With young stars Arjun Kapoor and Jacqueline Fernandez as his muses, ace designer Manish Malhotra on Tuesday raised the curtains on the Lakme Fashion Week, showcasing his beguiling spring summer collection Elements .

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Malhotra used his ensembles to present the four elements -- earth, water, wind and fire and so, models sashayed down ramp wearing clothes mainly in hues of blue and white.

"The show is dedicated to beauty, to celebrate the feel of summer... This whole collection is very much focused on that," Malhotra told reporters here after the show.

 

Cheering the designer were his friends from Bollywood like Kareena Kapoor Khan, Farah Khan, Bhumi Pednekar, Pernia Qureshi, Sangeeta Bijlani, Dia Mirza, Zoya Akhtar, Sooraj Pancholi, Shriya Saran and Ashish Chaudhary.

A total of 90 designers will display their collections on the runway this season, which includes Neeta Lulla, Nikhil Thampi, Anita Dongre, Monisha Jaising, Rahul Mishra, Rajesh Pratap Singh, Masaba Gupta, Payal Singhal and Nishka Lulla.

Eleven models will make their debut at Lakme Fashion Week this time. Also seen would be international models, Azura Skye and Smita Lasrado walking the ramp.

The five-day long fashion extravaganza will serve as a fashion and trade platform for 29 upcoming designers. 

The fashion week will also see six international designers like Lina Wassong, Melissa Coleman, Valerie Lamontagne, Igor Knezevic, Kristin Neidlinger and Chritian Bruns joining hands for the first time to present a collective showcase of fashion and technology titled "ElektroCouture".

The show will comprise of digital knitting and weaving, traditional hand processes to achieve radical shapes to 3D printing etc.

The collaborative collection will be showcased tomorrow and said to be one of the highlights of the season.

The second day of the fashion week titled "Sustainable and Indian Textile Day" will demonstrate eco-fashion in India, covering key values of sustainability holistically and at the same time celebrating the rich heritage of hand-woven luxury and contemporary aesthetic work happening in Indian handlooms and textiles.

Celebrated designer Rohit Bal, who is completing his 25 years in the fashion industry this year, will close the fashion week with the off-site grand finale at St Xavier's College on April 3.

The set was one of the highlights of the show.

Created like a forest with a big white tree built on the ramp and sound of birds chirping put in the background, befitting the show's theme, which centered on nature.