Excitement piling up as India Fashion Week gets closer
MIL/Agencies, Apr 4, 2006.
India is well known for their special interest in the fashion shows, the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week, ahead of its April 5 opening, with best designers engaged in the foremost "fittings". This time, there shall be no flaws of any kind, the organizers claim.
Models are hopeful that there shall be no wardrobe defect and an army of support personnel readying the twin runways and the trade areas for the five-day event.
"Take my word for it, it's going to be a grand event," says Rathi Vinay Jha, director general of the Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI) that is organizing the event.
The designers are certainly working on it and would like to present the best and most befitting. An FDCI official said, "Fittings are extremely important because they match clothes to the models."
"For big shows like this, the designers and the models don't always work together from the start and it thus becomes important for both to bring the best possible results by ensuring that there are no glitches of any kind, " the official added as per Agency report.
The "fittings" also help to prevent wardrobe malfunctions of the kind that happened on successive days during the ongoing Lakme Fashion Week in Mumbai as the costumes literally fell off the models as they were sashaying down the runway.
But then, such bloopers are part of the game and models have to learn to deal with them, Delhi's Neha Kapur said.
"If it happens on the runway, then you cannot blame the designers or the models. It's a hazard that one has to live with," she contended.
"It could happen because of a sudden tear or a button that gets lost but that's only because of the hurry with which you change your ensembles," Kapur added. There shall be two important aspects of the show, while most of the designers are likely to parade their collections on two ramps - a new innovation in the format - others shall, probably, display their garments and accessories in a specially designated trade stall area as per IANS.
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