Star Students’ Scintillation on the ramp at WLCI’s Chimera 2013

 Nineteen young and talented designers from three campuses of one of the finest fashion institutes in India, WLCI showcased an array of their splendid designs and for the first time in the history of fashion on the ramp there was a display of garments embellished with machines. This isn’t all, 19 designers, 19 different collections, Chimera 2013 rained fashion and innovation by students at the graduating fashion show hosted by WLCI.

Chairman Vinay Pasricha said "Collections were unique and exemplary,students travelled from Kolkatta and delhi have been here is commendable,and WLCI college is set make a new wave in the field of fashion".

Faculty Bulbul Chaudhary (Regional Director WLC College), Nutun Kajbaje (Creative Director WLC College) and Vinay Pasricha (Chairman WLC College) put up wonderful show.   

The guests attended and gave awards were the show were Ashley Rebello, Bally Sagoo, Rohhit Verma, Sandhya Mamik, Prashant Sharma, Vasant Bhandari, Asif Merchant, Mukti Mohan, Chandan Roy Sanyal  etc. Show was beautifully choreographed by Shakir Shaikh.  

The students with the esteemed panel of judges also received support from the entertainment industry who was all praises for the budding designers. The attendees were  Vikram Bawa, Rohhit Verma, Narendra Kumar,Eijaz Khan, Mukti Mohan, Chandan, Tarun Mansukhani, Anjali Patil, Sushant Divgikar, Rushwa Parihar, Ameya, Babita Malkani, Vaibhav Ghuge, Amy Billimoria, Kavitta Verma, Prashant Rai, Mohsin Khan to name a few. 

The WLCI Fashion School is a premier fashion institute in the country. It imparts professional training in the field of Fashion Technology through various programs for those who aspire to enter the Apparel Industry. At the end of the program, the student’s final design collection is showcased at ‘Chimera 2013’ 

While the collection displayed was into its being, the students of WLCI have been guided by highly qualified and experienced faculty and have interned with some of the finest fashion designers like Ritu Kumar, Anita Dongre, Neeta Lulla, Archana Kochhar and magnanimous design houses such as Globus and Shopper’s Stop.

Taking pride in presenting the collection of the students or you may call them the designer’s of tomorrow, the head of the creative school; Nutan Kajbaje mentions, “The showcase of the collection by my students is going to be simply outstanding, they have dived deep into their imagination to carve their collection.”

Talking about the rarest fashion on ramp Nutan adds, “The ramp will witness motored embellishments on their garments, then you have meteors& galaxies sparkling the ramp with neon lights and bright colors and to give you this sugar rush, you have three tired cake garment that will make the audiences go awestruck.”

While the nineteen designers present the scintillating show, the jury comprising of Archana Kochhar, Manish Kelshikar, Asad Fakhi, Leena Tipnis, Dinesh Singhal, and Karishma Trehan carefully monitored the perfect combination of creativity and practicality. 

Top most models of the glitterati like Alesia Raut, Sucheta Sharma, Ushoshi Sengupta and others have walked for the students for all these years, this year too sizzled on the ramp this year with Shakir Shaikh’s choreography. 

The collections displayed at the Chimera 2013:- Shahaana Badshahat, Kamadelic, The Seven Deadly Sins, The Essential Nawabs, Transbionic, Candy land, Birds of Paradise, The Felandro, Intergalactic Union, Battlefields& runways, Alien Resurrection, Samurai, Walking like a Child, Prasmatic Kalinga, La Maravilla, The avenging angel, Mistress of the Dark, Spiderwick Chronicles and the Coquette Lady. 

WLCI proudly presented the designers of tomorrow: - Bhavya Savla, Dhara Prajapati, Tanushree Singhania, Nazia Hanifee, Mukti Tiberwal, Ritika Temkar, Sakshi Parashar, Deepam Sinha, Shona Barua, Dionne Claudette, Tanvi Tulaskar, Nasreen Padriwala, Ritu Jain, Soumya Dash,  Aashita Sheth, Rachana Pawar, Ankita Jayaswal, Sherin Thomas, Devyani Parasrampuria respectively after the spectacular collection.

They aren’t students, they are designers already! Impressive!.