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Mumbai, With top notch Bollywood celebrities sashaying down the ramp or making for a dazzling audience, the second edition of the India Couture Week was high on glamour and less on couture.

Despite the inaugural show by designer duo Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla – where the Bachchan family was expected to walk the ramp – being cancelled, the HDIL-ICW week that began Oct 11 and concluded Friday was still a star studded affair.

All the Khans of Bollywood – Aamir Khan, Salman Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Arbaaz Khan, Sohail Khan, Zaayed Khan and Imran Khan – sashayed down the ramp. Giving them company were other Bollywood newsmakers Ajay Devgan, Sanjay Dutt, Govinda, Akshay Kumar, Ranbir Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Kareena Kapoor, Sridevi, Gauri Khan and Shruti Hasan.

Sitting in front rows and cheering for their friends were Bollywood stars Preity Zinta, Kajol, Dia Mirza, Amisha Patel, Priyanka Chopra, Deepika Padukone, Farhan Akhtar, Malaika Arora Khan, Amrita Arora, Dino Morea, Farah Khan, Uday Chopra, Anupam Kher, Rishi and Neetu Kapoor among others.

The Bollywood presence definitely took attention away from the designers and their clothes.

This was clearly indicated when a journalist pointed out at one particular show that made an exception: “There are no celebrities walking the ramp or sitting in the front row at all. Huge disappointment!”

Fashion critic Sathya Saran said: “When stars become the highlight of the show, designs take a backstage and the focus gets shifted to celebrities and not on clothes. We should get rid of this star struck frenzy, otherwise it’s the designers’ loss.”

The second edition of the HDIL-ICW was by all means better than its first edition in terms of arrangement and decor. With couturiers like Pallavi Jaikishen, Manish Malhotra, Varun Bahl, Manav Gangwani, Suneet Varma and Monisha Bajaj participating in it, one couldn’t have asked for a better line-up. There too, filmmaker Karan Johar made his presence felt.

Lotus-like cutouts hanging from the ceiling and three lounges went well with the ambience. The only drawback was the lack of waiting area.

The lounges took up most of the space leading to a cramped waiting area. So there were crowds before the start and after the end of every show, resulting in a lot of pushing and shoving.

Also, one thing universal to fashion shows in India – which was true at this event too – is that they start fashionably late.

Despite having two shows every day and one main show area (MSA) being allocated to each designer 24 hours prior to the show, giving enough time to deck up the ramp according to his or her theme, the shows always started late.

Unlike the previous year when designers had given special emphasis to ramp decor, this time except Suneet Varma, all others failed to impress with their catwalk creativity.

In terms of clothes, while most designers stuck to heavy bridal wear as their couture collection, designer Monisha Jaising came up with a fresh collection of bustier dresses and fishnet gowns for her couture line.

Also, this was the first time HDIL-ICW had a couture jewellery show by designers Farah Khan, Maheep Kapoor and Queenie Dhody.

“Jewellery is an important aspect of couture wear. One can’t ignore the importance of high-end jewellery. This show gave everyone an idea of what high-end jewellery is all about,” said Sunil Sethi, president of the Fashion Design Council of India, which organised the event.

HDIL-ICW had a lot of bling and high-end couture. but what really dazzled in the end was star power.

Shahrukh Khan Swings On Ramp With Manish Malhotra

Can the fashion lovers of Mumbai ask for anything more than Shahrukh ‘King’ Khan on the ramp confidently strutting in an exclusively designed Manish Malhotra creation and a unique arm sling for the ‘royal’ elbow which is healing.

The finale entry by super star Shahrukh Khan as he strode down the ramp for the Manish Malhotra show for Fall/Winter 2009 at Lakme Fashion Week brought the audience on their feet begging for more of ‘King’ Khan and his impromptu thank you speech interspersed with touches of humour that only Shahrukh Khan is capable of in his great inimitable style.

The celebrity lineup in the audience was awesome with Hritikh and Suzzane Roshan, Kareena Kapoor, Kajol, Arjun and Mehr Rampal, Boney and Sreedevi, Malliaka Arora Khan and Arbaaz Khan, Priety Zinta and Tusshar Kapur cheering their friend Shahrukh Khan all the way.

One can always expect the unusual whenever Manish presents a show and this time the designer worked around the colours of the Kolkatta Knight Riders theme of black and gold and presented a stunning sports inspired evening wear line. Besides the base colour story of the Knight Riders, Manish added on touches of deep red, blue and green and wove them into garments that will work wonderfully after dark.

The women’s wear had fabulous black shaded lehengas with dazzling gold gotta and zari borders and teamed with hooded gold cholies all daringly cut. The western wear line had draped pants, gold jumpsuits, micro shorts with accessories like gold cricket pads and matching helmets and gold sneakers.




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