Designer Arjun Khanna's collection at Lakme Fashion Week, Mumbai

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Models presenting Arjun Khanna's collection at Lakme Fashion Week '07 in Mumbai. Ajun's Khanna's return to India in 1989 evoked a major change in his approach to fashion. Graduating from the American College of fashion in London, Art has always been his first love - the only subject he excelled in since childhood. What followed were a course at the Blackheath College of Art in London and a photographic course from Pillia's school of photography. He started off with what he felt to be a challenge -'Men's wear '. His first collection was aimed at a limited audience - men's western wear featuring the Oxford look followed by the Dick Tracy line of 30s and 40s. "It was a period when I designed for my own satisfaction and my clothes were wild and at that time unwearable." Starting with a mens li