Kolkata Fashion Week to endorse ‘eco-fashion’

The city’s prestigious fashion platform, Signature

Premier Fashion Week Kolkata has announced its next edition to be held from September 14 to 17, 2012. The focus will be promoting weavers of West Bengal. The theme of this year’s Fashion Week is Eco Fashion. Well known designer Susan Mantosh also announced her upcoming brand ‘Due Drop Pearl’ at the press meet.

Designers like Abhishek Dutta, Agnimitra Paul, Soumitra Mondol were present at the pre-event conference to pledge their support for the eco fashion. The conference also witnessed unveiling of the logo by the weavers’ community.

Top names from Indian fashion industry including Manish Malhotra and Narendra Kumar Ahmed as well as renowned city designers like Agnimitra Paul, Jotish Debnath, Soumitra Mondal, Paromita Bandopadhyay and Abhishek Dutta would present their designs at the four-day fashion gala.

While designer Jotish Debnath would be reintroducing ‘jamdani saris’, Sandip Mukheerjee, a designer from remote West Bengal, would focus on unique Khadi styles. Agnimitra Paul, participating in the event for the first time, would create a women-specific collection based on Madhubani paintings.