Chiconomical

Fashion shows are grand performances, they have a story told by the clothes, the models enact this story, and all runway's a stage. This is something that Shantanu and Nikhil proved with their impeccably dressed and designed performance. The models coming on to the runway from the hall entrances was a great way to convey the theme, The Tourist. There were clocks telling time for some of the major cities of the world which I felt was a nice little touch. The collection, well, lets just say, people at the airport terminals never looked this good.

Stamps. A universal log of every country's history. Stamps. A tiny piece of paper that lets you send letters to exotic faraway locations. Stamps. A very cool new print to wear! A combination of stamps and pictures of out country's freedom fighters is was marked Aarti Vijaygupta's collection. I have to say, I'm impressed with how cool our netas looked in print.

Manish Malhotra! He's one of the few Indian designers who is famous outside India almost as much as in India. I remember the conversation I had with my sister about the fashion week where she said the only Indian fashion name she's familiar with is Manish Malhotra(she lives in the UK so this is relevant). And even that is thanks to Bollywood movies in a very large part.
So how was my experience at the show? The theme was 100 years of Indian cinema, and I have to say, overall the show did deliver. Right from the opening with Karan Johar (an Indian director) joined by three more Indian directors... Dibakar Banerjee, Anurag Kashyap and Zoya Akhtar. Personally, from what I observed, Karan Johar seems to be exactly like the image that people have of him, which is a very good thing if you ask me!
The highlight for me though, was Asha Bhonsale walking the ramp. She's got oomph, style and is more classy than any other celebrity present there that night! The other celebrities who were present were Priyanka Chopra, Hema Malini, Varun Dhawan and Siddharth Malhotra(or as I keep calling them, those two guys from Student of the Year coz I can't ever match their names to faces!), Kajol, Karishma Kapoor...oh such a long list!
Now I could go on and on about every little thing I observed, but then pictures speak a thousand words, so why do all the talking when they can do it for me!