With the city witnessing two fashion weeks within the span of eight days, the national Capital is certainly in vogue. So while the Delhi Fashion Week spearheaded by Sumeet Nair kickstarted on Tuesday, Fashion Design Council of India’s (FDCI) Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week opens just a day later on Wednesday.

“I don’t think it makes sense to host a new event while one is going on, just for business benefits,” says fashion designer Rohit Gandhi.”You don’t become a fashion destination by being cautious, by thinking of the consequences,” Sumeet Nair says, however.And both camps claim to have a steady inflow of sponsors and buyers inspite of the bleak world economic scenario.

Day Three of Lakme Fashion Week saw a unique initiative from the organisers as they dedicated this day to menswear. Narendra Kumar, Lacoanet Hemant, Raghavendra Rathore and Arjun Khanna showcased their menswear line, though some took care to include the babe factor as well.

Next year will see a fashion week dedicated to men, a move that has all the designers giving it a thumbs up.Fashion designer Arjun Khanna says, “I think it’s a start to a serious deal. There is so much happening when it comes to menswear and this is only the beginning. I mean the FDCI has also announced a fashion week for men. It’s a three-day fashion deal for men.”

Source: Fashion Trail

I was in New York City during New York Fashion Week last February. The Fall/Winter 2008 collections were being unveiled and a friend of mine who works in the fashion industry attended the Carolina Herrera show. When I met up with him, he couldn’t stop raving about the magnificent hats that adorned the models’ heads and the long, elegant feathers that swayed rhythmically as the models made their way down the catwalk.

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