AIFW Fall-Winter 2018: Trends
My piece in New Indian Express/ Sunday Standard on Trends emerging out of Amazon India Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2018: http://epaper.thesundaystandard.com/m/1609722/The-Sunday-Standard-Delhi/08-04-2018#issue/2/1
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FDCI & Wills Lifestyle Association Comes To An END
Curtains are drawn on Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI) and Wills Lifestyle’s (a division of ITC) long association. The India Fashion Week hosted bi-annually by FDCI was sponsored by Wills Lifestyle for season after season, so-much-so that the acronym WIFW (Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week) became a habit with us. Post the introductory seasons […]
Sibling Designer-Duo Emulate Anjalee-Arjun Kapoor’s Business Model
Anjalee and Arjun Kapoor today have established a fashion business empire. They may have flagship stores in Delhi, Mumbai and Dubai but they never earned the respect of the design fraternity. The Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI) has rejected their membership application. Why??? Well Anjalee and Arjun Kapoor’s reputation of copying designs of other […]
Ex Wills Lifestyle Guy Taking over Anjana Sharma’s Role @ IMG Reliance
Guess it is time to get the news out! The person replacing Anjana Sharma (who was fired recently) at IMG Reliance comes in from Wills Lifestyle – the Apparel business division of ITC. He was with Wills Lifestyle since its inception and was part of the core team from Wills Lifestyle at the bi-annual Wills […]
Fiama Di Wills Show Goes To Ranna Gill for WIFW S/S 2013
Designer Ranna Gill who is showing at the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2013 after a hiatus of couple of season has grabbed the Sponsored slot – the Fiama Di Wills Show. Ritu Kumar is the Wills Lifestyle Grand Finale designer. As per FDCI, both the selections have been made by Wills Lifestyle independently. […]
Now AMR Joins Hands With Vijay Singh for An Alternative Couture Week in Delhi
There seems to be no end to fashion politics and no dearth of designers falling prey to people attempting at fracturing the fashion fraternity. Remember Vijay Singh – the man who had formed FDPC and had ambitious plans to disintegrate FDCI – is still at his games. Not satisfied with the lack-lustre Sahara India Bridal […]
Should Designers Comprise The Jury That Selects Designers?
Things are not going right in Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI) just before the Spring/Summer 2013 Edition of Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week (WIFW) scheduled from 6th October 2012 to 10th October 2012. For the first time ever there are seven designers – a mix of top, medium and small designers – that comprises […]
Men With Dubious Agendas @ Delhi Couture Week
I believe in one fashion body for the welfare of the fashion fraternity in India. But then there are many who disagree with me and believe in ‘more the merrier’. Everybody has the right to their esteemed opinion. But I think everyone will agree that it is absolutely unethical for an alternative fashion body to […]
Overnight the ‘Council’ Turns In To A ‘Company’
In my previous post I wrote about a Real Estate Company – AMR Group creating a new Fashion Council – India Fashion Council (IFC) in alliance with few media personalities, a former FDCI Executive and some designers. You can read the previous post here: http://wp.me/p1C8a1-10L On the 26th of June the Board of Fashion Designers […]
Another “Fashion Council” Raises Its Ugly Head
The number of Fashion Weeks and Fashion Bodies India have is greater than the sum total of Fashion Weeks held in London, Milan, New York and Paris. Besides the primary two – the India Fashion Week organised by Fashion Designers Council of India (FDCI) and Lakme Fashion Week organised by Reliance-IMG the other Fashion Weeks […]