| Lakme
India Fashion Week 2002 |
 The
Lakme India Fashion Week was a great success which featured
basically the Prêt-a-Porter
(ready-to-wear) and iffusion (a line between ready-to-wear
and couture/bridal) collections of 53 designers whose
creations were brought into life by 48 leading Indian
models. The arresting and wonderful creations of the
designers need the best of modeling talent to present
them which has culminated into a success story at the
Lakme India Fashion week 2002. Fashion industry, with
a spectacular gala to launch the JJ Valaya Fall / Winter
2002-03 Couture collection (September 8, 2002 at the
Le Meridien, Delhi and on September 14 at the Taj, Mumbai).
In its third consecutive year,
the Lakme India Fashion Week 2002 was held from August
2nd-8th, 2002 at the Taj Palace Convention Centre in
New Delhi. The collections were showcased through seven
days of frenzied solo, two-designer or three-designer
acts. A schedule of 35 shows were interspersed with
interactive seminars and workshops on the 'Business
of Fashion', make-up, style trends, hair, grooming and
other fashion related topics. With five shows daily
- at 1 p.m., 3 p.m., 5 p.m., 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. - the
seven-day event culminated in the Lakme Grand Finale.
Top designers like JJ Valaya, Ritu Kumar, Rocky S, Aaliya
& Arshiya Fakih, Abhishek Gupta, Anamika Khanna, Anita
Dongre, Anjana Bhargav, Anju Modi, Anshu Arora Sen,
Jattinn Kochhar, Manish Arora, Manju & Bobby Grover,
Meera & Muzaffar Ali, Niki Mahajan, Payal Jain, Poonam
Bhagat, Priyadarshini Rao, Ranna Gill, Rina Dhaka, Rohit
Bal, Sabyasachi Mukherjee, Suneet Varma and others participated
in the Fashion Week.
While the models participating at the fashion week were
Sheetal Mallar, Aditi Gowitrikar, Jesse Randhawa, Viveka
Babajee, Nethra Raghuraman, Tapur Chaterjee, Diandra
Soares, Shivani Kapoor, Bhawna Sharma, Sampada Inamdar,
Tinu Verghese, Michelle Innes, Ayesha Prem, Poonam Nath,
Shruti Sharma, Udita Gosawami, Fleur Xavier, Nina Manuel,
Vidisha Pavate, Yana Gupta, Tupur Chaterjee, Kiran Rao,
Shonali Rosario, Joey Matthews, Sapna Kumar, Indrani
Dasgupta, Laxmi Rana, Vandana Saras, Tina Chatwal, Neha
Dhupia, Shrishti, Bhavna Singh, Rahul Dev, Inder Mohan,
Zulfi Sayeed, Rajiv Singh, Tarun Arora, Ajay Balhara,
Rajat Raina, Aditya Bal, Vijay Balhara, Praveen Sirohi,
Niketan Madhok, Shawar Ali, Vishal Singh, Rajat Chanderlal,
David Gaden and Rahul Bhasin..
"The modelling talent at this year's mega fashion showing,"
said FDCI Executive Director, Vinod Kaul, "matches the
mix of the designers' showing. Many are well-known names
and for others it's a launching pad towards fame. However,
both are equally professional and gifted, and we at
FDCI would like to acknowledge the hard work they will
put into the week ahead and bring attention to our designers
creations."
Introduction: Top-notch professionals in the fashion
industry came together in December 1998 to form the
Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI), with the key
objective of fostering the growth of the entire fashion
industry in India and internationally. Under the aegis
of the Textile Ministry and in close working relationship
with institutions like NIFT, FDCI provides a platform
for designers, encourages investments and professional
input in design labels. It helps bolster the growth
of the designer ready-to-wear lines by developing the
entire fashion supply chain through backward linkages
with suppliers, mills and others, as well as forward
linkages with the retail and distribution networks.
The Council's primary objective is to provide a cohesive
platform for Indian designers and act as the mouthpiece
of the industry at all relevant platforms, in a bid
to promote Indian fashion-both at home and abroad. Its
support for according corporate status to the fashion
business in India is paralleled by its efforts to consolidate
the Indian fashion industry's position in the global
marketplace.
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