Delhi Fashion Week

Delhi Fashion Week is a bi-annual fashion event held in New Delhi that showcases the collections of the most creative talent in a luxurious format. The name Delhi Fashion Week follows the international practice of christening the fashion week event after the name of the city in which it is being held. The participation to Delhi Fashion Week is ‘by invitation only’ and each participating designer has to undergo a stringent jury which selects the designer on the basis of the ingenuity of his design.

Organisers

Delhi Fashion Week is organized by Prodigy Fashion an event management agency that is found with a purpose of conceptualizing and executing Fashion related events and activities. A well experienced team of Incube Fashion, are consultants to the Prodigy Fashion. Sumeet Nair is the Managing Director of Incube Fashion and is also the founder member of Fashion Foundation of India. He is amongst the few fashion consultants in India who have the necessary expertise and knowledge about the Fashion industry. He has to his credit the conceptualization and execution of the first fashion week in India almost a decade back. The team altogether has handled many large scale fashion events in the past and has the necessary expertise of conceptualizing and executing event of the magnitude of Delhi Fashion Week.

Fashion Foundation of India

The Fashion Foundation of India is founded with a purpose of capacity building for the Fashion Design and Manufacturing Industry. It is set up with the intent of bringing together leaders from across sectors to help grow the fashion and design industry in India as well as overseas. The Society will be a proactive body involved in multiple design, fashion, and craft initiatives to help advance the industry.

The following entities have come together and have laid the foundation of the Society (Founder Members): Anamika Khanna, Atsu Sekhose, Neeraj & Alpana, Hemant Sagar, Meera Muzaffar Ali, Malini Ramani, Varun Sardana, Priyadarshini Rao, Rahul Reddy, Raghavendra Rathore, Gaurav Gupta, Abhijeet Khanna, Rohit Bal, Tarun Tahiliani, Jason & Anshu, and Sumeet Nair.

The Fashion Foundation of India will address both macro and micro issues affecting the fashion industry in India. The Society will work towards marketing ‘India’ as a ‘design hub’ and promote India as a new ideology in design like Japan, New York and Belgium in the past.

The Foundation will work closely with designers to understand their needs and bottlenecks and endeavour to provide customized solutions. It will work towards furthering the business interests of each designer by giving such assistance as soft loans, grants based on the business proposals made by each design house. The Society will also help in developing infrastructure to enhance the business capability. It will commission studies and research to bring forth various aspects of fashion industry. A legal cell will be set up to assist the design houses in matters including IPR, Licensing, Contracts, and Arbitration etc.

About the Event

The format of the Delhi Fashion Week is based on the feedback received from buyers, eminent people from within the industry, media, international agents and the designers themselves. It addresses the need of a “fashion forward” event which can be more creative and focused. The Delhi Fashion Week at the Emporio will have talent that has been stringently selected by an extremely eminent and credible jury comprising of Fashion editors, stylists and models.

Venue

Delhi Fashion Week will be held at the Emporio, India’s first luxury destination home to some of the biggest brands and designers. The entire show and stall area will be a fully air-conditioned and tented area carefully designed to exude a sense of luxury and creativity.