APRIL 2 - Designer Manish
Malhotra got Bollywood star Preity Zinta to walk on the ramp with
his outfit on day one of the Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) that opened in
Mumbai on Tuesday March 28.
Running till Saturday, India's
most prestigious fashion exhibition showcased the spring/summer
collections of some of the top fashion designers of the
country.
This was the first time that Preity Zinta
carried a designer’s creation on ramp. However, designer Manish
Malhotra clarified that Preity did not wear anything off-track from
the rest of the models and that her clothes were part of the line
that he was displaying.
Besides Manish
Malhotra, fashion designers Surily Goel had Bollywood glamour doll
Malaika Arora Khan walking with her creations.
Other
Bollywood superstars who walked the ramp were Katrina Kaif, Kajol
and Salman Khan. Sallu also cat walked for Surily. Katrina showed
off India's topnotch Ritu Beri's costumes.
It was Mumbai-based Surily Goel's sensational debut at the
show with her theme 'Romance Personified' whence she weaved a
magical story about a young carefree girl who falls in love and
eventually becomes a mature woman.
Actress Sushma Reddy posted
the opening of the show for designer Maheka Mirpuri.
Stars
like Rani Mukherjee, Aamir Khan, Neha Dhupia and Anupam Kher showed
up at the event to support their favorite designers.
Actor
John Abraham turned up at the end of the show clad in a black
wedding suit, drawing a frenzy of applause from the audience.
Some other top names in the world of fashion like Sabyasachi
Mukherjee, Manish Malhotra, Suneet Varma, Wendell Rodricks, Rocky S,
Ashish Soni and Priyadarshini Rao also showcased their creativity at
the five day event held in Mumbai.
Bollywood's fashion darling
Rocky S's "Lolita" collection was inspired by the intuitive killer
instinct in a woman. The ensembles were in various hues of pink,
cherry red and forest green--all embellished with gold.
The
event is considered to be very prestigious and the designers tried
their best to stand out of the clutter, by whichever means possible.
One way to do so was to persuade their Bollywood friends to walk on
the ramp. Some did.
LFW involves media
seminars, business-to-business meetings and a buyers' forum, apart
from several fashion shows.
With the spring/summer Lakme
Fashion Week having run from Tuesday to Saturday of the last week of
March, the FDCI event, now christened the Wills Lifestyle India
Fashion Week, will get underway at India's captial city New Delhi
April 5 and run till April 9.
Just consider the statistics of
the two events: 115 designers against 67 last year, 70 shows against
35, 100 models against 48, eight choreographers against four - and,
of course, two cities against only one last year.
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