In photos: From fittings to backstage orchestrations, here's what happened before the celebrity designer's closing show at the Lakme Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2017.
A debut Lakme Fashion Week model prepares to wow an audience that is used to Manish Malhotra's Bollywood friends. The poster of Malhotra's favourite muse Kareena Kapoor in the back stands testament to the high expectations from any show mounted by this designer.
Photograph: Courtesy Lakme Fashion Week.
Photograph: Courtesy Lakme Fashion Week.
The grand finale of a fashion week typically means models who are running on fumes.
Photographs: Courtesy Lakme Fashion Week.
Photographs: Courtesy Lakme Fashion Week.
A model's work begins long before the day of the show. It involves multiple meetings for fittings and rehearsals that only get more intense every day.
Photograph: Courtesy @manishmalhotra05/Instagram
Photograph: Courtesy @manishmalhotra05/Instagram
And it's not just the models. The designer's celebrity muse has to go through similar rigours.
Photograph: Courtesy @manishmalhotra05/Instagram
Photograph: Courtesy @manishmalhotra05/Instagram
Manish Malhotra himself is involved every step of the way -- from monitoring each stitch to the construction of his ramp.
Photograph: Courtesy @mmalhotraworld/Instagram
Photograph: Courtesy @mmalhotraworld/Instagram
No detail is too insignificant for the designer.
Photograph: Courtesy Lakme Fashion Week.
Photograph: Courtesy Lakme Fashion Week.
