About Lakme Fashion Week

If you happen to talk about the changing fashion scene in India, the conversation would certainly be incomplete without mentioning the Lakme Fashion Week. This bi-annual event is more than just an elite fashion show. It has today become the primary platform for new and budding designers to showcase their talent.

Earlier known as the Lakme India Fashion Week, it was conceptualized by the Fashion Design Council of India in the year 1999. Since the first event, the LWF has been widely covered by domestic and international media, thus making it the ideal platform for new designers to make their presence felt. At the same time, the event also gets to see the emerging trend in the fashion arena by the more prominent and established designers of the country. Though the event split between Delhi and Mumbai, under different names, the glamour and sheen of the events stay unaffected.

Over the years, many initiatives were undertaken such as the ‘Gen Next’ and ‘Emerging Designer’ to promote new talent. These initiatives are the perfect launch pad for a new designer. In collaboration with INIFD, a renowned and one of the most reputed designing colleges in India, then Gen Next program kick-starts each year by featuring young and emerging talents from INIFD.

Students from INIFD, each year, have successfully spiked the fashion quotient up a whole notch with their fresh ideas and talent at the LFW. The originality and imagination that runs from their skillful minds to the runways at the LFW defines the Indian fashion industry with a promise of a trendier world.