Kolkata : The Kolkata Fashion Week-II, beginning Wednesday, received ajolt Tuesday with title sponsor Emami pulling out over contractualissues.“There were some contractual things, which they wanted us to do but wecould not agree,” event promoters Mindscapes Maestros managingdirector Yudhajit Dutta told Bengal Newz.
“So Emami said they will not be there in this edition of KFW,” he said. Dutta said they were not scouting for some other title sponsors. “We will go ahead without any title sponsors this time.”
The KFW-II has Earth Couture as the theme celebrating India’s ethnicroots, in view of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisationdeclaring 2009 as “The International Year of Natural Fibre”.
Star cricketer Virender Sehwag, sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan and film actresses Rituparna Sengupata and Sameera Reddy would be amongthe showstoppers at the five-day event concluding 13 September.
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