Fardeen Khan enthralled by surge of fashion-talents by Pearl Academy graduates

Rejuvenated slim-trim-toned Bollywood star-actor Fardeen Khan ( Guest of Honour) seemed enthralled as he applauded heartily. As is known, debonair Fardeen is back-in-action with this horror-drama come-back (2022) movie ‘Visfot’ directed by Sanjay Gupta - Chaitanya Padukone

The debonair style-icon Fardeen was witnessing this mega-event which had a dazzling display of mind-boggling exotic alluring outfits on the fashion-ramp by the talented graduating students at the Pearl Academy Portfolio 2022 last evening at the Sahara Star .

Not surprisingly, eminent Bollywood senior actor-producer Viveck Vaswani, the dynamic Dean of Contemporary Media --Pearl Academy beamed with thrilled pride as he keenly watched the grand convergence of Tech and Creativity of his Academy Alumni.

Pearl Portfolio'22", was an annual celebration event where all the graduating students from Pearl Academy's School of Fashion, School of Design, School of Contemporary Media and the D School of Business in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore displayed their final projects on which they were graded.

The event was inaugurated by acclaimed veteran actor-model Boman Irani and as the fashion pageant concluded the Academy requested Fardeen Khan to felicitate alumni Vaishali S - for her contribution to innovative designs on the global platform
The invited special guests also included Fardeen Khan, Ananth Mahadevan, Lalit Pandit, Abeer and Rohansh Pandit, Bharat Dabholkar, Keith Stevenson, Shaahid Amir, Narendra Kumar, Preet Kamani, Shweta Rohira, Sukesh Nayak (Head Ogilvy India), Sagar Bellary, Aakash Bhatia (Looop Lapeta), Chaitanya Padukone, Arzan Khambatta, Mayank Shekhar, Vikram Bawa and Anuraag Batra.

This year's theme was "Tech and Creativity" where the brilliant students displayed the future of parallel realities, a sci- fi metaverse universe with unimaginable possibilities.

Hundreds of graduating students displayed their extraordinary creative maturity and imagination power through their projects; to hundreds of industry celeb-guests, parents, design intenders and media pesronalities.

The students exhibited a sparking array of fashion & glamour exhibiting a wide assortment of timeless drapes, hues and casual attire involving glitterati from the fashion world.

Alka Madhan, Regional Director Pearl Academy West says "Pearl Academy has always supported the thriving desire of budding talent to reform new rules of fashion and creativity. Every student is trained towards perfection by understanding their personal skills and interests. The belief is to create fashion entrepreneurs and not just design generators"

Viveck Vaswani, Dean, School of Contemporary Media shares, "Pearl Academy is known to give the best creative talent to the media, entertainment, design and fashion industries. Our growth as a creative institution started in Delhi but we are a pan India organisation, growing rapidly!’

Acclaimed actor and creative curator Boman Irani says "It's always nice to see young creative people encouraged to bring out the best in them. They have the opportunity, platform to carve a path for themselves. It excites me to see so much talent, digital, virtual & physical world coming together as one.

This platform will provoke a thought process in them to think of the future. I wish them all the best" Eminent actor Fardeen Khan expressed, "This year about 200 graduating young talents from the school of Design, Business, Fashion and Media of Pearl academy Mumbai have come together to gain industry-level practical experience and produce outstanding designs for recognition.

It was an amazing, impressive parade of glam-glimpses of what the creative young minds have imbibed and accomplished".