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Fashion Week's next edition in October
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EntertainmentTeam on 19 April, 2008 08:35:00
 
New Delhi: Bathed in refreshed colour palette, flowing creations of fashion
designers would once again enthrall fashion freaks as the Fashion Design Council
Of India (FDCI) on Friday announced that the spring-summer edition of Wills
Lifestyle India Fashion Week (WIFW) is scheduled for October 15-19. FDCI
director general Rathi Vinay Jha said: "WIFW has strongly established itself as
country's largest national level business of fashion event. And each time we
look forward to do better business."
She also said in a statement that the 'by invitation only' event caters to the
entire fashion fraternity. It is a successful platform that brings together the
best of designers, buyers from India and overseas as well as domestic and
international media. The main aim of the event is to serve as an effective
platform to promote fashion design and provide industry professionals the
opportunity to form trade linkages within India and globally.
"The five-day long extravaganza offers participating designers a business
presence and a series of marketing tools aimed at informing and updating buyers,
investors, corporate houses and the media," she maintained. Sumeet Nair,
executive director of FDCI, said: "The recently concluded edition of WIFW was
the best fashion week we have had so far in terms of both trade and talent. This
indicates that since the inception of India Fashion Week, an initiative of the
apex Council, the fashion industry has grown from infancy to adolescence and is
on the right track."
"With a spectacular show of the autumn-winter edition, we look forward to an
even bigger and richer experience in the new season," said Atul Chand,
vice-president marketing of ITC's Lifestyle Retailing.(IANS)