmat, Atif Aslam, Shahzad Roa, Zafar Ali, Fusion, Faisal and Bilal Maqsood, Najam Shiraz were prominent among those present. While from Lollywood Reema, Meera, Rasham, Babra Sharif, Nisho, Sangita, Bahar, Alia, Naghma were there. Babra Sharif, performed live for the first time on stage. Millions of TV audience will be watching the show after Ramazan.