86
designers and
10 sponsors participating in Winter/Festive 2012
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Kallol Datta and
Pankaj & Nidhi - Lakmé Grand Finale Designers
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LFW continues its endeavor to celebrate
Indian weaves and crafts
Mumbai, Tuesday, July 10, 2012: This season
Lakmé Fashion Week (LFW) is all set to bring new energy to the runway
and maintain its leadership in promoting the Business of Fashion. Today,
Lakmé Fashion Week, which has placed Mumbai
on the global fashion map, announced its 86 participating designers &
10 sponsors for Winter/Festive 2012. In its thirteenth year, Lakmé
Fashion Week continues to be the leader in recognizing creative
excellence, creating opportunities for new talent and providing the most
commercially relevant platform for sponsor collaborations.
Through the years, LFW has played a pivotal role in
nurturing talent and grown in numbers, season on season. The upcoming
season brings together an exciting line up of
86 designers from across the country to showcase their
collections. As thought leaders and pioneers in promoting the business
of fashion in India, LFW has set new trends, created best practices and
taken the lead on digital for the industry to follow.
Highlights of Lakmé Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2012:
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Indian Weaves & Crafts: In a
continued endeavor to support and pay tribute to Indian textiles, LFW
this season will be taking Indian textile day to newer heights. This
season, LFW brings together industry veterans
Jaya Jaitly, Darshan Shah, Maximiliano Modesti, Rta Kapur Chishti and Wendell Rodricks for workshops, demonstrations and panel discussions while
Krishna Mehta returns as a curator for the day. All designers
participating on this day will showcase Indian weaves and crafts to
extend their support to this unique initiative and help bring the
dominance of Indian textiles and crafts to the fore. Winter/Festive
2012 will also see LFW presenting an award for the designer who best incorporates Indian weaves and craftsmanship in their collection
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Lakmé Grand Finale: The Lakmé Grand Finale for the first time will see fashion visionaries
Kallol Datta and Pankaj & Nidhi as the grand finale designers. They will interpret the ‘Lakmé Absolute’ collection for the Lakmé Grand Finale
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Gen Next Celebrates its 7th Anniversary:
The Gen Next program, which completes 7 years this season, has encouraged debutantes and nurtured some of the leading names in the industry today. Renowned Designer and Stylist
Aki Narula will continue to mentor the Gen Next program. This season,
7 extraordinary designers from across the country will showcase their debut collections
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Talent Box: Preview Shows at ‘The Source’: Celebrating its
one year anniversary, the international concept of mini preview shows at the ‘Talent Box’ will witness
18 designers participating this season
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Industry Stalwarts in Attendance:
Winter/Festive 2012 will bring industry doyen Pallavi Jaikishan
for the first time on the LFW runway alongside other industry stalwarts like Wendell Rodricks, Neeta Lulla, Anita Dongre, Krishna Mehta and Ritu Beri
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Installation Art: This season fashion week will be
“celebrating the incidental magic of monsoon” through artistic
installations across popular venues all over the city as well as onsite
at “The Source” and in and around the venue. These LFW installations
will transmit the fashion fervor and celebration
of talent across Mumbai
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INIFD Presents Lakmé Fashion Week’s Fashion Workshop Series - Edition VIII:
The 8th Edition of the Fashion Workshop Series (FWS)
will focus on the business of fashion and understanding the needs of a
buyer. The session titled
“The Business of Fashion from a Buyer’s Eye” will bring together
two key stakeholders on one platform - buyers and designers to share key
insights into running a successful business. The session will be
moderated by Sujata Assomull, Launch Editor Harpers
Bazaar India
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Live on LFW TV: LFW TV will continue
to live stream shows from LFW Winter/Festive 2012, allowing potential
buyers, sponsors and fashion enthusiasts, to gain real time access to
shows, behind the scenes action, exclusive
interviews, and parties and much more into India’s premier fashion
trade platform. Tune in on
www.lfwtv.in
Each season, LFW
focuses on meeting the ever-changing demands of the Indian fashion
industry while engaging all our stakeholders - designers, buyers,
sponsors, media and talent. Taking this prestigious event
ahead and making it even more enterprising is LFW’s strong line-up of
committed partners that have played a significant role in making this
event a grand success.
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Continuing as the Associate Sponsor for the
fifth season, is one of India’s leading Mobile Services providers - Aircel
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As LFW’s longest running partner, DHL continues its support as the Official Logistics Partner of Lakmé Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2012
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Rejoining as Co-sponsor is Official Natural Mineral Water Partner,
Himalayan
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Joining the family as Co-Sponsors are Official Car Partner Volvo Auto India
and Official Real Estate Partner Sankpal Realty
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Blender’s Pride continues to be one of our Co-Sponsors this season, along with
Forever Jewellery, the Official Jewellery Partner
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INIFD – Official Knowledge Partner and Presenting Sponsor for the Fashion Workshop Series; Kingfisher –
Official Good Times Partner continues their support and Grand Hyatt, Mumbai remains the
Official Hote
Present at the occasion, Purnima Lamba, Head-Innovations Lakmé
said, “Lakmé’s finale designers are hand-picked for being
fashion visionaries - a reflection of our commitment to forecast the
future of fashion. The beauty business works hand in hand with trends in
fashion and Lakmé Fashion Week showcases the
creative flourish of established and emerging designers. The Lakmé
grand finale is the pinnacle fashion statement of the season and we work
closely with the designers to inspire a collection for
fashion-conscious women across India. I am very excited to see
the re-interpretation of the Lakmé Absolute collection - with a fresh
creative perspective by Kallol and Pankaj-Nidhi.”
Sharing her views, Anjana Sharma, Director - Fashion, IMG Reliance said,
“I consider it an honor and my proud privilege to be able to
present yet another path-breaking season of Lakmé Fashion Week. Buoyed
by extremely positive industry feedback and overwhelming business
conducted at LFW Summer/Resort 2012, we are now resolved
to make the upcoming season even more successful with a formidable mix
of relevant designers. Our endeavor as been to demonstrate intent on
taking the fashion industry forward on the path of growth. As we bolster
our efforts to integrate India into global
fashion, we would like to thank all our partners for their support and
valued insights that make Lakmé Fashion Week what it is today and
promise to deliver growth and positively impact the ecosystem around the
fashion industry.”
Designers for Lakmé Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2012
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Lakmé Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2012 Designers
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Aartivijay Gupta
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Pallavi Jaikishan
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Aastha Bahl
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Pankaj & Nidhi
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Abhi Singh
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Payal Kapoor
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Abhishek Dutta
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Payal Khandwala
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Amrita Thakur
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Payal Singhal
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Anita Dongre
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Pernia Qureshi
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Anushka Khanna
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Pia Pauro
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Archana Kochhar
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Pooja Kapoor
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Atithi Gupta
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Pranav Mishra & Shyma Shetty
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Babita Malkani
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Prashant Chauhan
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Bhairavi Jaikishan
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Priyadarshini Rao
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Debarun Mukherjee
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Rajat Tangri
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Deepika Govind
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Ritika Bharwani
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Drashta Sarvaiya
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Ritu Beri
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Gaurang Shah
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Roma Narsinghani
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Isabelle Mittal
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Ruchika Sachdeva
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Isha Dangwar & Priyanka Rai
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Sailex Ngairangbam
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Isha Kedia & Deepak Goswami
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Sanchita Ajjampur
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Jatin Varma
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Sandhya Garg
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Kallol Datta
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Sapna Bhavnani & Sukriti Grover
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Kapil & Mmonika Arora
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Shivan & Narresh
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Karishma Shahani -Khan
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Shradha Murarka
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Ken Ferns
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Shruti Sancheti
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Khushboo Agarwal & Prem Kumar
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Shyamal & Bhumika Shodhan
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Komal Sood
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Siddharth Arya
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Krishna Mehta
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Sonaakshi Raaj
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Mayank Anand & Shraddha Nigam
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Sougat Paul
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Meera and Rohit Aggarwal
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Surya Sarkar
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Nandita Thirani
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Swapnil Shinde
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Neeta Lulla
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Swati Jain
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Nikhil Thampi
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Tanya Sharma
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Nimish Shah
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Vaishali Shadangule
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Nishka Lulla
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Wendell Rodricks
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Nupur Kanoi
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Yogesh Chaudhary
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Accessory Designers
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Felix Bendish
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Nivedita Mukherjee & Swarup
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Jyoti Kant
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Rohan Arora
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Kaabia and Sasha Grewal
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Sannam Chopra
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Mehak Gupta
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Sourabh Kant Shrivastava
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Neha Sharma
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Vasundhara Mantri
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Nitya Arora
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Gen Next Designers
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Aniket Satam
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Mehak Pruthi,Kanika Seth and Ankit Sharma
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Asa Kazingmei
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Richa Aggarwal
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Astha Sethi and Sidharth Arora
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Sneha Arora
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Kavita Sharma
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Block your dates for Lakmé Fashion Week Winter/Festive scheduled from August 3 to August 7, 2012 at Grand Hyatt, Mumbai
About Lakmé Fashion Week:
Lakmé
Fashion Week (LFW) is jointly organized by Lakmé, the No.1 cosmetics
and beauty services brand in India and IMG Reliance, the global leader
in fashion weeks and event production.
LFW has been conceived and created with a vision to “Redefine the
future of fashion and Integrate India into the global fashion world”.
LFW is organized twice every year. LFW Winter/Festive 2012 will be held
from August 3 to August 7’ 2012 at Grand Hyatt Hotel,
Mumbai. For further information log on to http://www.lakmefashionweek.co.in
About Lakmé:
Contemporary
Indian beauty expert Lakmé continuously innovates to offer a wide range
of, high performance and world class color cosmetics, skincare
products, and beauty salons.
In addition to leveraging Unilever’s worldwide expertise, Lakmé also
partners with the leading cosmetic house Milan-based Intercos Italia,
Schwann Stabilo Germany and Paris-based Fiabila. Combining international
cosmetic technology with an in-depth understanding
of the Indian woman’s needs, Lakmé also offers its consumers a
comprehensive beauty experience through its products and services at the
Lakmé Salons and Studios. For further information log on to
www.lakméindia.com
About IMG Reliance:
In
2010 Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), India's largest and most
recognized private sector company, and IMG Worldwide (IMG), the world’s
leading sports marketing and management
company, announced the formation of an equal joint venture to develop,
market and manage sports and entertainment in India. The joint venture
company, IMG Reliance Pvt. Ltd., will create and operate major sports
and entertainment assets in the country. In
its first initiative, IMG Reliance entered into an agreement with the
Basketball Federation of India (BFI) to create a new professional
basketball league and manage all aspects of the commercial rights to the
game in India. IMG Reliance signed a 15-year agreement
with the AIFF, to improve, popularize and promote the game of football
throughout India, from the grassroots to the professional level. IMG
Reliance has also created a scholarship program to identify and train
talented young Indians from sports including
- basketball, soccer and tennis–at IMG’s world-class sports training
facilities at IMG Academies in Bradenton, Florida.
About IMG Fashion:
IMG
Fashion is dedicated to facilitating a gateway to the fashion world -
from creation to consumer. We offer solutions that seamlessly connect
and associate fashion’s
key constituents and corporate brands using IMG’s global resources,
influence and expertise. Within the fashion industry IMG represents the
world’s top models, leading designers and the most influential
photographers, art directors and stylists. The division
produces the leading fashion events around the globe and represents
many of the industry’s top organizations and federations as well as
works with various local and national governments, creating regional and
international fashion platforms. For more information
on IMG and its business visit www.imgworld.com
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