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9 awesome moments from Amazon Fashion week

October 18, 2016 15:33 IST

Presenting some of the most memorable moments from Amazon India Fashion Week in Delhi.

Take a look!

 1. The Pirates of Calcutta 

AIFW 2017

IMAGE: Anupama Dayal's collection was an ode to women raised around the port city of Kolkata. It was beautiful to see how she brought about an amalgamation of the many cultures, Anglo, Bengali, Chinese, Filipina, Malay, Dutch, French, Portugese, through the collection. 

Quite a spectacle to watch all the models walking barefoot on the ramp for the show.  

Photographs: Kind Courtesy FDCI/Facebook

2. To Sir, With Love

AIFW 2017

IMAGE: Model Diva Dhawan, left dressed in a Masaba Gupta black-and-white tunic printed with a caricature of her mentor and fashion designer Wendell Rodricks. According to Masaba, she wouldn't have been in fashion had it not been for Wendell. 

Showstopper Athiya Shetty shares a affectionate moment with Masaba. 

Photographs: Kind Courtesy FDCI/Facebook

3. Dance Vidyut, dance

AIFW 2017

IMAGE: This is probably the 'coolest' moment of AIFW 2017. Vidyut Jammwal broke into a gig when walking down the ramp for fashion designer Pawan Sachdeva.   

Photograph: Kind Courtesy FDCI/Facebook 

4. Mother-daughter walk the ramp

AIFW 2017

IMAGE: For Pratima Pandey, her mother was the showstopper. What a beautiful moment it was to watch the mother-daughter duo walk on the ramp. 

Photograph: Kind Courtesy FDCI/Facebook

5. This designer turned showstopper for her show

AIFW 2017

IMAGE: Who needs a showstopper when the designer herself is so gracious and gorgeous. Pria Kataaria Puri takes centrestage at her show. Touted as the 'kaftan queen', she brought kaftans under the limelight again through this show. 

Photograph: Kind Courtesy FDCI/Facebook 

6. These men got swag!

AIFW 2017

IMAGE: Fashion designer Malini Ramani launched her first menswear collection. The designer roped in two of her closest friends filmmaker Mozez Singh and entrepreneur Daljit Sean Singh to walk the ramp for her. 

Photograph: Kind Courtesy FDCI/Instagram 

7. Nod to Chanderi

AIFW 2017

IMAGE: Jyotiraditya Scindia, center, opened the show The Road to Chanderi on Day one at AIFW Spring/Summer 2017. He was dressed in a white kurta-pyjama and Nehru jacket.

Photograph: Kind Courtesy FDCI/Facebook 

8. Woman power on the ramp

AIFW 2017

IMAGE: Fashion designer Tanieya Khanuja walked along with her gorgeous 'army of girls'. Her new line was dedicated to mothers, sisters and daughters, of course! 

Photograph: Kind Courtesy FDCI/Facebook

9. Sona Mohapatra humming her biggest hits on the ramp

Sona Mohapatra

IMAGE: Singer Sona Mohapatra turned muse for the designer trio Viral, Ashish and Vikrant. She sashayed down the ramp humming the lines of some of her biggest hits. 

Photograph: Kind courtesy Sona Mohapatra/Instagram

10. And it's a wrap

AIFW 2017

IMAGE: The designers and their models gather for the concluding photograph. 

JJ Valaya and Alpana-Neeraj brought down the curtain with a special guru-shishya show, a first-of-its-kind presentation in the history of AIFW. 

Photograph: Kind Courtesy FDCI/Facebook