Celebrity models and designers throng Kolkata

Kolkata, April 04: For the first time the city is witnessing a deluge of celebrity models and top fashion designers, who are here to participate in the inaugural Kolkata Fashion Week.While Bollywood hotbod and model John Abraham will walk the ramp tomorrow for ace designer Rohit Bals collection, his girlfriend and actress Bipasha Basu is here for presenting a Monapali collection at PC Chandra Greens.

Yesteryear actress and top model Zeenat Aman is also expected to sashay for the weavers collection tomorrow. "This is the first fashion week in Kolkata and all reputed models and designers easily agreed to come here. It was a new experience for them as well," organiser Yudhajit Dutta of Mindscapes Maestros told reporters. Bengali actress sisters Riya Sen and Raima Sen, actress and model Neha Dhupia, Dino Morea and Minissha Lamba have already walked the ramp after the Kolkata Fashion week (KFW) began here on Thursday. `Jab We Met` director Imtiaz Ali, VJ Rannvijay Singh, Dev D actress Mahi Gill also strutted the ramp yesterday in the biggest fashion extravaganza of eastern India. Actress Raima Sen, who walked the ramp for weavers in a red tussar sari, said: "I haven`t walked the ramp in my home city ever since I became an actress. The fashion week here is the same we have in Mumbai and Delhi." "Walking the ramp in Kolkata is a new experience for me and it is good to have a fashion week here," actress Neha Dhupia said. Many designers, who have regularly participated in the Mumbai and Delhi fashion weeks including Rohit Bal, Wendell Rodricks, Zubair Kirmani, Narendra Kumar, Anjana Bhargava and Abhisekh Dutta, are presenting their works in the KFW. Internationally renowned Bangladeshi designer Bibi Russell, who has participated in many fashion shows in London and Europe, said: "Kolkata Fashion Week is close to my heart as they are promoting the work of rural weavers. I have been doing this for years." Other showstoppers for KFW include VJ Anushka, Bengali actress June Maliah, `Chak De` fame Sagarika Ghatge and Chitrangada Singh. Bureau Report