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When the curtains fell at the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week (WIFW) in New Delhi on Wednesday, there was a sense of unity once again among the designer fraternity, with some from Mumbai participating.

I make my own trends Model Tejuswini Chowdhury may have chosen films over fashion, but she was thrilled to be back on the ramp. HT City caught up with the beauty as she walked for designers Lecoanet Hemant. Your style statement: I love to mix and match. I believe in class and confidence. Any trends you follow: I make my own trends.

Designer Rohit Bal?s Grand Finale show at the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week on Wednesday night had all the drama, pomp and ceremony of a grand Bal event ... including a grand clash of egos. Bollywood stars Arjun Rampal and Dino Morea were replaced as showstoppers by Katrina Kaif and Ranbir Kapoor at the last minute, causing some backstage drama and the show to start 90 minutes late.

When designer Rohit Mittal used an imprint of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on a jacket, he did not anticipate what a style statement he was making. Part of his collection, My Wife?s Imagination, that was showcased at the WIFW on Wednesday, the jacket now has offers pouring in. ?A lot of buyers wanted to place orders for it, but I?ve refused.

Black is in. At least that's the overwhelming colour of the walls ? as well as those jackets and dresses worn by the front-seat buyers at Prashant Verma?s packed house Spring-Summer 2010 show.

Ever wondered why Bandra doesn?t have enough bars and pubs? Well, now we know. Bar managers wanting to move there face a lot of problems in an attempt to get hold of a suitable property.

There are designer flu masks, band aids, slings (remember Shah Rukh Khan?s sling at Manish Malhotra?s show last year?) and even designer dog wear. But did you ever imagine a top-of-the-line designer prison wear?

Neat, crisp and a well-executed collection ? Anky by Ankita & Anjana Bhargav, was the surprise package on the fourth day of the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week (WIFW) on Tuesday. The collection had white Egyptian cotton dresses with Shibori panels seamed with grey cotton, and geometric panel dresses with side drapes.

Red red shine Shazahn Padamsee, who?s not even a film old, has already become a celebrity. All thanks to trysts like this one. The starlet, who walked the ramp as the showstopper for Amit GT?s show, knows how to be on the right side of camera. HT City quizzed the looker on her style quotient...

Mumbai, Oct. 28 -- Day Three, at the Wills India Fashion Week, had its share of good and bad shows.
Namrata Joshipura, Small Shop, Varun Bahl, Vineet Bahl and Manish Gupta put up shows worth a huge applause. But designers like Parvesh-Jai, to name a few, made a mockery of the runway by presenting garish swimwear among other ensembles.

The old quarters of any ?World Class City? are always beautiful and clean. Then why is the touristy Old Delhi, also called Delhi-6 due to its pin code, so chaotic and dirty? Tourist websites are full of unflattering descriptions of Old Delhi. Sample this comment by a user called ABD: ?Old Delhi is unruly and filthy and there is nothing to remind of its former glory.

Toyota is experimenting with joystick control for a new breed of compact cars that were on display at the Tokyo Motor Show.

It is well known that the ability to withstand a protracted spell of ascents and descents over Herculean mountains commands veneration. After all, acclimatisation to the elements, especially at night, is not an easy thing. To get an inkling of what a Himalayan trek is like, we decided to go on an overnight trip to a hill close by to battle it out in the night.

Juan Felix Bravo holds the Guinness World Record for skiing a distance of 1,000 km in 10 hours, making him the fastest man on water. Croatian pilot Davor Hundic, who held the world record before Bravo, achieved the same feat in a little over 23 hours.

How much do trekking shoes cost? What kind of shoes will I need for a trek to the lower Himalaya? Sugandh Gupta

On the first day of the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2010, while the senior designers shone bright, their juniors sparkled brighter. The day was high on creative energy.

Guess what?s happening in the Capital apart from the Fashion Week? India?s first beauty pageant for married women held by Gladrags annually is holding selections for the Haier Gladrags Mrs India Contest 2010. And this year the contest has been turned into a reality series that will be aired on TV next month.

Showcasing on the second day of the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week, Rajesh Pratap Singh proved, once again, that he?s predictable ? every season he never fails to present the best!

Why allow a movie star to take the focus away from the collection?? is a pertinent question being asked by top fashion designers even as the ongoing fashion week in Delhi continues to boast of a high ?Bollywood quotient?.

Fashion designer Ritu Beri made a comeback with her show at the Wills Lifestyle Fashion Week last night. Prod the designer further and she interrupts, ?I had never gone anywhere. I am merely making a comeback to the Indian fashion week, not the fashion circuit.?