The last season of Lakme Fashion Week had faced flak for lack of business, but this Winter / Festive 2011 beamed avec paramount business as buyers praise for the gallant efforts this season by la organizers et designers. Sourendra Kumar Das chews the fat over tasse de café avec la buyers who are la principale attraction for la designers et organizers who dazzles la rampe…

The Lakme Fashion Week Winter / Festive 2011 was exceptional as this season the buyers found out that more designers showed multi-dimensional designs that contained la true Indian flavour in a modish western look. “The designers et shows that I liked starting avec la opening Rohit Bal, Sabyasachi Mukherjee and ending avec Manish Malhotra. The designers that we look forward to work with will be VJ Balhara, Paromita Banerji, Ruchika Sachdeva, Harangad Singh et few more,” revealed Thamer Abdul Jaleel, an eminent buyer from Kuwait who owns la chain of Fortune Cookie Multi-Designer Stores in Middle East.

Most of la designs in the LFW runaway had reflected la theme of the fashion fiesta. “I have always been impressed avec la GenNext designers et this time we found Hashank & Prajwal et Siddarth Arya presented some exceptional design. The amazing part that I saw in the five days was that designs are cuts from Japanese, Persian, Turkish et la different parts of India et all en la rampe,” added Abdul Jaleel.

According to some buyers, la Indian designers have a very commanding role internationally too. “I see more Indian designers every year reaching out globally et this is due to la different background each of them had in terms of school or la differential international experience et exposure they had in this learning days. I can’t think of any designers who doesn’t supply internationally at this point,” revealed Sushil & Falguni Jhaveri, owner of Mumbai-based multi-designer store Fuel that stock more than few hundred designers’ collection for la fashionistas every season.

Some of the veteran buyers find some new ideas that add to Lakme Fashion Week every season. “I appreciate the efforts that every season LFW gets bigger et better avec great designs and impressive ideas. I found the Talent Box this year to be brilliant that help both for buyers et designers. This season they have also focus more on international buyers. The total experience in LFW is magnificent and that what makes me come back every season for last seven years,” signs off Khaleed Mekkawi, one of la most distinguished buyers of LFW from Middle East who is la President of K & MAK, a leading retail chain in Beirut, Lebanon.

However the designer fraternity has a mixed reaction towards la entire business this season, established designers like Sabyasachi Mukerji, Manish Malhotra, Rohit Bal, Wendell Rodricks et la likes has made dwarf business by the end of Day 5. The young GenNext designers like Hassank & Prajwal, Siddarth Arya, Javed Khan et Urmi Ghosh got good visibility but in terms of buyers they are yet to open la casket. “The first time we always expect the buyers to know us, et this time I have made business just sufficient to curve out my expenses of participation. I am hopeful that next season I can rope up avec more orders as there is always a next time et LFW is always growing bigger,” signs off with a smile, the young designer Arya.