Mystical Mumbai Lakme Fashion Week
Mystical Mumbai Lakme Fashion Week
(NEW YORK) Imagine if, say, at the end of Oscar de la Renta’s show, the lights dim for a beat and then suddenly loud music blares, and Julia Roberts sashays down the runway. At Lakme Fashion Week in Mumbai this celebu-moment is called the “Showstopper” and any catwalk worth its rubies concludes with a big Bollywood star hitting the “ramp” (what Indians call the runway) to screams and uproarious clapping. It’s the equivalent of a cricket star hitting a home run. Without a cinematic Showstopper, it’s like the fashion show didn’t even happen. Sure, the front row is stocked with stars seated across from editors like Bandana Tewari and Priya Tanna of Vogue India and IMG’s Fern Mallis. But the crowd wants to see their stars model for the supper. “Indians love their celebrities,” explains IMG’s Nikram Singh. “They love celebrities here more than they do in America.”
It’s the 10-year anniversary of Lakme Fashion Week. Designers and divas are out in full force. “Fashion Week has evolved,” says style journalist Vinod Nair, the group fashion editor of the Hindustan Times who is like the Cathy Horyn of Bombay. “The designers have evolved. It’s growing bigger and bigger every year.”
DAY ONE:
Anand Kabra
Titled “Kumari” for the two faces of a woman–goddess and tempest–Anand Kabra’s collection races from white asymmetrical shirts hung loose over stone colored pants to big time bling, like the silver and gold sunray striped jeweled cocktail dress worn by a model with a spray of red paint on her forehead. But Kabra’s clean, Zen-like daywear is the reason he was voted “Best Emerging Designer” at the 2008 Marie Claire Awards in India.
Lakme & IMG Celebrate 10 Years of Fashion, Presented by Samira Habitats
To toast 10 years of Lakme Fashion Week, 20 “Grand Finale” designers (the last designer each season stages a lavish, fantasy runway spectacle) present an enormous show with looks from the past, the present and the future. The thrill is seeing all 20 designers on one stage, everyone from eveningwear king Tarun Tahiliani to traditionalist Manish Malhotra to Varun Bahl, who shows a pair of Lurex bubble shorts as a “future” look.
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Bollywood /India Fashion Week
Bollywood /India Fashion Week
Bollywood actor Amrita Rao display creations by designer Manish Malhotra during the Kolkata Fashion Week in Calcutta, India, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
lmost the whole film fraternity were seen at the Lakme India Fashion Week held at Grand Hyatt, on 30th March, 2009. This fashion week made platform for many designers and also actresses to share the ramp and to make their modeling career another chance. Stars like Deepika Padukone and Katrina Kaif who were earlier into modeling before entering Bollywood got a chance to walk on the ramp all over again
Event: Bollywood stars attended Lakme Fashion Week held at Hotel Grand Hyatt, Mumbai.
Guest List: Kajol, Genelia D’Souza, Tanisha Mukherjee, Celina Jaitley, Amisha Patel, Isha Koppikar, Tusshar Kapoor, Ritesh Deshmukh, Kareena Kapoor, Sridevi, Boney Kapoor, Sushmita Sen, Preity Zinta, Gauri Khan, Raveena Tandon, Shenaz Treasurywala, Manish Malhotra, Shah Rukh Khan, Vikram Chatwal, Hrithik Roshan, Arjun Rampal, Karan Johar, Suzanne Khan Roshan
Venue: Hotel Grand Hyatt, Mumbai.
Date: 30-Mar-2009
Japan Fashion Week
Japan Fashion Week
Particpating brands in JFW(Japan Fashion Week) Tokyo for Autmn Winter was announced yesterday. Total of 42 brands (4 new) will be showing off their latest style in Tokyo, starting March 23rd through 29th. In addtion of 4 new brands, JFW will be funding five “new & emerging” brands with costs toward running the show
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Paris Fashion Week 2009
Paris Fashion Week 2009
The extraordinary Marc Jacobs brought it home again. He ended the season at Louis Vuitton with a triumphant show to end the Paris Fashion Week. He chose as inspiration (as he did in New York), the glamourous eighties. The pieces were ruffled and poufed with a slice of bling bling. A lot of shirring and ruching in print or in leather appeared on the runway. Also various forms of bubble skirts, satin leggings and wide short coats were contemporary. In total there were more than 60 outfits presented, which is very respectable when one considers that a Louis Vuitton collection by Marc Jacobs isn´t all of clothing!
Actually the show was a big flood of details and a rich accessory feast for the leather goods company. Plaited leather necklaces or belts threaded with pearls here, raced and ribboned over the knee tight leather boots there. And of course Handbags! Lets not forget handbags. Finally they are getting a little smaller, which doesn´t mean that they stop attracting attention. Marc Jacobs really outdid himself this time and created some very eye-catching new ‚girls-best-friends‘. A few of the bags are decorated with ornaments while others were flounced very nicely. I especially liked the solution with the golden bicycle chain, because this one doesn´t take itself too seriously. Don‘t forget to oil it ladies!
n one more season it may seem formulaic, but for now, Balmain is rocking the runway. With a raw mix of jacket and pant combos, bandage dresses, and slashed gowns, this collection is party and afterparty ready. Remember Balmain’s sultry Fall season? With its highly coveted (and already worn by Carine Roitfeld and daughter) party dresses and wild cut-outs? They’re back, and they’re better than ever. But Christophe Decarnin is not just exposed skin and energetic frills — he took his stab at the sharp shoulder. It’s too conical for my taste, but it makes for some stunning jackets.
Hilary Alexander reviews the Valentino spring/summer 2010 collection from Paris Fashion Week.
“Back to nature,” Lagerfeld said backstage, before the show, citing Marie Antoinette in her shepherdess phase, and a love of the countryside as key references.
But this was no costume pageant. There were Chanel cardigan suits aplenty, in shades of wheat, corn and poppy-red, with cotton jeans, calico knickerbockers, or a new side-split, short skirt. The models wore little crowns and stalks of wheat in their tousled hair, and high-heeled, wooden clogs – Lagerfeld’s answer to the platform.
On the stage was a flower-garlanded, wooden two-storey barn, and a giant haystack, with concealed “doors”, from which the models emerged. Read more
London Fashion Week 2009
London Fashion Week 2009
London Fashion Week 2009: is a biannual trade show, where each season designers unveil their collections to a professional audience of press and buyers who visit the capital from the UK and across the globe….Gideon attended London Fashion Week, where he was invited to see the evening catwalk show of designer Jenny Packham.
Location:
Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road
South Kensington
London SW7 5BD
With a multitude of media from the likes of Elle, Pride, Vogue and She Caribbean magazines gracing her front row seats, this London born designer has definitely found her calling and is heading in the right direction.
In this economy where fashion is still first and fore-most, designer Georgette Williams brings a fresh outtake to the industry by finding the middle-point and most importantly, wearable points, that lie between the outrageous fashion decisions that seemed to grace the London catwalks this season.
Georgie W. Couture’s Spring-Summer 2010 Collection ‘The Girl Can’t Help It’ was her debut solo show at London Fashion Week’s 25th anniversary, the perfect choice for this young label and a truly historical moment.
The Girl Can’t Help It’ is a collection inspired by the 40s/50s vixen. With an emphasis on the silhouettes, it is a celebration of the female form. Confidently feminine, it pays homage to a time when women rose to the challenge and fulfilled the roles of men and still maintained elegance and grace. With hard- wearing twills, delicate cottons and elegant satins Each garment, encompasses the spirit of a strong modern woman, who can do it all effortlessly and still look fabulous. Read more
