Fitness freaks and vogue-conscious inhabitants mark the character of this chic city. You are not mistaken if you call it the “New York of India”. Fashion weeks are held in the city now and again. The Fall/Winter Lakme Fashion Week 2008, convened in Mumbai, was grand and sublime.

It included the GenNext show, wherein, eight designers showed imaginative work, with a Focus on pleating and layering, all with detailed craftsmanship that would be rare to find at the sophomore level in western countries.

The designers captured variegated themes from the flowing water of the rivers of Tibet to sartorial spirit incarcerated in floral prints, from the vibrant hues of parrots, peacocks, sensual iconographic details of floor and brick arches. It showed the designing potential that is still in its nascent stage.

Mumbai, India’s great marketplace, is like a colossus of a bazaar. The city of civic consciousness is a major port and has the country’s largest and wealthiest consumer market.

Textiles, designer clothes, footwear, artwork, interior décor items-name anything that has a style quotient and be sure to find it in Mumbai- This fad funder of a city is the nucleus of finance and fashion, fun and frolic, and its boulevards are flooded with femme fatale capturing fleeting glances to fixed gapes galore as they flummox all and sundry.