Top designers part of India’s first men’s fashion week

September 18th, 2009 KOLKATA - The second edition of Kolkata Fashion Week (KFW) may have recorded a good turnout of designers and spectators, but commerce did not pick up, with foreign buyers staying away due to swine flu and domestic ones calling for better quality control. "We have just started and we are hopeful that with time we will get more buyers - though this time we have received quite a few buyers," Pratik Sen, one of the directors of Mindscape Maestro, the organiser of the show, told IANS.

September 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - There were tall claims that domestic buyers would be around in plenty at India's first men's fashion week here, but were they all in hiding? Even those who were present at the three-day event preferred not to place orders. The Van Heusen India Mens Week (VHIMW), which concluded here Sunday, was high on ideas but low on business.

September 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Love him or hate him, you simply can't ignore him. Bollywood actor Salman Khan wooed women with his charming smile as he strode the ramp at the finale of the Van Heusen India Mens Week (VHIMW) here Sunday night.

September 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Mumbai-based designer Rocky S unveiled his collection at a three-day Men's Fashion Week here on Saturday. India's top models set the ramp on fire in the latest clothing trends setting the trend for the next season.

September 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - At a fashion show, a designer's stall provides a first look at the collection. But going by the unimaginative stalls on show at the ongoing Van Heusen India Mens Week (VHIMW), many designers do not seem to have put any thought to the stalls this time.

September 9th, 2009 KOLKATA - Based in a city little known as a fashion destination, local designers are rating two fashion weeks in a space of five months in Kolkata as a windfall of sorts. As they gear up to showcase their collection in the five-day Kolkata Fashion Week (KFW)-II beginning Wednesday, the designers feel the event will bring them good business and facilitate tie-ups with buyers.

September 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The countdown has begun for India's first Van Heusen India Men's Week (VHIMW) here Sep 11-13 that promises to be a celebrity-studded affair with Bollywood hunks and sporty cricketers scorching the ramp in the company of professional models. Though nothing is official as of now, sources have revealed that the organisers of VHIMW, the Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI), has approached Bollywood actors John Abraham, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Saif Ali Khan and Shahid Kapoor to walk the ramp for the grand finale show of designers Ashish Soni, Rohit Gandhi and Rahul Khanna of label Cue Sep 13.

September 7th, 2009 KOLKATA - Sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, star cricketer Virender Sehwag and film actors Rituparna Sengupta and Sameera Reddy will be among the showstoppers at the second Emami Kolkata Fashion Week, beginning here Wednesday. Sarod players Ayan Ali Bangash and Aman Ali Bangash, model-cum-Bollywood heroines Amrita Rao, Rimii Sen, film actor Neil Nitin Mukhesh, starlets Sophie Choudhury and Neetu Chandra, as also Brazilian model Giselle Monteiro will set the ramp ablaze during the five-day event.

September 2nd, 2009 KOLKATA - The second season of the Kolkata Fashion Week beginning Sep 9 has roped in fast-moving consumer goods major Emami Ltd as its title sponsor. Cosmetic major Max Factor has tied up with Mindscapes Maestros Events & Sports for the Emami Kolkata Fashion Week.

August 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Finally the confusion is over and the verdict is out - there would now be only one fashion week as the industry's two main groups Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI) and Fashion & Design Promotion Council (FDPC) have decided. After months of discussions and meetings, the decision was made keeping in mind the sentiments of the designers who were vouching for one fashion week.

August 13th, 2009 KOLKATA - Works of over 40 fashion designers and several weavers will be showcased at the second edition of the Kolkata Fashion Week (KFW) to be held here Sep 9-13. The fashion extravaganza will open with the creations of Ritu Kumar, while Manish Malhotra's designs bring down the curtains, the organisers announced Thursday.

July 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Designers are queueing up to participate in the first Van Heusen India Men's Week (VHIMW) here in September that will feature as many as 15 shows and 40 stalls to display fashion wear and accessories under one roof, it was announced here Wednesday. "As of now, we haven't decided on the designers, but all those who want to participate should send in their applications and the jury will decide who all will showcase and who will be given stalls to exhibit their work," event organiser Fashion Design Council of India's (FDCI) president Sunil Sethi told IANS here.

July 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Hopes of consolidation in the country's style space have all but vanished with the newly-promoted Fashion and Design Promotion Council (FDPC) Wednesday announcing the debut of its India Fashion and Design Week (IFDW) here in October. On its part, the Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI), which has staged 13 editions of what has till now been the country's premier business-business fashion event, reacted rather helplessly, saying: Let's see what happens now.

July 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Van Heusen India Mens Week - the first fashion extravaganza for men in India that will showcase the best designers in the country - will be held here Sep 11 to 13, the Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI) announced. The three-day event will have 15 shows, where designers will cover the widest range of men's fashion - menswear and accessories under one roof.

June 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - It what is being described as a step closer to unity, the newly-promoted Fashion and Design Promotion Council (FDPC) announced Tuesday that it had engaged style impresario Sumeet Nair's Prodigy Fashion to stage what for the moment is being simply called two editions of a Fashion Week. In practical terms, what this means is that Nair has merged his own breakaway Delhi Fashion Week, of which he has staged two editions, into the new entity.