Overseas Overtures ; As the Year's Fourth Fashion Week Gets Ready to Walk the Ramp in Mumbai, Little-Known International Designers and Emerging Indian Talent Strike a Pose, Praying There Will Be No Strips and Rips

India Today › November 07, 2006

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Prepare to be pinned. This season's most desirable fashion accessory is definitely the nipple tape. Call it a stick-up to prevent a slip-up, but post last season's wardrobe malfunctions which grabbed more attention than moolah matters, the Lakme Fashion Week's (LFW) Spring-Summer 2007 edition, the fourth fashion week of the year, boasts of a new set of rules. While this year's show flaunts an exhaustive line-up of "emerging talent" and never-before overseas overtures, designers and choreographers have also been handed out a 28-point guideline to prevent any strips and rips. As Anil Chopra, Ravi Krishnan and their band of boys get ready to roll out the red carpet at the National Centre for Performing Arts, Mumbai on October 31, the message is clear-zip up or zap out.

Even as the clash of the couturiers continues, the Lakme-IMG combine is clawing its way back into reckoning. With many of its biggest stars like Manish Malhotra, Rocky S and Ashish Soni having jumped the ship, the splinter group is all set to pull out its latest trump card-the overseas connection. With the only big names in their arsenal being Wendell Rodricks, Sabyasachi Mukherjee, Narendra Kumar Ahmed and Priyadarshini Rao, the organisers reckon a few foreign hands would ably support their endeavour.

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Overseas Overtures ; As the Year's Fourth Fashion Week Gets Ready to Walk the Ramp in Mumbai, Little-Known International Designers and Emerging Indian Talent Strike a Pose, Praying There Will Be No Strips and Rips

From global fashion brands to international stylists-Lakme-IMG is pulling out all stops for its spring-summer bang to compensate for its whimper of a designer line-up. If Indian designers are making inroads internationally, why shouldn't the global haute monde, little-known to Indian audiences, get a taste of the Indian ramp razzma...

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