Bollywood glamour at ICW 2009

Akshay Kumar, Sanjay Dutt, Saif Ali Khan, Aamir Khan, Govinda, Katrina Kaif and Ajay Devgan walked the ramp for Salman Khan's Being Human show on October 13, 2009 for India Couture Week.

Filmmaker Karan Johar also made his fashion debut at the event. Karan Johar who gave numerous hits like Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham teamed up with designer Varun Bahl to showcase men's couture range on the last day of the event.

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

Other designers who participated in this event were Monisha Jaising, Pallavi Jaikishan, Varun Bahl, Manish Malhotra, Manav Gangavani and Suneet Varma.

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 is given more to ramp decoration and creating a grand ambience to give an extravagant touch to the event.

FDCI president Sunil Sethi said, "Couture is all about extravagance and this gives an opportunity to the designers to add to their creativity by lending more drama and grandeur to the ramp."

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.

SRK "The Best Dressed"

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SRK’s always been associated with style and panache; someone who doesn’t follow fashion trends but makes a fashion statement. The ‘cool’ neckpiece became even cooler when he wore it in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and his ponytail look and six-pack abs are still making news.

What makes it even more endearing is that even after all this, the actor is too modest to accept being called glamorous, which is why he thinks people around him are more glamorous than him!

"If you have personal style, whatever you wear will look stylish." - Shah Rukh Khan, when he bagged the Glam Personality of the Year Award at the Reebok Zoom Glam Awards 2008.

Afterall, he is not called the King Khan without a reason. Apart from
being the top superstar in Bollywood, Shahrukh Khan is also considered
India’s best-dressed star.

Akshay's macho look in Kambakkht Ishq

Film styling is a mere atom in the ever-evolving body of the Indian fashion industry.Shabina Khan is an Indian fashion designer, mainly working for the Indian movie industry Bollywood. She has designed costumes for over thirty films and has been working since 1988.She is in news presently for designing the look for Sylvester Stallone and Brandon Routh in the upcoming film Kambakkht Ishq.

Shabina Khan is a perfectionist of the fashion world behind the outfit of men’s attire.
Shabina is the core resource behind Akshay’s glimpse in his upcoming film, Kambakkht Ishq. Being a perfectionist Shabina’s comment of costume designer and a stylist is that costume designer are far enhanced and well-versed as compare to that of stylist who are merely a substance pickers off the rack.
Her designs are in sync with the times and the actors have become trendsetters for the young generation.



Akshay’s look in Kambakkht Ishq is going to be a staggering macho-man, thanks to Shabina’s dazzling work. She narrates, Akshay plays spectacular act double so that his precondition was to look robust and dress well.

Shabina who is behind Akki's spectacular look in film, started her career in 1988, she had designed clothes for some of India's most famous actors, among them Shahrukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Rani Mukherjee, Hrithik Roshan and Madhuri Dixit.
Also, she has worked as a costume designer in some of India's most successful movies, among them Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Vivah, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham and Hum Aapke Hain Koun.