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Talking Threads, Bridal & Celebration Couture Brand Opens Their Flagship Studio in New Delhi

February 2023, New Delhi: Inspired by tradition and moved by the modern world, Talking Threads, the couture brand celebrates culture in fashion and exceptional craftsmanship, to create gorgeous wedding wear for brides & grooms, celebration, and evening couture.

Talking Threads was founded in 2014 and has created a huge following of discerning clients globally, with its international & national digital presence (www.talkingthreads.in). The brand has recently launched its flagship studio in Mehrauli, New Delhi.

Under the creative leadership of Pearl Uppal, the brand is passionately driven to dress the dreams of brides and grooms with style, personalization, masterful craftsmanship, and attention to detail. Handmade, tasteful embroideries, luxurious fabrics, couture finishes, and customizations come to the forefront with every Talking Threads creation. The brand’s core aesthetic is committed to elegance, sophistication, and timelessness across three (3) distinct lines: bridal and wedding couture, future heirloom pieces, and evening couture.

“Our raison d’être is to make the artisanal craftsmanship relevant to the modern consumer, to appeal to the discerning minds that seek timeless elegance and beauty in the details, and, to democratize bridal couture by making high-quality sophisticated glamour accessible to every discerning bride and groom.”

The bridal couture line offers artisanal, fashion-forward silhouettes and industry-leading customizations for the modern bride, groom, and celebrating families. For women, the collection offers lehengas, shararas, sarees, anarkalis, and gowns. The men’s collection includes sherwanis, bandhgalas, prince coats, bandi jackets, and kurtas. The evening couture line offers confident sophisticated glamour with needlework artistry across their cocktail sarees, gowns, mermaid skirts, and jackets. Their heritage and future heirloom line is deeply rooted in Indian crafts and offers coveted artisanal pieces for the heritage connoisseur. Distinguished wearable art is crafted in Talking Threads ateliers, with a mission to unite tradition with modernity.

The Talking Threads wedding couture flagship store in Mehrauli, Delhi, opened in February 2023 and is an amalgamation of creativity and couture at its finest. It delivers beautiful, handcrafted, and elegant wedding couture for brides, grooms and their families with market-leading color customization to meet the dream wedding theme of their discerning clientele.

Gera Developments Successfully Hands Over 108 Row Houses to the Customers of Gera’s ‘World of Joy’

February 22, 2023, | Pune: Gera Developments, pioneers of the real estate business and the award-winning creators of premium residential and commercial projects in Pune, Goa, and California, has successfully handed over 108-row houses to the customers of Gera’s World of Joy located in Upper Kharadi, Pune. To mark the handover of the Row Houses at the project, Gera Developments organized a fun-filled three-day event which concluded recently.

Gera’s World of Joy, which is the second ChildCentric® Homes Project in Pune has been a trendsetter in the Pune residential realty market. The real estate developer had already cited strong pre-sales numbers at the time of the launch itself. Built on the idea of providing safety, convenience, fun, and development to children, right at their doorstep, Gera’s World of Joy has witnessed tremendous demand from home buyers for premium, valuable, livable and child-friendly homes. While the other units remain sold out, delivery of the row houses comes at a time when the market is struggling with delayed and stuck projects underlying Gera’s intent of fulfilling its commitment made to the customers.

Speaking on the event and the delivery of the Gera’s World of Joy row houses, Mr. Rohit Gera, Managing Director of Gera Developments, said, “The success of Gera’s World of Joy ChildCentric®️ Homes makes it clear that Gera Developments has taken a leap towards a new phase, an era driven by customer-centricity, innovation and quality. Timely delivery of the row houses is a testimony to the years of focus on product quality, customer delivery and our values. Moreover, the product offering truly caters to the needs of today’s young aspirational Indian family. Through our ChildCentric® Homes, we are ensuring that children get the best exposure, training, and opportunities to learn and pursue their talents under the guidance of the industry’s best experts, with whom, we have partnered to offer coaching.”

Gera’s World of Joy features a range of apartments and amenities, some of which include 2 & 3 Bedroom Duplexes, 2 & 3 Bedroom Apartments, 2 & 3 Bedroom Row Houses and Studio Apartments. The first phase of the project contains 900+ apartments. Gera’s World of Joy is spread over 20 acres and has clubhouses with an area in excess of 40,000 square feet. The clubhouses and open areas house facilities such as the indoor climate-controlled half Olympic length swimming pool, badminton courts, squash courts, gymnastics hall as well as the dance studio, art studio and gaming rooms. The outdoor areas house the tennis courts and other outdoor facilities. With Gera’s World of Joy, Gera Developments has raised the bar for other potential development prospects that will unfold in the market.

The homes are equipped with DEFT’s smart home devices with Google-integrated voice-controlled home automation and comprise other stand-out leisure options like a rock-climbing wall, skating rink, and a mini theatre. Gera’s World of Joy will host a two-story shopping plaza as a part of its retail offering for occupants to source their daily necessities.

A Century of Pure Passion. BMW Motorrad launches the BMW R nineT 100 Years and BMW R 18 100 Years in India.

BMW Motorrad India launched the BMW R nineT 100 Years and the BMW R 18 100 Years limited edition motorcycles in India. These motorcycles can be booked at BMW Motorrad India dealerships from today onwards.

In December 1922, BMW chief designer Max Friz puts the first full-scale BMW motorcycle on the drawing board. At its heart is an air-cooled two-cylinder four-stroke boxer engine. The first BMW motorcycle, the R 32, was presented in September 1923. This heralded the beginning of BMW motorcycle production and launched an unprecedented success story.

To celebrate its 100-year history, BMW Motorrad is now presenting the two protagonists of the Heritage experience world – the R nineT Roadster and the R 18 Cruiser with big boxer – as 100 Years edition models. In keeping with the year in which BMW Motorrad was founded, both models are limited to 1923 units each.

Mr. Vikram Pawah, President, of BMW Group India, said, “One hundred years ago, the R 32 kick-started a unique success story. Today we are celebrating our exciting history with two new icons: the BMW R nineT 100 Years and the BMW R 18 100 Years. Limited to only 1,923 units each, these models are for absolute aficionados and convey a feeling of nostalgia. The iconic design and the unmistakable boxer engine illustrate that it’s about the roots of BMW Motorrad, about historically inspired shapes and details, about an authentic riding experience and about reducing motorbikes to the essentials. In short: The Heritage world of experience is all about a unique attitude to life, shaped by the legendary boxer engine.”

The ex-showroom prices are as follows:

The BMW R nineT 100 Years – INR 24,00,000

The BMW R 18 100 Years – INR 25,90,000

*Prices prevailing at the time of invoicing will be applicable. Delivery will be made ex-showroom. Ex-showroom price (inclusive of GST and compensation cess) as applicable but excludes Road Tax, RTO statutory taxes/fees, other local tax / cess levies and insurance. Prices and options are subject to change without prior notice. For further information, please contact your local authorized BMW Motorrad Dealer.

For ease of ownership, BMW India Financial Services is offering a complete finance package and the option to fund insurance and accessories.

For complete peace of mind, BMW Motorrad bikes come with a standard warranty for three years, unlimited kilometres. The warranty can be extended to fourth and fifth year at an attractive cost. Road-Side Assistance, a 24×7 365 days package further ensures prompt services in case of breakdown and towing situations.

BMW R nineT 100 Years: The great roadster tradition from BMW Motorrad in particularly refined and sophtisticated packaging.

The reduced design language of the R nineT is shaped by 100 years of motorcycle construction and BMW Motorrad’s unbroken passion for the boxer engine. Classic roadster design skilfully sets the scene with a compact tank and upright seating position as well as high-quality materials and stylish design elements. The new R nineT 100 Years becomes an exclusive anniversary edition thanks to numerous other special features. The heart is still the air/oil-cooled, 80 kW (109 hp) two-cylinder boxer engine. In the anniversary edition the legendary engine is accompanied by a wide range of options and an elaborate surface concept.

Classic Chrome and Option 719 Parts: High-grade paint-on-chrome surfaces and exquisite milled parts and wheels.

Paint finishes in combination with chrome surfaces also have an almost 100-year tradition in motorcycle construction. Chrome surfaces, usually consisting of a copper, nickel and final chrome layer are characterised by their hardness and resulting high durability, very good protection against corrosion, but above all by a radiant, mirror-like shine. This made chrome a common stylistic device for designers from the late 1920s onwards, in combination with high-quality paint concepts. The BMW R 75/5 with chrome-plated tank sides and side covers, for example, is legendary at BMW Motorrad. With the new BMW R nineT 100 Years and R 18 100 Years and the Classic Chrome surface concept, BMW Motorrad is reviving this incomparably sophisticated interplay of paint and chrome.

The tank is a combination of black with chrome and white double-lining and is complemented by knee pads and a 100 Years badge. Classic chrome is also found on the seat hump. The front wheel cover is also painted in black and features white double lining. The seat bench in two-tone combination black/oxblood rounds off the high-quality look.

Numerous black components such as fork tubes, air intake snorkel and some Option 719 components complement this harmoniously. The R nineT 100 Years includes the 719 Classic wheels option with black anodised rim rings, the Option 719 Shadow milled parts package with milled cylinder head covers, engine housing covers, seat holders, oil filler plug and the Option 719 Shadow II milled parts package, consisting of adjustable hand levers and a footrest system, pillion footrests as well as expansion tank covers and handlebar end mirrors. Adaptive turning light and the Comfort Package with heated grips, cruise control and Driving Modes Pro complete the extensive equipment of the edition model.

BMW R 18 100 Years: The big boxer stylishly designed using a special paintwork and surface concept with Classic Chrome.

The unmissable centrepiece of the R 18 100 Years is the 67 kW (91 hp) boxer engine with the largest displacement ever installed by BMW Motorrad. Both technically and visually, the BMW R 18 borrows from famous BMW models such as the BMW R 5 and puts the focus back on the essentials of motorcycling: Purist, no-frills technology, and the boxer engine as the epicenter of riding pleasure. The big boxer is also complemented by numerous special features as well as a high-grade surface concept in the anniversary edition of the R 18.

The color scheme of the R 18 100 Years, like that of the anniversary model of the R nineT, is in Classic Chrome and thus combines black paintwork and high-gloss chrome surfaces as well as white double lining and a 100 Years badge. The paint-on-chrome concept in Classic Chrome is also found on the rear wheel cover in combination with a white double lining. The front wheel cover and the side covers are painted in black, complemented by white double lining on the front mudguard. The Option 719 seat is upholstered in the bicolor combination black/oxblood with high-quality diamond embossing blends in harmoniously.

Black as a symbolic color scheme of great BMW Motorrad tradition also adorns the engine, transmission housing and rear axle drive. The exact designation is Avus Black – a reminiscence of the legendary high-speed racetrack in Berlin, where BMW Motorrad once celebrated great racing successes and where the Avus monument with BMW Motorrad factory rider Ernst Henne still commemorates it today. Berlin is also home to the BMW Motorrad production plant. The plant located in Berlin-Spandau is not only a production site, it is also the lead plant for the international motorcycle production of BMW Motorrad.

The R 18 100 Years is complemented by numerous chrome parts from the Chrome design option. The high-quality and durable galvanic surface coating can be found on these parts: Handlebar fittings, gearshift and foot brake levers, handlebar clamps, handlebar weights, mirrors, brake master cylinders, brake calipers, engine casing cover, cylinder head covers and intake manifold trims.

Other features of the BMW R 18 100 Years also include chromed Akrapovič rear silencers with perforated tailpipe trims in the “propeller style” of the BMW brand logo. Safety and comfort are ensured by Headlight Pro with adaptive turning light, reversing aid, electronic cruise control and heated grips.