Lakme Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2014: Meet the designers for the show

Mumbai: With an endeavour to encourage and promote the country’s upcoming talent, the Advisory Board members of Lakmé Fashion Week met and selected thirty nine designers for the Emerging category and the Jabong stage, who will show at the upcoming Lakmé Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2014. This season the applications saw an increase of 34% which reaffirms Lakmé Fashion Week’s growing popularity among the fresh talent in India.
A whopping total of 460 applications were recorded this season for across categories, including Gen Next. While the Emerging category received 140 applications marking a growth of 15% from the previous season; the Accessory category grew by 50%.
In its second season, the Jabong Stage has emerged as the perfect platform for the young designers to unleash their fresh and exciting collections. While the newly launched platform will showcase cutting edge styles by 20 designers, it will also host fashion workshops, seminars, launches and much more.
With this selection and the five additional names in the Gen-Next category announced earlier, a total of 44 new and upcoming talent will get a chance to showcase their collections at LFW WF 2014. With these three unique properties, LFW remains the most coveted platform for fashion talent in the country.

Commenting on the applications and chosen designers for the season, Saket Dhankar, Head-Fashion, IMG Reliance, said, “Every season helps us promote a fresh crop of young designers who bring in a new dimension to the Indian fashion industry with their unique design sensibilities. The increased number of entries every season reaffirms the platform’s stature in terms of relevance and reach in the global fashion market. We hope that this platform continues to lead and produce some of the finest fashion designers in the country.”
Lakmé Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2014: Designers
Jabong Stage Designers
NEHA AGARWAL MUMBAI
SAYANTAN SARKAR KOLKATA
SONAM & PARAS MODI MUMBAI
SREEJITH JEEVAN KOCHI
NITIN CHAWLA DELHI
RIDHI MEHRA DELHI
SWATI VIJAIVARGIE JAIN JAIPUR
URVASHI JONEJA MUMBAI
TERESA & UTSAV NEW DELHI
ARPITA MEHTA MUMBAI
AMRITA KHANNA & GURSI SINGH NEW DELHI
CHANDNI MOHAN NEW DELHI
AIMAN AGHA & ARMAAN RANDHAWA NEW DELHI
ASA KAZINGMEI MUMBA
FARAH SANJANA JALANDAR, PUNJAB
HARSHITA DESHPANDE MUMBAI
UJJAWAL DUBEY NOIDA
SIDHARTH SINHA NEW DELHI
PRATHONI YENGKHOM & JACKY LAISHRAM DELHI
LAILA SINGH - ACCESSORY MUMBAI
Lakmé Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2014
Emerging Designers
ANUSHREE REDDY HYDERABAD
DHRUV KAPUR DELHI
ARCHANA RAO HYDERABAD
TANYA SHARMA MUMBAI
PRANAV MISHRA & SHYMA SHETTY NEW DELHI
RAGINI AHUJA DELHI
SHIKHA GROVER & VINITA ADHIKARI NOIDA
MEGHA GARG KOLKATA
RIXI BHATIA & JAYESH SACHDEV PUNE
SONAAKSHI RAAJ MUMBAI
YOGESH CHAUDHARY HARYANA
PALLAVI SINGHEE KOLKATA
ANAVILA MISRA MUMBAI
DIVYA SETH KOLKATA
DEBASHRI SAMANTA KOLKATA
KARISHMA SHAHANI KHAN PUNE
Accessory Designers
KAABIA & SASHA NOIDA
MRINALINI CHANDRA LUCKNOW
SHUBHIKA DAVDA MUMBAI