Kolkata Fashion Week II Highlights

Works of over 40 fashion designers and several weavers will be showcased at the Kolkata Fashion Week (KFW) to be held here Sep 9-13, 2009. The splendid show will open with the creations of Ritu Kumar,while Manish Malhotra's designs bring down the curtains, the organisers announced. Revive the memories of 20 designers that had taken part in the inaugural edition.




'There will be 36 shows on the spring-summer collection,' said Yudhajit Dutta, managing director of Mindscapes Maestros Events and Sports Management.

The KFW-II will have 'Earth Couture' as the theme celebrating India's ethnic roots after United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation declaring 2009 as 'The International Year of Natural Fibre'. 'In the first edition (in April) we promoted weavers. We are going to do the same this time also,' said Indian cricket captain and KFW bran ambassador Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who was present at the media meet announcing the event.

The country's top models including Indrani Dasgupta, Sapna Kumar, Joey Matthews, Lakshmi Rana, Noyanika Chatterjee, Neha Kapur and Candice Pinto will be sashaying down the ramp showcasing the unique creations of the designers, he said.

Apart from giving 16 new designers a chance to showcase their creations, a nationwide model hunt from where 20 shortlisted contestants would participate at the second season of Kolkata Fashion Week will also be done.