It's A Wrap: Day 2 at Bougainvillea Lifestyle & Luxury Event 2018

While The Bougainvillea Luxury and Lifestyle Fashion Exhibition recently held at Taj Vivanta, Panjim Goa recently concluded, it’s after effects continue to create ripples throughout Goa’s elite and affluent crowd. All these years the fashion lovers of Goa were running to the nearest metropolitan to keep their wardrobes up to date. But that was till last year.

The promoters of Bougainvillea Luxury & Lifestyle changed everything by organizing Goa’s first ever Luxury & Lifestyle Fashion Exhibition on the 1^st and 2^nd Sept 2018 and what happened at the event is sure to stay with the people of Goa for months to come!

To make sure the event got good media coverage, the organizers Radha Goel and Poonam Mittal, invested in more than a month long digital and social media campaigning to attract the right audience. All the marketing and event promotion efforts paid off with more than 35 designers and luxury brands showcasing their work and over 500+ footfalls the 2 day event.

For all those of you who could make it to the event great! We hope you enjoyed every bit of it. But for all those who could not make it there, scroll down as we give a full update on and visual glimpse of what transpired at this exhibition full of glitz & glamour and some of the best pieces that would make you a perfect 2019 luxe ensemble!

The event was a huge success and saw several affluent people of Goa gracing the event. Day 1 saw the inauguration of the event at the hands of Goa’s very own Rakhee Salagaocar. The event had leading luxury designers and brands showcase their work and make headlines in Goa’s social circuit.

Lakme Fashion Week designers like Yogesh Chowdhary Rajat Tangri, Mayank Modi, SatyaPaul and independent couturiers like Harsh Harsh, Malini Ramani, Riti Shah, Bidisha Badhuri & the others showed off their latest couture work at the event. Fashion labels like Esseme, Chic Therapy, House of Kilti, Upasna, Raintree, Anka Fabrics and more were also seen enthralling the audience with their jaw dropping collection. 

Here’s a look at some of the top picks from the exhibits with curated works from our exhibitors.

The attending guests rated the luxury fashion event as one of the best ever seen in town and found it to be very customer centric that addressed the fashion needs of Goa in specific. The exhibitors put up diversified fashion themes and engaging luxury lifestyle experiences that extended beyond the traditional runway or home décor exhibitions. All this translated into sales that instantly made it easy for brand owners and designers build resonance with the guests.

We caught up with some designers on Day 2 and asked them how they felt about participating at Bougainvillea Lifestyle & Luxury Event. As told by most exhibitors felt was very unlike the other events they had been part of in the past. Designers were excited to see such a huge turnout and the interest and desire for high end fashion. They finally felt a platform had been created to bring serious connoisseurs of luxury fashion and couture designers and labels.

A few words about Bougainvillea Lifestyle Premium Exhibition At Taj Vivanta, Panjim Goa from designer Rajat K Tangri of Lakme Fashion week fame. 

Designer Yogesh Chaudhary speaks about his collection Surendri.

Harsh Gupta of #LFW2018 fame, too exhibited his couture collection at the Bougainvillea Lifestyle Premium Exhibition

Media Coverage of The Event 

Evidently, the event was a success and we leave it for you to see it for yourself.  These pictures will tell you how well the event was received by audience on both sides.  While designers continued to wow the crowds with high end brand experiences the organisers at the event made sure there were umpteen picture perfect memories at the venue.   

A note from the organisers Radha & Poonam:

With over 35 eminent designer labels and couture designers putting booths the event saw a huge traffic of visitors like no other event in Goa had seen before.

A sincere thanks to all our exhibitors, the wonderful people of Goa and our venue partners at Taj, Vivanta Goa who came together to make this event such a huge success.

We can’t wait to get started on the 2^nd edition of this exhibition and we promise to make it bigger and better than this year. We look forward to your feedback, experiences at the event in hopes of making a mark on the global fashion industry next year.

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Day 1 at the Bougainvillea Luxury Fashion & Lifestyle Exhibition

Goa’s Luxury Fashion Gets Redefined

2018 will be the year when Goa is recognized not just as the land of sun & sand but a new destination for Luxury and Lifestyle fashion.

The much anticipated Bougainvillea Lifestyle & Luxury FashionExhibition kicked off with much fanfare and received a great response from Goa’s elites. The event was inaugurated by the eminent fashionista Rakhee Salgaonkar with a traditional diya lighting and ribbon cutting ceremony.

More than 300 distinguished guests that included sophisticated audience from the rich and affluent strata of Goa graced the event. 

Pallavi Dempo with Vaishali Joshi (Founder &CEO of V-Factor)

Mrs. Anju Timblo. MD Cidade -de- Goa

Admiral Shekhar Mittal and Ella Mittal from Goa Shipyard Chairman

Namrata Wagle, Sanjana Dempo and Reshma Sukhtankar

With Neelam Khanute

Besides this, people from the media, fashion & movie industry, netiziens and many other people from various backgrounds attended day 1 of the event.

Conceived and co-curated by Radha Goel and Poonam Mittal, the exhibition charts an incredible journey in couture fashion designers and luxury home décor. The infectious energy of luxury fashion and styling the serious fashion lovers found a lot of their choice at the event. Unlike many of the contemporary fashion shows, each exhibiting designer has personally constructed the garments for this event instead of showcasing off the shelf clothes one would find at any other upscale store.

Day 1 also saw many fashion enthusiasts interact one-on-one with the participating designers to discuss how luxury fashion could interlace their personal stories of life and career in custom made garments.  The guests soon couldn’t get their eyes off the stunning designer work at display. With the rhythms of soft music nestled in the air, the guests were seen moving from one booth to the next, only to discover more from the latest in fashion world. Geometric prints, embroidered sequins and opulent bridal work, bright details or futuristic & sophisticated cuts and colours; there was a lot for the guests to explore.

Guest Speak~

"A fitting compliment to the luxury fashion needs of Goa. I am enthralled by the technical brilliance of a designer’s craftsmanship and artistry." 

                                                 ~Marina Matthews

“This event has changed they way Goa’s elite fashion & style statement was defined till date. Our wardrobes and fashion needs just got what we were long looking for. Thumbs up to Team Bougainvillea to have brought us this exclusive event.” 

                                                        ~Ruhaan Kumar

“This event is ultimate. This is what Goa’s elite circle was waiting for! Thanks to Radha, Poonam and their team to work relentlessly to bring us such a wonderful event. We look forward to more such events being hosted in Goa.”

                                               ~ Priya Mascarenhas

For all those who missed attending the event, here’s a sneak-peak of what Day 1 at the Bougainvillea Lifestyle and Luxury Fashion Event looked like.

View the Video Here 

But that’s not all. Stay tuned to this space as we add more pictures and videos of Day 2 of the event. See the best of Goa’s tryst with Couture Fashion, straight from the event.

We sincerely hope you had as much fun attending the event as we did organising it for you. We look forward to make it bigger and better in the coming years.