9 biggest moments from Vogue Women Of The Year Awards 2017
- by Anjan Sachar
In preparation for our grand evening this year, we list down the coolest things that went down last time
Right from its debut edition, the Vogue Women Of The Year Awards has been a celebration of magnanimous proportions. Held for the first time last year on September 24, the ceremony saw no holds barred when it came to glamour, and had some of the biggest Bollywood celebrities to the best of Indian fashion designers and women in the fields of sport and finance in attendance. The aim of this night is simple: to shine the spotlight on the most remarkable women (and sone men) that are taking great strides in their career of choice. In case you missed the awards last year, here’s a quick flashback to nine of the biggest moments from the ceremony.
- With guests like Nita and Isha Ambani, Natasha Poonawalla, Natalia Vodianova and Roshini Nadar in attendance, the night was all about woman power.
- Some of the country’s best designers were part of the celebration—everyone from Manish Malhotra to Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla, Anamika Khanna and Falguni and Shane Peacock attended the event.
- Twinkle Khanna received the Opinion Maker Of The Year award and made sure we were all in splits with her tongue-in-cheek acceptance speech.
- Our list of winners also included visionaries like entrepreneur Arundhati Bhattacharya, sportswoman Mithali Raj and Supreme Court lawyer Karuna Nundy.
- Shah Rukh Khan serenaded our host for the evening, Archie Panjabi, with a romantic song from his movie, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.
- Gauri Khan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Padma Lakshmi and Shah Rukh Khan took the ultimate #groupfie—one we’d all want to be a part of.
- Archie Panjabi was dressed in a Gaurav Gupta and IBM gown that lit up each time an award was announced; a first in our country.
- Karan Johar’s best friends, Gauri Khan and Shweta Bachchan Nanda, presented him with his Man Of The Year Award.
- The party went on till the wee hours of the morning with celebrities and the Vogue team dancing away.
Scroll onwards for a visual throwback of all the celebrities that attended the Vogue Women Of The Year Awards ceremony last year.
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Kiran Rao, Natasha Poonawalla, Gauri Khan, Nita Ambani, Shweta Bachchan Nanda and Isha Ambani
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Gauri Khan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Padma Lakshmi and Shah Rukh Khan
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Anil and Sonam Kapoor
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Anushka Sharma and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
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Anil Kapoor and Aditi Rao Hydari
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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Natalia Vodianova
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Anil Kapoor, Nita Ambani, Padma Lakshmi and Kiran Rao
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Anushka Sharma and Manish Malhotra
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Archie Panjabi and Shah Rukh Khan
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Arjun and Sonam Kapoor
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Athiya Shetty and Arjun Kapoor
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Athiya Shetty, Kiran Rao and Kriti Sanon
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Gauri Khan and Shah Rukh Khan
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Gauri Khan and Shweta Bachchan Nanda
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Anushka Sharma and Shah Rukh Khan
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Gauri Khan and Shweta Bachchan Nanda
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Isha Ambani and Karan Johar
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Isha and Nita Ambani
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Jim Sarbh and Radhika Apte
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Manish Malhotra, Kriti Sanon, Arjun Kapoor, Anil Kapoor and Karan Johar
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Gauri Khan, Anushka Sharma and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
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Karan Johar and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
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Karan Johar and Anushka Sharma
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Karan Johar and Arjun Kapoor
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Manish Malhotra and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
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Manish Malhotra and Shweta Bachchan Nanda
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Manish Malhotra, Kriti Sanon, Arjun Kapoor, Anil Kapoor and Karan Johar
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Karan Johar and Anil Kapoor
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Mithali Raj and Rajkummar Rao
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Natalia Vodianova and Karan Johar
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Natalia Vodianova
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Natasha Poonawalla
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Natasha Poonawalla, Gauri Khan and Nita Ambani
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Padma Lakshmi
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Rajkummar Rao, Anupama Chopra, Kiran Rao, Anil Kapoor, Nita Ambani and Padma Lakshmi
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Shah Rukh Khan and Gauri Khan
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Shah Rukh Khan and Gauri Khan
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Shah Rukh Khan and Gauri Khan
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Shah Rukh Khan
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Shah Rukh Khan, Gauri Khan and Anushka Sharma
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Shah Rukh Khan, Gauri Khan and Nita Ambani
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Shweta Bachchan Nanda and Arjun Kapoor
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Sonam and Anil Kapoor
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Twinkle Khanna and Karan Johar
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Twinkle Khanna
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Ujjwala Raut and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
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Ujjwala Raut and Shah Rukh Khan
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