Fashion fiesta

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NEW DELHI: The Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week (WIFW) kicked off to a glitzy and glamorous opening in Capital New Delhi as the fashion circle shifted base here to watch the second fashion fiesta within a week
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The day of reckoning arrived for the 80 or so designers and organizers who were working round the clock to make the show a whopping success by making all the right moves, on the ramp and off it, after the recently-concluded Lakme Fashion Week in Mumbai created headlines for all the wrong reasons.
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The event, which includes some top names like Ritu Beri, Niki Mahajan, Manish Arora and Rohit Bal to name a few who would showcase their creativity at the five day event.

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Pria Kataria Puri, a fashion designers mesmerized the buyers with her collection, which drew inspiration from Egypt.
"The collection that I showed today was inspired by Cleopatra. It is called Cleofunk. The inspiration was very much from Egypt but we have put it in a modern format. Since the collection is primarily for the Middle Eastern and European buyers, there was a lot of glamour and glitz," she said.
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With her target on the Middle Eastern buyers, Kataria's designs include rich hues of turquoise and colours of various gemstones, with heavy embroidery and elaborate accessories. Headgears were also added to give the show a more dramatic look.
While Kataria drew inspiration from overseas, Niki Mahajan, another fashion Designer, whose collection was also showcased on the first day, kept to the Indian roots with designs based on Rajasthani culture.
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"I just tried to portray Rajasthan in a different mould. I have tried to make it more fashionable and more glamorous. When we normally see Rajasthan, we see very bright colours and lots of cotton thread work and cotton fabrics. Here I've made the garments fashionable keeping the essence of Rajasthan. I've made it more subdued and more classic, something everybody could wear," she said.
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The five-day long show organised by the Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI) provides designers a platform to showcase their collections wooing top international buyers such as Browns, H&M and Saks Fifth Avenue as well players from the domestic market.
FDCI and Lakme branched off to hold separate fashion shows from this year, as they could not agree to the sponsorship amount for the events.

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