29 March 2022, Mumbai:

Curators of India's Largest Intimate & Beach Fashion Showcase and An Intimate.

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India Intimate Fashion Week ( IIFW India ) is a platform designed to shed a powerful spotlight on all facets of the Indian intimate apparel industry.

Season 5: April 2022

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India Intimate Fashion Week ( IIFW India ) is a platform designed to shed a powerful spotlight on all facets of the Indian intimate apparel industry.

This exceptional business platform exhibits both emerging and established brands around the Country & gradually around the globe, spanning market categories of detailed intimate wear industry viz. Lingerie, Lounge / Sleep wear, Leg wear, Yoga & Active Wear, Swim/Beach Wear, Lingerie accessories, Men's undergarments , Intimate Hygiene & personal care products and more on a grand fashion week format.

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Specialties

Lingerie, Intimate Fashion, Beachwear, Swimwear, Plus Size, Fashion Shows, Fashion Week, Exhibition, Brand Promotion, Digital Marketing, International Trade, Franchising, Distribution, Fashion Modeling, Talent Management, Event Services, Event Management, Fashion Photography, Advertising, and Branding Services.

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CREDITS: IIFW (The news article has not been edited by DFU Publications staff).

26 March 2022, Mumbai:

Designer Vaishali Shadangule showcased her new handloom couture collection Fil Rough at the FDCI x LFW.

The collection featured Shadangule’s signature rope-like draped details and surreal silhouettes. Its layers and textures added intrigue to monochromatic looks and volume in skirts and cocktail dresses added drama.

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The collection boasted of a rich color scheme of red, purple, brown, and gold. It mixed traditional embellishments such as gold trims with more deconstructed, tactile details.

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Notable looks of the collection included a tactile red gown with a funnel-like neck-piece and a voluminous purple gown with a textured shoulder detail.

Vaishali S recently showcased at Milan Fashion Week as part of the official calendar on February 25. Shadangule presented ready-to-wear collection ‘Srauta’, a tactile, ethereal take on handloom, at Milan’s historic Palazzo Durini. 

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26 March 2022, Mumbai:

Brands Rara Avis and Shruti Sancheti made a joint presentation of their collections on day one of the FDCI X LFW.

Rara Avis by Sonal Verma launched a new ready-to-wear collection & Hodophilic which was inspired by the rich landscape of human emotion. The collection transitioned into metallics and highlighted traditional Indian craft techniques.

Its notable items included A-line retro-style dresses and gold fringing.

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Designer Shruti Sancheti presented a more traditional take on ready-to-wear through her Alchemy.

The collection featured delicate Mughal era embellishments and handcrafted details on gowns and sets.

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Running from March 23 to March 27, the FDCI x Lakmé Fashion Week is being held at the Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium at India Gate in New Delhi for the first time this season.

The physical runway shows are broadcast live on the organizers’ respective websites and social media accounts this season and designers can retail their wares at the fashion week’s designer showroom segment. 

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28 March 2022, Mumbai:

Owned by Reshmandi, the textiles e-commerce platform Reshaweaves has opened its first retail outlet in the national capital New Delhi.

Located at Nehru Place, the storehouses a wide range of natural fabrics including silks, cotton, viscose, hemp, and banana fabrics sourced straight from weavers across the country.

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It will cater to end-users, fashion designers, exporters, retailers, and corporate houses in the city. Mayank Tiwari, Founder, and CEO, of Reshamandi, say, New Delhi-NCR has been a key area for us and the offline model allows our end-users to touch and feel the natural fabrics and sarees lovingly crafted by weavers across the Indian subcontinent.

The store claims to be India's first and largest digital ecosystem for natural fibre supply chain, starting from farm to retail, and also sells sarees from different parts of India.

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The NCR-based store will showcase an exquisite range of natural fabrics including - high-quality silks, cotton, viscose, hemp, and banana fabrics sourced straight from weavers across the country.

The offerings have been diversified to cater to the requirements of end-users, fashion designers, exporters, retailers, and corporate houses.

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26 March 2022, Mumbai:

As part of the FDCI Khadi presentation, six brands showcased their unique takes on handloom textiles at the joint Fashion Design Council of India x Lakme Fashion Week.

The second day of the FDCI × Lakmé Fashion Week focused on sustainable fashion as an array of brands looked to modernize eco-friendly textiles and innovate responsible design solutions.

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Brands Mossi, Abhishek Gupta Benares, Anavila, Anju odi, Charu Parashar and Rina Dhaka came together to showcase Khadi’s versatility Mossi presented an elegant, clean and architecture-inspired take on Khadi.

The garments comprised drapes and a bold colour palette of red, white, and black. Abhishek Gupta Benares’ menswear and womenswear collection focused on the fabric manipulation and structure of Khadi, Meanwhile, created in collaboration with Burdwan weavers, Anavila’s collection used natural dyes and modern-style Jamdani motifs to celebrate the region’s craft heritage.

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Anju Modi’s collection was feminine, delicate, and featured an array of occasion wear. The collection used a sattvic colour scheme including haldi, chandan, keshari, designed to have a harmonising effect. Charu Parashar used Khadi to dress the modern bride for collection ‘The Khadi Bride’.

Khadi silk was used for kurtas and sarees in metallic tones with opulent floral embroidery. Rina Dhaka focused on lightweight and skin-friendly textiles this season.

With an off- white and cream colour palette, Dhaka played with textile to create an ethereal aesthetic. Actress Kangana Ranaut walked as the showstopper for the Khadi presentation in a white saree, overcoat, and ample jewels. 

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26 March 2022, Mumbai:

South Asia and Middle East’s largest retail intelligence organization, the Images Group launched the 21st edition of India Fashion Forum, India's largest fashion retail intelligence event, at The Leela Ambience in Gurugram.

As per Akhilesh Prasad, President & CEO, Fashion & Lifestyle Business, Reliance Retail, the industry's future is ever-changing and dynamic, and it needs to create more adaptable models, Saloni Nangia, President, Technopak, kicked off the forum by sharing fashion retail industry insights through the lens of economy and GDP, the overall fashion industry, and key trends for 2022 - 23.

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She emphasised the impact of COVID-19 on consumer spending power and expressed her optimism that the industry will recover in the coming years, with an estimated 10 percent increase in GDP per year until 2025.

The India Fashion Forum 2022 is a platform for outstanding, eye-opening innovation in the fashion industry, ranging from agile design tools to exceptional in-store tech influencers, from the dynamic science of fashion retail analytics to hyper-targeted social marketing. 

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CREDITS: Technopak.

28 March 2022, Mumbai:

Metaverse Fashion Week Draws Big Brands, Startups.

Brands including Forever 21, DKNY and Estée Lauder are using the digital event in part to study how consumers will shop in virtual worlds.

It began Thursday and runs through Sunday in the virtual world called Decentraland.

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Digital-only fashion shows have taken place in the past, but the four-day event is one of the highest-profile efforts to gather big brands around—or inside—the concept of the metaverse, a virtual world where people can interact, work, and shop.

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Luxury style manufacturers and smaller startups are utilizing the digital occasion to host style reveals and open shops in Decentraland, promoting each bodily gadget deliverable in the actual world and digital items accompanied by non-fungible tokens, the digital property generally known as NFTs.

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CREDITS: wsj.com Mint Techilive Mywinet (The news article has not been edited by DFU Publications staff).

26 March 2022, Mumbai:

Featuring icy metallics and intricate details, the new collection, Winter Rain’ by designer Samant Chauhan launched at the joint FDCI X LFW this season.

The collection created a world of permanent winter inhabited by eleven women in regal gowns.

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Using delicate Chikankari embellishments, swathes of black, and ethereal silvery hues, the collection showed the beauty to be found in the darker human emotions.

Known for his conceptual collections, this season Chauhan used the runway to create an entire winter landscape with snow, clouds, and leaf-bare trees. The collection was refined and kept a formal air and told his story through beautiful detailing on classic silhouettes of gowns, cocktail dresses, and tailored sets.

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The collection was primarily womenswear but concluded with actor Manoj Bajpayee closing the show as the showstopper wearing a silvery suit. Both Chauhan and Bajpayee hail from Bihar and have a long standing friendship, Bajpayee told News18 about his latest role. 

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CREDITS: Fashion Network.

26 March 2022, Mumbai:

On March 15th C.L.A.S.S. Eco Hub launched the 3rd edition of C.L.A.S.S. ICON Award, the annual competition with the aim of sponsoring and rewarding a visionary creative who is able to combine design, responsibility, innovation, and communication.

This is the call to action launched by Giusy Bettoni, C.L.A.S.S. CEO and founder, together with former C.L.A.S.S. ICON winners and sustainable fashion experts Gilberto Calzolari (2020) and Duarte (2021), during the latest C.L.A.S.S.

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ICON Instagram Live.

In the course of the social media panel, our guests shared their fruitful experiences with the C.L.A.S.S. team and its partners on their way to a more sustainable fashion business: “C.L.A.S.S. ICON opened so many doors in terms of suppliers that provide sustainable and certificated fabrics and are willing to help you out, while in general, it is not easy to be a small brand and have big factories helping you find the right materials.

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And finally, we really appreciated the everyday support from the C.L.AS.S. team who pushed us and challenged us to always try more sustainable ways of doing business.” Says Ana Duarte, founder of Duarte and winner of C.L.A.S.S. Icon 2021.

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