Photographs by Richard Pereira and Gulshan Sachdeva

For a first-timer at Fashion Week, she sure managed to pull in an enviable string of high profile celebrities to grace her front row. Surily Goel's marketing genius could not be faulted either, as names like Gauri Khan, Preity Zinta, Avanti Birla, Kamal Sidhu and Amrita Arora took their seats dressed in signature Goel ensembles. Akshay and Twinkle cheered throughout; Salman gallantly bent down to kiss Preity's hand during his whistle-inducing ramp strut and Malaika sizzled in a daring rose-printed creation. The collection induced a state of frenzied buying fever amongst Surily regulars, but it's the immense goodwill of the designer and the casting coup she achieved that we applaud!

Preity Zinta	Akshay Kumar, Twinkle Khanna
Neelam Kothari, Surily Goel, Salman Khan, Malaika Arora Khan	Shirish Kunder, Farah Khan
Kamal Sidhu	Avanti and Yash Birla