• Kareena Kapoor Khan closes Lakme Fashion Week for designers Gauri and Kanika. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
    Kareena Kapoor Khan closes Lakme Fashion Week for designers Gauri and Kanika. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
  • Kangana Ranaut presents a creation by designer Disha Patil at Lakme Fashion Week. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
    Kangana Ranaut presents a creation by designer Disha Patil at Lakme Fashion Week. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
  • Katrina Kaif models for Manish Malhotra during Lakme Fashion Week winter / festive 2019 in Mumbai. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
    Katrina Kaif models for Manish Malhotra during Lakme Fashion Week winter / festive 2019 in Mumbai. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
  • Shibani Dandekar and Farhan Akhtar walk for designer Payal Singhal during Lakme Fashion Week winter / festive 2019 in Mumbai. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
    Shibani Dandekar and Farhan Akhtar walk for designer Payal Singhal during Lakme Fashion Week winter / festive 2019 in Mumbai. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
  • Shibani Dandekar also walked got designer Bandana Narula at Lakme Fashion Week. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
    Shibani Dandekar also walked got designer Bandana Narula at Lakme Fashion Week. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
  • Ayushmann Khurrana and Disha Patani present creations by designers Rohit Gandhi and Rahul Khanna at Lakme Fashion Week. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
    Ayushmann Khurrana and Disha Patani present creations by designers Rohit Gandhi and Rahul Khanna at Lakme Fashion Week. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
  • Adah Sharma looks unusual in his Pinkey Agarwal ensemble at Lakme Fashion Week. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
    Adah Sharma looks unusual in his Pinkey Agarwal ensemble at Lakme Fashion Week. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
  • Shabana Azmi plays model for designer Kaveri at Lakme Fashion Week. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
    Shabana Azmi plays model for designer Kaveri at Lakme Fashion Week. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
  • Genelia D'Souza presents a creation by designer Saroj Jalan at Lakme Fashion Week. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
    Genelia D'Souza presents a creation by designer Saroj Jalan at Lakme Fashion Week. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
  • Soha Ali Khan presents a creation by designer Kavita Agrwal at Lakme Fashion Week. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
    Soha Ali Khan presents a creation by designer Kavita Agrwal at Lakme Fashion Week. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
  • Neha Sharma in Kraft Peacock Couture at Lakme Fashion Week. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
    Neha Sharma in Kraft Peacock Couture at Lakme Fashion Week. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
  • Urvashi Rautela in a Mausumi Mewawalla outfit at Lakme Fashion Week. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
    Urvashi Rautela in a Mausumi Mewawalla outfit at Lakme Fashion Week. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
  • Shilpa Shetty for designer Punit Balana at Lakme Fashion Week. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
    Shilpa Shetty for designer Punit Balana at Lakme Fashion Week. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
  • Malaika Arora walks for designer Diya Rajvvir at Lakme Fashion Week. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
    Malaika Arora walks for designer Diya Rajvvir at Lakme Fashion Week. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
  • Arjun Kapoor teams up with friend designer Kunal Rawal at Lakme Fashion Week. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
    Arjun Kapoor teams up with friend designer Kunal Rawal at Lakme Fashion Week. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
  • Rhea Chakraborty presents a creation by designer Ambika Lal at Lakme Fashion Week. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
    Rhea Chakraborty presents a creation by designer Ambika Lal at Lakme Fashion Week. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
  • Indian cricketer Hardik Pandya presents a creation by designer Amit Aggrawal during Lakme Fashion Week winter / festive 2019 in Mumbai. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
    Indian cricketer Hardik Pandya presents a creation by designer Amit Aggrawal during Lakme Fashion Week winter / festive 2019 in Mumbai. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
  • Esha Gupta on the runway for designer Pallavi Mohan during Lakme Fashion Week winter / festive 2019 in Mumbai. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
    Esha Gupta on the runway for designer Pallavi Mohan during Lakme Fashion Week winter / festive 2019 in Mumbai. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
  • Malavika Mohanan presents a creation by designer Vineet Trahul during Lakme Fashion Week winter / festive 2019 in Mumbai. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
    Malavika Mohanan presents a creation by designer Vineet Trahul during Lakme Fashion Week winter / festive 2019 in Mumbai. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
  • Lisa Haydon presents a creation by designer Amit Aggrawal during Lakme Fashion Week winter / festive 2019 in Mumbai. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
    Lisa Haydon presents a creation by designer Amit Aggrawal during Lakme Fashion Week winter / festive 2019 in Mumbai. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
  • Samita Shetty attends Lakme Fashion Week. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
    Samita Shetty attends Lakme Fashion Week. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
  • Shriya Saran attends Lakme Fashion Week. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
    Shriya Saran attends Lakme Fashion Week. Photo: Sujit Jaiswal / AFP

Celebrity models – and guests – at Lakme Fashion Week


Panna Munyal
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Katrina Kaif returns to the runway for celebrity designer Manish Malhotra at the winter session of Lakme Fashion Week, which was held in Mumbai from August 21 to 25. Joining her from the film fraternity are actor Farhan Akhtar and singer Shibani Dandekar, Kangana Ranaut and even Shabana Azmi, plus cricketer Hardik Pandya.

Cutesy Instagram posts aside, Akhtar and Dandekar continue to set couple goals with their matching multi-hued outfits, designed by Payal Singhal, while Malaika Arora and Arjun Kapoor, too, walked the ramp this year.

Click through the gallery above to see the stars in this season's Indian-wear collections. 

Winter collections aside, this session of Lakme Fashion Week is also billed as its "festive 2019" edition, with both bridal and occasion-wear taking centre stage.

The show opened with Rohit Gandi and Rahul Khanna, who roped in Disha Patani and Ayushmann Khurrana, and concluded with Gauri and Nainika's finale presentaion with Kareena Kapoor Khan leading the way.

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