1. The Fashion Design Promotion Council plans to open a fashion hub at Maidan Garhi in Delhi. The DDA has earmarked 10 acres of land for the project. But as the year ends, it’s just an empty promise.
2 . Abu Jani-Sandeep Khosla were to open the HDIL Couture Week with the entire Bachchan
clan on the runway. However, they backed out at last minute complaining they weren’t getting the promised number of front row seats for their guests.
3. Who’s the Barbie girl? That’s what kept Katrina Kaif and Aishwarya Rai busy during the Lakme Fashion Week. At a special show at the Week to celebrate 50 years of Barbie Doll, Ash was expected to be the celebrity Barbie of the Year. However, toy-makers, Mattel, sprung a surprise by signing Kat for the finale.
4. After Delhi, Mumbai, and Kolkata; Bangalore and Chennai, too, got their own fashion weeks, however, the buyers were conspicuous in their absence.
5. The ghost of plagiarism stood up as Gunjan and Rahul of Sirali in WIFW accused Delhi Fashion Week debutants Sandeep and Gaurav of copying a pink dress from their SS 2009 collection. Abdul Haldar from LFW claimed Vikram Phadnis had copied one of his 2006 gowns.