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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Delhi Fashion Week 2009
Delhi Fashion Week 2009
India’s luxurious and cutting edge fashion platform, the Delhi Fashion Week is programmed to be held from October 14 to 19 at Emporio, in Delhi. The fashion week ensures to project the dynamic and confident face of Indian design talent which has the potential to match and possibly surpass the best international standards. The list of designers who are to showcase consists of an eclectic mix of top notch and emerging young designers, whose creativity is unbounded.
The Delhi Fashion Week is all geared up to set new benchmarks for the Indian fashion industry creating greater opportunities for designers. The mainstay of the event is to bring the most creative talent to the forefront and make Delhi an important fashion destination.
Delhi Fashion Week promises to present a mix of renowned and emerging fashion talent in the country. Prominent buyers from all over the globe are expected to arrive as they have major interest in the Indian designers as well as the Indian fashion trends.
Make up, integral part of fashion parade or shoot, and currently at DFW duo makeup artist Jojo and Yatan Ahluwalia are painting faces gracefully with pre-preparation of their complicated job. Both the makeup artists have decided to give full justice to the designer’s collection. They are equipped with 18 assistants and they are doing their coloring job within a 3 hours before the show. MAC is the brand through which they are creating perfect shades suitable for the collection.
It is wrongly assumed that makeup artist start their brushes on the very day of event however, the fact is not so. In case of fashion weeks the makeup artist keep meeting designers to get adiquate knowledge about their collection. Any makeup artist requires more than a month to think and machinate the looks. There they discuss several things related to ramp as well like colors, lights and many more so on that basis they visualize the look of the model on the ramp. One of the duo said “some designers prefer a perticular color but they wanted us to use the different shae of the same color”.
The cosmetics used by such professional are so advanced that makeup for stage absorbs the light and gives a more dramatic look on the ramp. Looking from the designer’s angel they don’t only deal with garments their area of concern includes make up and the model as model is dominant and influential factor contributing their designs and makeup enhances the creation.
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