Karachi Fashion Week 2011 - Parading the contemporary lifestyle

KARACHI: Karachi Fashion Week 2011 once again continued to embellish the four days of the city of lights under the devise guidance of the International Pakistan Fashion Council (IPFC) and CEO Karachi Fashion Week, Tariq Amin, pioneer of the dazzling Pakistan.

The event, featuring both accomplished and new fashion designers as well as local and international brands set off the ramp with Fifth Avenue’s mixed anthology of trendy men’s wear and women’s wear intending to inspire and attract the younger crowd as well as get a chunk of the global market.

From there on, the show just got better and better and the audience stayed glued to their seats for the rest of the evening.

The elegant, Sunita Marshall endorsed the experimental wear of the Newports Institute beased on the perceptions of the young fashion apprentices’. The latest hit Chamak Challo further ‘groovified’ the knee length collection of Aamir Baig.

After a while the audience forgot to breathe when Sharifah Kirana-Ghazali’s collection set the ramp on fire with her bridal wear in ivory inspired by her home country Malaysia’s legend of Tun Teja of Malacca, regarded as the most beautiful woman of her time. The models wore painted face silhouettes which amazingly further intensified the feel of the whole collection.

Karachi Fashion Week 2011 then featured Jazib Qamar’s astoundingly bold collection of menswear opening all sorts of new dimensions of the fashion world for which the designer got handsomely applauded by the audience. A fragment of western world also landed on the KFW ramp with the help of Trevor Castelino’s outfits strongly hinting towards the salsa outlook of the designer.

The show closed at 10pm by announcing the best male and female model awards going to Usman Patel and Saba Sikandar, respectively.

The first day of KFW definitely marked the beginning of a show promising all the fashion lovers a tremendous and fabulous time of their lifestyles. But wait, there’s a lot more to come in the next three days of KFW with not only Rizwan ullah’s exhilarating collection but as well as some other prominent designers.

The choreography on the first day of the KFW was done by Imran Kureishi, hair and make-up by Aliya Tipu and Tariq Amin as the consultant. The third KFW is organised by Arshad Siddiqui of Triple-E.

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