LFW Winter/Festive scores high with Fashion Fraternity




Lakme Fashion Week, India’s premier Fashion Event and Trade event, continues to leave its mark in its fourteenth season, enthralling audiences and buyers globally with its eminent fashion designer collections showcasing outstanding creativity. As a pioneer and leader in providing a powerful trade platform to designers, Lakmé Fashion Week announced new initiatives that propel designers and buyers to engage in business conversations and plan commerce. 


This season, as a groundbreaking initiative, IMG Reliance, HUL and the AEPC: Apparel Export Promotion Council India signed a letter of intent to form a partnership that will encourage fashion designers to explore scale and create links to mass production, state-of-art manufacturing facilities and technological support mechanisms. This landmark meet saw senior designers such as Sabyasachi Mukherjee, Wendell Rodricks, Narendra Kumar, Krsna Mehta along with over 60 designers come together to support this initiative for the Indian Fashion Industry. 

‘The Source’, the business hub at Lakmé Fashion Week, had over a 100 stalls for buyers to view designer collections and goods. Also this season, saw over 30 designers tying up with online retail partner, Fashion & You. Exhibiting designers had the opportunity to showcase their designs in a second preview show area located directly in ‘The Source’ area at Talent Box: Preview shows. In line with international fashion weeks, and for the first time in India and LFW history, this initiative was a huge success. Thus, Lakmé Fashion Week showed great benefit for both domestic and international buyers and provided them a single platform to purchase from all exhibiting designers.

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Kallol presents very creative collection for Berling Show @ LFW




Short listed by the Lakme Fashion Week Advisory board, Kallol Datta 1955 presented his collections for the Berlin Calling show at Lakmé fashion Week Winter/Festive 2011. 

This initiative supported by IMG Reliance and IMG Fashion teams will see Indian representation at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week – Berlin - Autumn Winter 2012 in January. The platform will not only support the selected designer in presenting the runway show but will also ensure that the opportunity is leveraged effectively in representing India internationally.

Working his characteristic design sensibilities into his garments, Kallol Datta’s Winter/Festive 2011 collection for Lakmé Fashion Week was an extension of his Fall/Winter 2011-12 line done earlier. Choosing some unusual fabrics for the season, Kallol opted for wool, wool blends, silk, crepes, satins, nets, voiles, kora silks, gauze and calico in a dual colour palette of black and white with hints of blue and pink. 

Known for his quirky but very striking totally identifiable prints, Kallol introduced the “Namesake” series of motifs to add that distinct look to his collection. 

The designer’s choice of embellishments has always been eye-catching; so this season Kallol used braids and tassels in natural and artificial fibres for impressive 3D construction and added on foil printing and gypsum coating.

Presenting a crisp tightly edited show of 16 garments, Kallol displayed three series namely - Conception, Namesake and Paper Plane with the very creative construction that he is known for. 

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DIGJAM Vibrant Fashion Week Season II from Feb 14-16


AHMEDABAD will host Vibrant Fashion Week from February 14-16 in an attempt to launch the city on the country's fashion map. 


Modelled on the lines of Lakme Fashion Week and India Fashion Week, the event will see participation from 20 designers from Mumbai. Efforts will be made to present the Kutchi art work to fashion designers and fashion enthusiasts. 


Fashion has history and Culture and civilization attached to it, If we talk about fashion and Gujarat we need to go little in past, with the textile industry of the city, in the 19th century, when the city and the industry was established under the British Raj. Textile mills employed thousands of people from across the state, and the cotton garments manufactured were exported across the world. The prosperity of the industry was the mainstay of the city's economy, and Ahmedabad was accordingly termed the “Manchester of the East."


In the 19th century, the textile and garments industry received strong capital investment. On 30 May 1861 Ranchhodlal Chhotalal founded the first Indian textile mill, the Ahmedabad Spinning and Weaving Company Limited. This was followed by the establishment of a series of Technical Textile & Textile mills such as the Calico Mills, Bagicha Mills and Arvind Mills. By 1905 there were about 33 textile mills in the city. The textile industry further expanded rapidly during the First World War, and benefited from the influence of Mahatma Gandhi's Swadeshi movement, in a way Mahatma Gandhi played a major role in the Indian textile industry, we can say fashion is a retail face of the textile industry. 
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No shine look & My Village hit Lakme ramp

Kallol Datta and Rimzim Dadu gave interesting fashion directions for S/S 2010 at Lakme Fashion Week.

Using natural fabrics like kora, cotton, mul, voile, net and crepe, Kallol Datta moved away from conventional fashion as usual and went for the No shine look with his signature prints for Spring/Summer 2010 at Lakme Fashion Week.

Last season it was the stark mannequin motif that appeared on his garments and as jewellery. This time his prints were dragonflies, bees and Him and Her logo prints which appeared for the “Avant Garde F’ck” collection in geometric forms under his label Kallol Datta 1955. The colours were limited to ecru, pink, jade, black and beige but it was the construction of the garments that was characteristic of the designer. Drapes appeared at the hem and at the back, dual tones were used for front wrap dresses and the silhouette was egg shaped with fullness at the midriff graduating down or in front.

The 20 pieces was a thinking person’s collection that was starkly simple and elegant, but with a lot of interesting construction elements that Kallol is famous for. It is difficult to single out any of the outfits, since each one will be a great seller with people who want stylish interesting conversation pieces. But the lopsided dress with drapes on the side, the junta wrap overlay, the swinging dress and the winged hem on one side, or the net over solid jade, were part of a great collection.

Although Kallol Datta has followed his silhouette lines of last season, there is a bit of reinvention he added, which will make this collection also a hit with the young trendy dressers for Spring/Summer 2010.





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Deepika Pandukone crackles on ramp for Gauri & Nainika

Cascades of long drapes descended from the ceiling, a giant visual of the Grey Goose Journeys around the world set the stage for one of the most glamorous and elegant retro haute couture shows of the day.




 Black, white and red - the eternal colour story was the only selection by designers, Gauri and Nainika for their
Spring/Summer 2010 collection presented by Grey Goose at Lakme Fashion week. With delicate vintage touches for their garments, which the duo is famous for, they gave women’s wear that aura of sophistication and style.

Moving away a little from their trademark gowns, the pair designed shorter hemlines for part of the show with interesting detailing on the garments.Roses bloomed on most of the amazingly tailored and finished creations in chiffon, satin and organza.

For the opening, the sultry voice Geane, the renowned jazz singer, crooned as nine fiery red garments inspired by La Beaute Rouge the new martini for Grey Goose was a dramatic section that made it almost show stopping in its beauty.But it was only the start of an incredible journey of exquisite beauty as the black and white creations glided down the ramp. Giant bows and roses, perfectly moulded gowns and dresses and the amazing designs by these talented creative sisters have won them the title of Top Couturiers for Red Carpet ensembles.





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