Runway fashion

For those not from within the fashion business, you would imagine that designers mainly pay painstaking attention to the clothes and hair and makeup looks they put together. But more-so now in recent years than ever before, designers spend a lot of time and energy working out every detail of the show, from music, to runway, to backdrop and lighting.

The runway forms a setting which supports, plays up and portrays a more complete vision of the collection on show.

Take a look at these interesting runways from a clutch of fashion weeks.

Wood chips strewn on the runway at the Ausländer show at Rio Fashion week Fall/Winter 09.
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Seen at Rio Fashion week Fall/Winter 09, this runway is a collage of passport size photographs.
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A roughly hewn wooden runway at Lanvin Spring 08.
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In Delhi, designer Tarun Tahiliani goes temple-style with golden spires, lotus blossoms et al.
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Icicle-shaped chandeliers and a blue backdrop set the tone at Gaurav Gupta's Fall/Winter 08 show.
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In Mumbai, Sabyasachi Mukherjee goes regal with a burgundy velvet runway and ornate chandeliers. Fall/Winter 07.
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But the award for most original concept and execution has to go to designer brand Redley who's show at Rio Fashion week took place in the middle of a jungle on a mountaintop about an hour outside of the city. As lensman Pete Miszuk relates, "During the show there were huge butterflies floating everywhere in the air. It was completely surreal."