Names Of Designers, Sponsors For LFW Unveiled

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Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 12:12

Mumbai, Sep 15 : Names of 75 participating designers and 13 sponsors for the upcoming Lakme Fasion Week Spring Summer 2009, to be held from October 20 to October 24 at the National Centre for Performing Arts here, were announced today.

The names for LFW, a joint initiative of Lakme and IMG, were unveiled by Anil Chopra, advisor Lakme, Ravi Krishnan, advisor IMG India and Vikram Raizada, IMG head of fashion.

LFW's new initiative of the exclusive men's wear day, a first of its kind in India, will witness eight of the country's talented designers displaying their expertise in Men's fashion.

In the Gen next categry there will 10 new faces, while established and emerging categories will feature 50 and 11 designers respectively, Mr Chopra said, adding the Lakme grand finale would be presented by Sadyasachi Mukherjee.