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Photos: Smoking HOT Sonakshi and India's TOP designers

Last updated on: March 5, 2012 16:47 IST

Image: Sonakshi Sinha takes the ramp for designer JJ Valaya
Photographs: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com

Ten of country's top designers showed their collection in a mother-of-all shows for Karmik. Photographer Dominic Xavier gets clicking!

Fashion entrepreneurs Neha and Pradeep Hirani bring together ten of country's finest designers under one umbrella -- a designer pret fashion house -- Karmik.

The idea of the brand is to make designer-wear more accessible.

So you had ten of India's top designers showing their collections, designed for Karmik, in a single show.

Sonakshi Sinha opens the show looking stunning in a JJ Valaya outfit.

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Photos: Smoking HOT Sonakshi and India's TOP designers

Image: Surelee Joseph walks the ramp for designer Anamika Khanna
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Surelee Joseph is a vision in white as she models an Anamika Khanna creation.

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Photos: Smoking HOT Sonakshi and India's TOP designers

Image: Diva Dhawan walks the ramp for Shantanu-Nikhil
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Diva Dhawan in a pair of simple black leggings and a figure-hugging top by Shantanu-Nikhil.

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Image: A model showing designer Ranna Gill creation.
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Designer Ranna Gill dazzles us with this psychedelic dress.

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Image: A Rina Dhaka creation showcased as part of Karmic
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Gypsy girls seemed to have been the inspiration behind Rina Dhaka's creations.

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Image: A model showcasing Rocky S's designs
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We cannot quite figure what was going through the mind of Rocky S when he came up with this line. Saas-Bahu serials, perhaps? We wonder!

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Image: Shamita Singha stuns in a red Anarkali by Neeta Lulla.
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Photos: Smoking HOT Sonakshi and India's TOP designers

Image: Kritika Babu strikes a pose in a deep V-neck salwar by Shane and Falguni Peacock.
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Image: A model walks the ramp in Kavita Bhartia's golden-black cocktail dress.
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A model walks the ramp in Kavita Bhartia's golden-black cocktail dress.

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Rohit Bal's collection was the last to appear on the ramp and needless to say was one with the most drama even as its palette rarely went beyond blacks and whites.

Deepti Gujral in one of Bal's creations.

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Image: India's top designers take a bow.
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The master designers take a bow: Rocky S, JJ Valaya, Shane (behind Valaya) Shantanu (of Shantanu-Nikhil), Kavita Bhartia, Neeta Lulla, Sonakshi Sinha, Rina Dhaka and Nikhil.

Anamika Khanna wasn't present for the show while Rohit Bal, though in the first row, did not step on the ramp.

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