New Delhi: A nature-inspired Manish Arora collection on Wednesday opened the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week (WLIFW) amid a packed house of domestic and International fashion houses, indicating a renewed surge of interest in Indian fashion.
Colours, birds and flowers were the theme of the 'Nature Trip' collection adorned by top models including Deepika Padukone and Joey Mathew at the first ramp show of the five-day fashion extravaganza that has returned to the capital after the WLIFW Fall-Winter event in April.
"It was a fantastic beginning," said Director-General of Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI), Rathi Vinay Jha.
FDCI is the apex body of the fashion industry, which is organising the event.
"The show has lined up well and even the buyers have responded enthusiastically," Jha said after the Arora show.
The Delhi-based designer, who will showcase the same collection at the London Fashion Week in September, said his collection was about lives and denied it was inspired by animal rights activist Maneka Gandhi.
Models wearing handwoven patchwork garments some of them done in Benares silk displayed images of animals, birds, fish, flowers, rivers, waterfalls, trees and the sky to 'create a beautiful colourful world' as A R Rahman songs and Vedic chants reverbrated in the backdrop.
More than 170 buyers including 90 domestic houses are taking part in the event which is primary a trade show acting as a platform for taking Indian fashion to the global industry.
Arora who has four stores in India and sells his collections through 85 stores abroad said he would be setting up another store in Kuwait in mid-September.
Top designers participating in the event include Rohit Gandhi, Rahul Khanna, Rohit Bal, Tarun Tahiliani, Rocky S, J J Valaya and Rina Dhaka.
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