Lakme Fashion Week

Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) is jointly organized by Lakme, the No.1 cosmetics and beauty brand in India, and IMG Fashion, the global leader in the management and production of fashion weeks and designer fashion events. LFW has been conceived and created with a vision to redefine the future of fashion and integrate India into the global fashion world. It is organized twice annually. The event's own account, including its portrait of the Lakme brand, is kept below as the record.

The event's website, lakmefashionweek.co.in, is linked from this page; it returned a 406 response when checked, which is a server refusal rather than proof the site is gone, so the link is kept as recorded.

Illustrative image created for this guide — an artistic impression, not photographs from these shows.

Beauty Brand Meets Fashion Week Producer

The partnership behind LFW pairs the two halves of a modern fashion week. Lakme brings the beauty industry — the cosmetics, skincare and salon world that styles every runway look — and a household name in India. IMG Fashion brings the production system: the management of fashion weeks and designer events worldwide. A title sponsor from the beauty trade is woven through fashion week history, from Zagreb's Wella week to Mumbai's Lakme week, because hair and make-up are co-authors of every collection that walks.

The brand account kept below fills in the Lakme side: a beauty expert continuously innovating across color cosmetics, skincare and beauty salons, leveraging Unilever's worldwide expertise and partnerships with cosmetic houses in Milan, Germany and Paris, and combining international cosmetics technology with an in-depth understanding of the Indian woman's needs.

Twice a Year, Aimed at the World

Organized twice annually, LFW runs on the international calendar's rhythm, presenting the two seasonal collections a designer needs to sell a full year. Its stated ambition — to integrate India into the global fashion world — is the outward-facing version of the argument every Indian fashion week in this guide makes: that Indian design, standing on a deep textile and craft heritage, belongs on the world schedule not as an exotic guest but as a regular stop. The India fashion industry and news pages linked from this page carry that story beyond the runway.

The Beauty Sutra Meets the Runway

The brand account kept below describes Lakme's offer as a holistic Beauty Sutra experience — cosmetics, skincare and salons combined, built from international technology and an understanding of the Indian woman's needs. A fashion week run by that brand extends the same logic to clothing: the total look. Models' hair and make-up at LFW are not backstage services hired in; they are the title sponsor's own craft on display, which is why beauty-led fashion weeks present some of the most finished runway imagery in the business.

Twice a year, that finished presentation is aimed outward. Integrating India into the global fashion world, in the event's founding phrase, means Indian collections photographed, reviewed and bought on the same terms as any other stop on the calendar — the beauty brand's polish in service of the designers' argument.

For readers following the Indian season, LFW's twice-yearly rhythm makes it the metronome of this guide's Indian pages: the FDCI's council week, the Wills Lifestyle business event and Delhi's destination week all take their place around the two Lakme editions each year.