Kolkata, Sep 7 - Sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, star cricketer Virender Sehwag and film actors Rituparna Sengupta and Sameera Reddy will be among the showstoppers at the second Emami Kolkata Fashion Week, beginning here Wednesday.

Sarod players Ayan Ali Bangash and Aman Ali Bangash, model-cum-Bollywood heroines Amrita Rao, Rimii Sen, film actor Neil Nitin Mukhesh, starlets Sophie Choudhury and Neetu Chandra, as also Brazilian model Giselle Monteiro will set the ramp ablaze during the five-day event.

Works of several weavers and over 40 fashion designers will be showcased during the extravaganza that opens with the creations of Ritu Kumar, while Manish Malhotra's designs bring down the curtains.

The KFW-II has 'Earth Couture' as the theme celebrating India's ethnic roots, in view of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation declaring 2009 as 'The International Year of Natural Fibre'.

Sixteen of the participating designers are taking part in a fashion week for the first time, said promoters Mindscapes Maestros managing director Yudhajit Dutta. There will also be a committee interacting with buyers, some of whom are expected to fly down from foreign soils.