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Some famous and some not so famous yet glamorous celebrities made the fourth day of Wills India Fashion Week 2008 a big day with their sheer presence. Manav Gangwani , duo Rohit Gandhi-Rahul Khanna and Khushali Kumar were behind pulling the stars down on the ramp. The celebrities included Kunal Kapur, Celina Jaitley, Soha Ali Khan, Sophie Chaudhary, Zayed Khan and style guru Manish Malhotra, providing plentiful of attention and leaving the shutterbugs asking for more.
Bollywood heartthrob Kunal Kapur stole the show for Rohit Gandhi and Rahul Khanna. Dressed in a brown, long velvet jacket with oversized collars and straight fit trousers teamed with a burgundy polo neck T-shirt, Kunal walked the runway with much panache on Friday evening.
While petite Celina walked for Khushali Kumar in a long, heavily embroidered purple dress, the other stars set the ramp ablaze for designer Manav Gangwani.
In her collection, Khushali had skilfully created textures and surfaces through crumpled and smoked effects, pleating, quilting and metallic acetates. Other fabrics used were georgettes and embroidered laces. The colour palette ranged from powder pink, muted beige, hints of pale blue and the ever-so eternal black.
While silhouettes were both fitted and flowing, there were also short dresses, floor length gowns, off shoulder and skin-tight dresses today.
An amalgamation of the essence of Sunset Street in Los Angeles and the movie `Sunset Boulevard` inspired Manav Gangwani. The street is known for its glitzy nightlife, restaurants and nightclubs. The designs are for the rich, famous, glamorous and ultra chic people with more of evening and cocktail wear. The colour palette encompassed black, coral, ivory, burgundy, grey and mossy green.
The show kicked off with Soha walking the ramp, flaunting an ivory coral dress with orange sequins embroidery. The models sashayed down the runway decked in balloon sleeved jackets, net sleeved dresses, bubble jackets, gathered and textured dresses, long and cropped jackets, pleated bubble skirts and blouses of varied styles and designs.
The men`s collection offered digitally printed, bubble bandhgala jackets, trousers and shirts with broaches.
Actor Kunal Kapoor stole the show at the ongoing Wills Fashion Week here as he walked the ramp for designers Rohit Gandhi and Rahul Khanna`s label Cue.
Fashion guru Manish Malhotra wore a black jacket with purple applique embroidery teamed with black trousers.
Singer and VJ Sophie walked in a heavy black bubble dress made of 60 metres of cloth.
Actor Zayed Khan concluded the show sporting a black velvet jacket with intricate orange embroidery teamed with straight trousers.
WIFW sure seems to have gone down well with the celebs, tomorrow being the final day of the fall/winter show more stars are expected to mark their presence.
