[tps_footer]Ace Designer Manish Malhotra opened The Lakme Fashion Week Summer/Resort 2014 season with a collection called A Summer Affair.

Sonakshi Sinha, made a graceful entry in a long floor-kissing sheer midnight blue kurta with stunning white embroidery to set the mood of the delicate ethereal collection.

Sonakshi Sinha, who showed her newly acquired svelte figure at The Lakme Fashion Week Summer/Resort 2014, says her consistent workout regime has contributed to her fitter frame.

“I started working out in November, 2013 and now in March, the results are showing. I have been consistent through out. I was also shooting my films but I was also regular with my work-out,” the actress told post the show.

Manish Malhotra showcased about sixty ensembles on the runway on the first day of The Lakme Fashion Week Summer/Resort 2014.

Manish’s collection saw kurtas, summery skirts, slim pants, pre-stitched saris and cholis, long gowns, high neck women’s sherwanis, wide pleated palazzos, jackets, printed sherwanis, shirt-kurtas, cotton and linen trousers.

Staying true to his favourite navy blue and grey, Manish Malhotra added shades of pink to the collection. The designer also allowed neutral beige, white and black to complete the colour spectrum.

The men’s collection introduced print on print and different textures in contemporary Indian jackets. Sherwanis were overruled by bandis, and kurtas got a makeover as shirt kurtas by the designer in his latest range.

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Post the show Manish said. “My line is influenced by the romanticism that exists in today’s day and age. Summer 2014 for me is about the feelings and emotions this modern day romance evokes.”

The front row was completely packed with some known faces from Bollywood; Kangana Ranaut, Kajol, Tanisha Mukherjee, Sonali Bendre, Urmila Matondkar, Ameesha Patel, Zarine Khan, Zayed Khan, Lisa Haydon, Sophie Choudry, Esha Gupta, Richa Chaddha, Swara Bhaskar, Tusshar Kapoor, Punit Malhotra and Hard Kaur.[/tps_footer]