Now, as the latest edition of Lakme Fashion Week is around the corner, the buzz is at all time high as designers and models are gearing up for the event.

With models acting as moving mannequins, designers cribbing for a perfect tuck and ushers lost in their counts, the scene at fittings sessions of designers Neeta Lulla, Krishna Mehta and Priyadarshini Rao cut a chaotic picture.

From the heap of shoes to beautiful garments laden with crystals, the fittings gave a brief look into what is going to surface this fashion week.

With the hysterical fashion week season going on in full whirls and swirls, the sleepless nights and fashion overdose come handy. From fittings to runway catwalk, the journey gets quite taxing. And fittings session for upcoming Lakme Fashion Week Summer/Resort 2012 in Mumbai was no different.

From the sartorial niceties to adjustment of drawstrings, the fittings witnessed designers measuring their every fall, stitch and drape whereas models their diet charts and relaxation mantras. Meanwhile, FashionFad went behind the scene and captured our diligent models and designers like Rocky S, Anita Dongre, Aki Narula, Nina Manuel, Candice Pinto and Sucheta Sharma amongst others.

This time of the year, when nip in the air comes with a happy tinge, euphoria flew off the Chivas Studio in New Delhi this weekend, with unstinted art on stall, display and move.

With a slew of creative geniuses, stunning the city and its art enthusiasts, fashionfad captured the men-on-work, rehearsing for a Fashion Broadway, ‘Love and all that jazz’, being directed by Rohan Sippy and styled by Abraham & Thakore.

Unedited theatrics being performed by singing, contemplating and performing men with stare worthy arabesques almost set the space on fire, only to be offset by sighs galore.

If the Bard had to define the backstage at a fashion week, he might have called it a ‘beautiful jungle’. Felines fearlessly prowling around decked up in illusions. The usual chaos at backstage remained all intact at the recently concluded Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week Spring Summer 2012 edition.

With a show per hour, models and Mac’s make up crew let their horses free, and kept running around creating different themes during all 5 days. With fluctuating styles and patterns of brows, hair and lips, the look kept changing in a jiffy. Moreover, breaking heels and slipping garments, thus ensuing pouts and purses formed an eventful backstage.

Lakme Fashion Week Winter / Festive 2011 fittings saw loads of fun et frolic as la designers were seen running around avec their garments et models all patiently changing in their newest avatar. Sourendra Kumar Das visits Grand Hyatt over la weekends et brings forth la ‘behind the scene’ sagas…

The first day of fittings saw designers like Nari, Archana Kochhar, Amalraj, Sanjay Hingu, Nachi, Lil Shilpa, et Swapnil. Nari had voguish men’s wear, Kochhar’s collection had lots of fun element in it avec dominance of orange, grey, black et aime, Nachi’s collecte is inspired by colours of dawn et dusk, while Shilpa is encouraged by the speed of sound.

The second day of fittings had designers like Abhi Singh, Purvi Doshi, Babita Malkani, Jatin Varma, Payal Singhal, Payal K, Parvesh Jai, Drashta, Rehane, Neeta Lulla, Nandita, Preeti Kapoor et Anita Dongre. Varma had exquisite gowns s’adapter for red carpets, Payal had heavy ethnic bridal wear, Nandita avait a fusion of ethnic & western wear, while Neeta had exquisite red & golden lehengas.

The third day of fittings saw designers comme Harangad, VJ Balhara, Paromita & Shradha, Debarun & Shyamal, Juilee, Pallavi & Vaishali, Rina Dhaka, Aneeth & Kallol, Athithi, Sabha & Saugat et a promising Gen Next designers. Balhara had dazzling gowns, Vaishali’s prominence in using organic fabric stood out, et the Gen Next had promising young talents.

In the GenNext category, designer duo Theresa James et Roger Prince has merged Native American et Navajo motifs, while Sidharta Aryan’s collection serves as a bridge between Indian et Western cultures to adapt avec evolving world of Indian fashion avec a very gothic stroke. Md Javed’s cuts are East inspired, elongated, et a lots of play avec textures while Farah Sanjana’s line is fit for free-spirited women.

The forth day saw fittings by designers comme Digvijay, Vivek Kumar, Wendell, Raman, Ruchita et Shivaji, Anna & Pamela, Arjun Agarwal et Rohit Bal. Wendell’s collection is an amalgamation of pastel shades et fuchsia complementing la innovative shapes et designs made of natural et organic materials while Kolkata based designer Arjun Agarwal has an amalgamation of pastel shades et futchsia et designs made of natural et organic materials while Bal has drawn on history, fantasy et folklore in his collection.

Today saw la designers comme Sabyasachi, Pria Kataria et JJ Valya that saw a runaway of colours as Kataria will also showcase his jewellery brand ‘The Cappuccino Collection’ avec dazzling white et champagne diamonds. Valya’s collection is called ‘Tasveer’ is an amalgamation of India’s craft et contemporary fashion while la Bengali designer’s design sentiments this season is personalized imperfection of human mind.

Sonam Kapoor has been in Cannes for the duration of the festival, seen here is an exclusive photo shoot taken from Kenneth Willard’s camera for French makeup giant.

The picture shows Sonam draped in a glamorous black gown flirting with a chef in the kitchen. Sonam’s hair is pulled up in an elegant French twist.The sumptuous Indian actress is also seen frolicking Oceanside with her heels in her hands.

Sonam’s solar beauty is radiant as she struts down the street in a navy Vivienne Westwood gown with a modest slit and a natural look with her hair.

The incubator of trend and style, the backstage at Dubai Fashion Week Fall Winter 2011 was laden of histrionics, excitement, hastiness, smiles and sulks. The hair fixing to eyebrow twitching and running pencils to dabbing brushes, every spec and strand was under the scanner to present the picture perfect shows. Mirror cracking stares, bulged pouts, screams, natters and fluid poses captured the backstage with overzealous aura and maddening experience. The waiting-for-their-turn models, focused makeup artists and hurrying choreographers turned backstage into no less than a theatre.

With the passing days at Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week, the backstage mellowed to bear the sky high bizarre quotient on. The changing themes of the show was originated and complimented by changing moods at backstage. From soaring heels and ready-to-fall head gears to pricking pins, the models kept hurrying around. The makeup teams and choreographers were at the helm of thrill, shouting and running after the models with brushes and concealers.

Amidst all this chaos, Fashionfad lens caught up with Binal Trivedi and Bhawna Sharma helping out each other, Noyonika Chaterjee getting her hair done and designer Manish Malhotra weighing his sari to adjust the drapes.

Here is sneak in to the backstage with the models for the Academy of Art University show at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. Keeping makeup and hair simple and stylish is a big trend for Fall 2011 as previewed at the runways. TRESemmé Stylist Team is the official hare care group here. Models buzzed in and out carrying the energy of fashion and beauty forecast for the coming season.

The final day of WIFW S/S 11 kept brewing with the biggies of fashion appearing at backstage. With only eight shows to go models sighed and were found chatting and chilling around after the shows. But still the trademark anxious shrieks and shouts were very much adhere-able before every show. Similarly, the concealers, powders and shadows were all on overdose. The cynosure Shilpa Shetty along with Chitrangdha Singh for Tarun Tahiliani’s magnificent grand finale revved up the fizz factor backstage with everyone peeping and trying to sneak in the green room to get a glimpse of her.