Wills India Fashion Week in New Delhi has successfully ended in a hotter style for spring summer. It has all the glamor and glitz that London, Paris and New York fashion weeks demand. More than 70 fashion designers from all over the country participated in the Fashion Week showcasing their collections worn by 40 models. Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week Spring-Summer Showcase is another FDCI ‘scoop’ serving as a platform to promote ‘The Business of Fashion’ and facilitate interaction between designers and buyers in India and internationally.

This is the first time since its inception six years ago that Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week is presented in an international format to cover the two seasonal market segments: Autumn-Winter and Spring-Summer. As a result, nearly 75 of India’s top designers were able to present their Spring-Summer Ready and Diffusion collections to the biggest names among Indian and international buyers, media and fashionistas. Clearly established as ‘Fashion’s Biggest Celebration’, Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week attracted buyers and media from around the world. The event has served as a launching pad for some of the participating designers, who have sold with great success through retail chains around the world such as Be, Shoppers’ Stop, Kimaya, Pantaloon, Selfridges, Browns, Maria Luisa, Tsum, Harrods and many more. .

On the opening day of the event, Arjun Rampal made a cameo appearance in Rohit Bal’s show. The first day of WLIFW featured collections by Manish Arora, Rohit Gandhi-Rahul Khanna, Jatin Kochhar and Rohit Bal. Jattin Kochhar’s collection titled ‘Swell Well’ is dedicated to the millions of moms-to-be in India and abroad. While her creations for the normal lady were basic in terms of colour, silhouettes and style, she incorporated a sprinkling of menswear and unisex swimwear, aiming to provide a complete and ready solution.

Rohit Bal went full circle towards Nacre – Mother of Pearl with a hint of brilliance. Known for his application of shimmering texture and tonal embroidery with basket-weave event technique in pleated, pleated, layered fine thread work, Rohit unleashed a line of stunning maxi coats, flared skirts, textured ruffled jackets, maxi skirts And thin, glamorous dresses, thin dresses, dresses all topped off with jackets, caftans, boleros, boleros. He was the ultimate Hollywood glam or should we say Bollywood type who turned down the ramp for womenswear.

Designers Swapan and Seema took the WLIFW ramp by storm with the Madame Butterfly Spring-Summer 2007 collection, where there was a mix of East and West in their creative palettes. A wrap shirt, knee-length pleated skirt with side slits, ivory embroidered miniskirt and pale blue jumpsuit with ruched bodice completed the western segment. Known for their luxurious sarees and bridal wear, the couple did not disappoint.

The grand finale of Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week featured Bollywood fashionista Badshah, Manish Malhotra presenting his best spring-summer 2007 creativity. Sensuality was the name of the collection and Manish had his favorite muse, Urmila Mantondkar, opening the parade with a beige dress. corset worn with a long shiny hipster skirt. From swim bikinis to bathing suits and cover-ups with ornate embroidery, Manish had them all. It was a mixture of colors that Manish worked with from beige, nude, white, red, blue, red, pink, green to combinations of all. The highlight of the show was the appearance of Bollywood superstars, Shahid Kapur in an elegant suit and Kareena Kapoor in a spectacular black fishnet dress.

The Ashish Soni Spring-Summer 2007 collection, inspired by Nokia’s Sirocco model, moved into the future with its incredible deconstructed garments and color tones of black, white and gray melange. Volume played an important role for Ashish when she opened the show with a white veil embroidered with metallic pins for a multi-ruched baby doll dress. The extra-wide silhouette not only worked well for garments, but was also visible for sleeves, boleros, and skirts. The collection thrived with garment details with rolled sleeves, random pleats, stencil-sprayed details, and shirring for skirts and boleros that gave the garments a new dimension.

Men’s clothing is Ashish’s forte, and his jackets were mere bargains in cold wool. A black satin collar tuxedo jacket, a double collar single button jacket and a black chino collar Nehru jacket are quite special. The fabrics ranged from voile, viscose, silk taffeta, jacquard, canvas to cold wool.

With WIFW 2006, FDCI is carrying out its vision of using this event as a platform for the overall development of the fashion design industry and the fashion business. As part of this objective, a series of new initiatives have been launched, which have been very well received. FDCI has been steadily expanding the scope of the event to increase participation from key stakeholders since the event began in 2000.