Yami Gautam to walk for Indian CoutureWeek
Bollywood actress Yami Gautam is set to walk for designer duo Rimple and Harpreet Narula at the FDCI India Couture Week (ICW) 2016, starting from Wednesday.
The five-day fashion gala will take place at the Taj Palace hotel here and the designer duo will showcase on the third day.
Apart from Yami, who will soon be seen sharing screen space with superstar Hrithik Roshan in the upcoming film “Kaabil”, the designers have also styled the likes of names such as Nimrat Kaur, Priyanka Chopra, Kangana Ranaut and Kareena Kapoor Khan.
At ICW, Rimple and Harpreet will showcase their couture collection named Hiraeth, inspired by the late writer Khalil Gibran.
The collection will see a riot of motifs -- the French Paisley, Raj-era Manchester prints, Arabesque cartouches and flowering trellises, graphic geometrical forms from Uzbeki Suzanis, hunting scenes lywood for her creations, but she asserted that celebrities are “big fashion influencers”. “Bollywood has a huge reach in our country. People look up to the celebrities for fashion trends. And these days most of the Bollywood girls are extremely welldressed. They’re big fashion influencers, said Dongre, who roped in actress Kareena Kapoor Khan as a muse for her brand AND, and Aditi Rao Hydari for the “Love