India
Fashion collection in Goa, Lebanese dance troupe in Jaipur, different ways to welcome 2007
Candolim(Goa)/Jaipur (Rajasthan) | December 31, 2006 1:08:49 PM IST
One of India's top fashion designer has chosen to usher in the New Year by launching a fashion collection in the carnival ambience of Goa. Malini Ramani, whose clothes ooze glamour, lent the lan to the carnival atmosphere with her new collection, which saw a great opening with fun, food and frolic. Top Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan lent support to the show. The clothes, which had a touch of nostalgia, reminded one the fashion of the 1970s. "The event started with my fashion show, then it went to the carnival, and then the sunset. It was all fun, full of stars and bright colours, what an eve is essentially all about," said Malani Ramani. Goa was the place from where Malini drew her inspiration for this Tropical designer collection. The place and time of Malini's launch was also deliberate, as an estimated 400,000 tourists flock the resort state during Christmas-New Year time. If it was fashion that ruled the roost for welcoming 2007 in Goa, in Rajasthan, a Lebanese dance troop invited year-end partygoers to savour the flavour of authentic Middle Eastern food and culture. The people saw the show as a head turner and relished the Arabic food along with an ambience that was straight out from the Arabian Nights. The dance-troop said their performance in Jaipur was one of the best ever, with a huge turn out of party buffs during the Christmas holidays, which they expected to continue till the New Year celebrations. "We know that the difference and space between the people of India and Arab is too big. This is a big thing for our troop to have Christmas and New Year celebrations in India," said Hussain, a Lebanese Artist. To add to the ambience, the partygoers also had a choice of Lebanese food. Tourist arrivals in India during November rose to 11.4 per cent from a year earlier, with four million visitors registering in the month. This is expected to go up with the New Year celebrations. (ANI)
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