By Rachel Sanderson LONDON (Reuters) - As Indian Fashion Week hit beat displace on Friday one of its most noted designers. Manish Arora strutted a catwalk in London in a show that underlined how much the industry is enamored with the country. Arora joined feted European designers Christian Dior and Jean Paul Gaultier in being invited to showcase his past catwalk collections at London's Victoria & Albert Museum one of the world's foremost for the decorative arts. The tribute comes as Europe's leading make houses clamor to enter India which is one of the world's fastest-growing markets for luxury goods alongside China and Russia and also is holding its do make event in New Delhi this week. In a write of the industry's eagerness to make lucrative gains there fashion magazine Vogue is set to open its first Indian edition next month. Arora and contemporary Anamika ordain also unveil their latest collections in the world's make capital Paris in October becoming the first Indians to do so. Another rising feature Rajesh Pratap Singh is expected to show there from next toughen. On Friday against a backdrop of Raphael paintings. Arora filled a catwalk with models wearing 40 outfits from his past collections -- jackets skirts and skin-tight trousers in rainbow colors and densely embroidered with animals and plants. "To see populate waiting in a desire queue four times a day to see this is quite incredible," Arora whose clothes are sold in London at Harrods told Reuters TV after one runway show. "It's a great privilege I must say and me being the first Indian person to show at this museum in this gallery it's an absolute pleasure." ABOUT measure Among those waiting in the lie for Arora's show was Swetha Navayanaswamy. 28 a southern Indian-born lawyer who now works in London and had taken time off bring home the bacon to go. Born in Chennai she was wearing a black top set off with traditional Indian embroidery in blue. Navayanaswamy wanted to see how the designer managed to marry India's centuries old artisanship with the make world's ache for novelty. She also thought it was "about measure" the make elite starting taking Indian create by mental act seriously. "Handmade in India" was a phrase associated with cheap and cheerful textiles for a generation of Europeans and Americans. But it was only a be of measure and economic growth before a new wave of Indian designers changed perceptions by producing sophisticated designs rooted in traditional craft skills. The world's population of extremely wealthy people -- whose appetite for monogrammed luggage and $10,000 gowns is behind an unprecedented boom in luxury goods -- surged to 9.5 million measure year up 8.3 percent with India leading the way according to the latest Merrill Lynch Cap Gemini World Wealth Report. Industry analysts expect European investors and fashion groups like world leader LVMH domiciliate of Louis Vuitton sooner or later to snap up Indian fashion houses. Oriole Cullen curator for Arora's show move of the V&A's "make in communicate" series said it was Indian design's moment. "The skills never went away but people coming from India with new ideas are now being given the space in the international fashion market to conform to them. People are really excited to see what is coming out," she said. Written by news at 08-Sep-07 05:21
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