DAY 2

Ms. Nandita Pal Choud-hury, who was in atten-dance, spoke to Correspon-dent, Monita Mohan, on whether the KFW would help local weavers. “Not directly,” she answered, “but indirectly definitely, because, right now, every-one who is seeing the saris is asking me ‘where can we buy them from?’. So to that extent immediately there’s going to be a kind of interest in saris which usually, with young girls coming, wouldn’t have asked for. But now they feel that it’s something even we can wear and is presentable.”

(Above) Zubair Kir-mani with showstop-per, director Imtiaz Ali. (Right) fFor Kol-kata Fashion Week, Kirmani’s collection was all about new ways and techniques to use fabrics like chanderi, Kota, chif-fon, velvet, satin silk and habotal silk.(Pictures by Monita

Mohan)

Narendra Kumar’s ‘Resurrection’ was about hope rising from the darkness (of 26/11).

On the right, showOn the right, show-stoppers Ranvijay Singh Singha and Ferena Wazier.

(Extreme right) One of Kumar’s creations.(Pictures by Ronita

Mohan)

Manoviraj Khosla and his showstop-per, Mahie Gill. Khosla’s collection was called ‘Attitude Kolkata’.(Picture by Ronita Mohan)

Minissha Lamba displays some P. C. Chandra jewellery.(Below) (Below) The

Egyptian-inspired set.(Pictures by Monita Mohan)

(Above left) Riya Sen on the ramp at the Story of Weaves - Past and For-ward. (Above) Models displaying

some of the weaves.(Pictures by Ronita Mohan)

“See, what happens is that recession is there, I agree, but certain things don’t get affected by it. Now, if you have a wedding in the family, maximum you would do is, instead of buying a sari for thirty thousand or twenty thousand, you’d buy one for ten or fifteen. So you may cut down your budget. I make clothes which are very prêt, so I have clothes for three thousand, or embroidered clothes for three thousand something; a kurti for nine hundred.three thousand something; a kurti for nine hundred. You know, people have to wear the day to day clothes which are reasonable... so I make these kinds of clothes,” Pali told our correspondent, Ronita Mohan.

DAY 3

Anjana Bhargav kicked off Day 3 with ‘Molten Brown’, a bright and colourful line which had hints of brown in it as it is the designer’s favourite colour. She is seen here with showstopper, VJ Anusha.(Picture courtesy Vaishnavi Corporate

Communications Pvt. Ltd.)

Soumitra Mondal showcased ‘Kadhai’, a celebration of India’s opulent heritage. Here, he walks the ramp with showstopper

Sagarika Ghatge.(Picture courtesy Vaishnavi Corporate

Communications Pvt. Ltd.)

Abhishek Dutta, who barely made it to his own show, presented ‘Tree of Life’, ‘a journey back from a chaotic, urbanised present to a blissful, soulful and happy past’. His showstoppers were Sonal Chau-han, and surprisingly, Rituparno Ghosh.(Picture courtesy Vaishnavi Corporate

Communications Pvt. Ltd.)

Showstopper Bipasha Basu with Mona and Pali.(Picture by Monita Mohan)

Noyonika Chatterjee in a Monapali creation. creation. Notice the lack of foot-wear

(Picture by Monita Mohan)

June Maliah in a Sanchita Jhulka creation, as part of the Weaves - Nouveau Collection.

(Pictu(Picture courtesy Vaishnavi Corpo-rate Communica-tions Pvt. Ltd.)

Kavita Bannerjee (front left) with showstopper Monami Ghosh and behind them Arjun Agarwal (right) with Shreya Pandey walk the ramp as part of the Nouveau Collection.(Picture courtesy Vaishnavi Corpo-rate Communications Pvt. Ltd.)

DAY 4

“What is special about this outfit is that it has been made by local weavers and I think the designers over there were trying to showcase that local weaves can be used to make glamorous outfits, traditional outfits, and very effective colourful outfits,” Zeenat Aman told correspondent Monita Mohan, after Story ofMohan, after Story of Weaves - Twilight Velvet. (Picture by Ronita Mohan)

“Mugdha’s so beautiful, she’s a great model, one of the best models, a fabulous actor, she’s so successful, she epitomises what a young woman should be today. She’s a wonderful person, sheperson, she’s charming, she’s graceful, everything.” - Gauri and Nainika on showstopper, Mugdha

Godse.(Pictures by Monita Mohan)

“All the girls have taken them home” - Rahul Khanna, on the shoes they de-

signed.(Picture by Ronita

Mohan)

“I think it’s beautiful, I loved their whole col-lection, and it’s a pleasure to be part of their show. It’s very feminine, very nice and neat.I love this colour. Actually it came as a surprise to me because I didn’t know which colour I was wearing. There was supposed to be pink, and blue and another colour. But I really liked this because my friends told me that it’s com-plimenting me and I think this is a very nice, ‘in’ colour,” Mugdha Godse told our Special Correspondents.Correspondents.

(Left & below) Rohit Bal creations. (Pictures by Monita Mohan)

(Right) John Abraham, the show-stopper for Rohit Bal, showcases an embroidered black sherwani.(Picture by Monita Mohan)

(Left) ‘Through Charulata’s Opera glass … the past of the future’ was the name of Dev r Nil’s show. The clothes were mostly mono-chromatic with some chromatic with some Persian indigo and scarlet red.

(Pictures by Monita Mohan)

Rohit Bal after his show, ‘Raat’.(Picture by Monita Mohan)

(Below right) Chitrangada Singh, show-stopper for Rohit Gandhi and Rahul

Khanna’s ‘Ode to Joy’.(Below) The men got a raw deal in the

otherwise bright collection.(Pictures by Ronita Mohan)