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  • NDTV to showcase live coverage of New York Fashion Week

    MUMBAI: An the New York Fashion week gets underway, Indian designer Ashish Soni will showcase his collection at the very prestigious New York Fashion Week. By his side, marking another first for Indian television will be NDTV.

    The channel will provide live coverage of the madness, glamour and business that will take over Manhattan, starting 7 September.

    “It’s such an honour to be a part of New York Fashion Week,” remarks Soni, “and for a media partner, NDTV was my obvious choice. It’s a company that thinks out of the box, and together, we’ve come up with a great collection of programs that we’re going to do out of New York”.
    According to a media release, the programming ensemble includes Soni’s last-minute fittings and preparations in Manhattan on the eve of the show, and, of course, the show in its entirety. Soni and NDTV reporter Aneesha Baig will together cover other blue-chip shows like Calvin Klein and DKNY; the parties and celebrities that are as a much a fixture of fashion week as the fashion shows will also be broadcast on NDTV’s Night Out, which airs at 11.30 pm.

    “Night Out has become famous for covering parties all over the world. In the past, we’ve traveled to Sydney, South Africa and Singapore. And now, it’s going to bring home pictures of some of the world’s biggest celebrities letting their hair down in Manhattan. Our viewers are in for a real treat”, comments NDTV Media CEO Raj Nayak.

    Soni will present his collection in New York on 11 September. NDTV’s coverage of New York Fashion Week will start from 5 September, informs the media release.

  • Fittings schedule for LIFW ’03 start 13 July

    MUMBAI: Preparations for the most important event in the Indian fashion calendar – the fourth Lakme India Fashion Week (LIFW) to be held between 18-24 July 2003 in Mumbai – are in full swing.
    The details of the fittings schedule (13-17 July) has been announced. As reported earlier, Sony Entertainment Television will be the host broadcaster of the event for the next three years.
    Insomnia, the city hotspot located within the premises of Taj Mahal Hotel will be the venue for the fittings schedule that will commence from 13 July (Sunday) onwards. During the sessions, the designers will work with certain choreographers as well as models belonging to either group A or B – all the shortlisted models have been either slotted into group A or B.
    The schedule is as follows:
    13 July: The designers working with model group A include Rocky S, Arjun Khanna, Krishna Mehta Rohit Gandhi and Rahul Khanna. The designers working with mode group B include Anita Dongre/Pria Puri, Aki Narula, Priya Rao/Sabyaschi, and Monisha Jaisingh. The choreographers are Lubna Adams, Asha, Vidyun, Aparna and Tanya.
    14 July: The designers working with model group A include Anamika Khanna, Deepika Govind, Nikhil Mehra, Raghavendra Rathore, Naheed Merchant/Rehane. The designers working with model group B include Ashish Soni, Malini Ramani, Ranna Gill, Ritu Kumar and Lina Tipnis. The choreographers are Lubna Adams, Asha, Vidyun, Aparna and Tanya.
    15 July: The designers working with model group A include MB Grover, Anuradha Vakil, Aparna Chandra, Kavita Bhartiya, Vijay Arora and Tarun Tahiliani. The designers working with model group B include Manish Arora, Arti Monappa, Aparna Jagdhari, Tarana Rajpal, Neeta Bhargava, Niki Mahajan and Anjana Bhargava. The choreographers are Lubna Adams, Asha, Vidyun, Aparna and Tanya.
    16 July: The designers working with model group A include Ashima, Leena, Monapali, Rina Dhaka, JJ Valaya, Payal Jain. The designers working with model group B include Meera/Muzaffar Ali, Anshu A Sen, Sonam Dubbal, Rajesh Pratap Singh and Satya Paul. The choreographers are Lubna Adams, Asha, Vidyun, Aparna and Tanya.
    17 July: The designers include Rohit Bal, Wendell Rodrigues, Hemant Trivedi, Kiran Uttam Ghosh and Liberty Revolutions. The choreographers are Lubna Adams, Asha, Vidyun, Aparna and Tanya.