Lakmé Fashion Week Ushers New Talent and Initiatives at Winter/Festive 2012

  Lakmé Fashion Week Ushers New Talent and Initiatives at Winter/Festive 2012

 

• 86 designers and 10 sponsors participating in Winter/Festive 2012
• Kallol Datta and Pankaj & Nidhi - Lakmé Grand Finale Designers
• LFW continues its endeavor to celebrate Indian weaves and crafts

  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:
¡   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
¡   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
¡   Gen Next Celebrates its 7^th 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
¡   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 participatingthis season.
and MORE.
Designers for Lakmé Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2012

Lakmé Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2012 Designers

Aartivijay Gupta Pallavi Jaikishan

Aastha Bahl Pankaj & Nidhi

Abhi Singh Payal Kapoor

Abhishek Dutta Payal Khandwala

Amrita Thakur Payal Singhal

Anita Dongre Pernia Qureshi

Anushka Khanna Pia Pauro

Archana Kochhar Pooja Kapoor

Atithi Gupta Pranav Mishra & Shyma Shetty

Babita Malkani Prashant Chauhan

Bhairavi Jaikishan Priyadarshini Rao

Debarun Mukherjee Rajat Tangri

Deepika Govind Ritika Bharwani

Drashta Sarvaiya Ritu Beri

Gaurang Shah Roma Narsinghani

Isabelle Mittal Ruchika Sachdeva

Isha Dangwar & Priyanka Rai Sailex Ngairangbam

Isha Kedia & Deepak Goswami Sanchita Ajjampur

Jatin Varma Sandhya Garg

Kallol Datta Sapna Bhavnani & Sukriti Grover

Kapil & Mmonika Arora Shivan & Narresh

Karishma Shahani -Khan Shradha Murarka

Ken Ferns Shruti  Sancheti

Khushboo Agarwal & Prem Kumar Shyamal & Bhumika Shodhan

Komal Sood Siddharth Arya

Krishna Mehta Sonaakshi Raaj

Mayank Anand & Shraddha Nigam Sougat Paul

Meera and Rohit Aggarwal Surya Sarkar

Nandita Thirani Swapnil Shinde

Neeta Lulla Swati Jain

Nikhil Thampi Tanya Sharma

 

Nimish Shah Vaishali Shadangule

Nishka Lulla Wendell Rodricks

Nupur Kanoi Yogesh Chaudhary

Accessory Designers

Felix Bendish Nivedita Mukherjee & Swarup

Jyoti Kant Rohan Arora

Kaabia and Sasha Grewal Sannam Chopra

Mehak Gupta Sourabh Kant Shrivastava

Neha Sharma Vasundhara Mantri 

Nitya Arora

Gen Next Designers

Aniket Satam Mehak Pruthi,Kanika Seth and Ankit Sharma

Asa Kazingmei Richa Aggarwal

Astha Sethi and Sidharth Arora Sneha Arora

Kavita Sharma

Block your dates for Lakmé Fashion Week Winter/Festive scheduled from August 3 to August 7, 2012 at Grand Hyatt, Mumbai
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