HDILCouture Week 2009

HDIL Couture 2009, a six-day star-studded extravaganza will show up its second edition with top notch Bollywood stars like Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Akshay Kumar, Sanjay Dutt and Saif Ali Khan who walk the ramp for the fashion pageant.




The couture week is an initiative of the Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI), which annually stages two editions of the hugely successful Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week (WIFW) in New Delhi.

Designers participating in this event are Monisha Jaising, Pallavi Jaikishan, Varun Bahl, Manish Malhotra, Manav Gangavani and Suneet Varma. Ashish Soni, Anamika Khanna and Tarun Tahiliani will be the other designers to feature at the couture.

The Oct 11-16 event will see superstar Amitabh Bachchan walking the ramp for designer duo Abu Jani-Sandeep Khosla’s inaugural show. Aamir Khan, Akshay Kumar, Sanjay Dutt, Saif Ali Khan, Govinda, Ajay Devgan and Katrina Kaif are expected to walk the ramp for Salman Khan’s Being Human show Oct 13.

Then, filmmaker Karan Johar is making his fashion debut at the event. The maker of super hits like “Kuch Kuch Hota Hai”, “Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham” has teamed up with designer Varun Bahl to showcase men’s couture range on the last day. Since Karan Johar’s muse is Shah Rukh Khan, the Bollywood superstar will sashay down the ramp along with his wife Gauri Khan.

Bollywood’s young brigade Ranbir Kapoor and Imran Khan are also expected to walk the ramp.

Unlike WIFW, the couture week is not a business-driven event but more a celebration of the Indian cultural heritage in a grand manner. Hence emphasis igiven more to ramp decoration and creating a grand ambience to give an extravagant touch to the event.