US President Barack Obama (R) and First Lady Michelle Obama disembark from Air Force One upon arrival at Air Force Station Palam in the Indian capital New Delhi on January 25
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New York - New York designer Bibhu Mohapatra is riding high since Michelle Obama arrived on a landmark visit to India wearing his dress -- his Fashion Week show was mobbed Wednesday.
Dozens of people given standing-room tickets were turned away from a packed house at Lincoln Center, forced to watch the fallwinter 2015 collection on TV screens in the lobby as there was no more room.
The collection was full of rich fur coats, both long and cropped, in white, brown, red and blue, mixed with elegant monochrome tailoring and structured evening gowns in red and electric blue.
Speaking to AFP before the show, a happy and relaxed Mohapatra was loving the attention
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"To be represented in my homeland by probably one of the most important persons and not only because of her fashion style or her following, but who she is and what she stands for, was a big deal for me," he said.
It is not the first time Obama has worn one of his outfits, but selecting the blue flowered dress and matching coat to step off Air Force One with President Barack Obama on January 25 was a career high.
"I feel very fortunate that I'm in a very small way part of that history," he said of the visit, which signalled a growing closeness between Washington and New Delhi.
"One billion people were watching on a live telecast and (the Obamas) being received by the prime minister of one of the largest democracies. Not bad!" he said.
????A model presents a creation from the Kaal E. Suktae FallWinter 2015 collection during Fashion Week in the Manhattan borough of New York February 12
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The Obamas arrived in India on Saturday evening US time, and Mohapatra went straight to his studio and left the pictures on his team's desks.
"I know that means a lot to them. And who doesn't want to get validated for their work? And I felt validated. I got so many phone calls, my phone literally rang all night -- for a week," he said.
- More time in India -
Mohapatra's success is the American dream personified.
He grew up in a middle class family in Orissa, on the east coast of India, and moved to the United States in 1996.
After earning a Master's degree in economics from Utah State University, he enrolled at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York.
Before launching his eponymous label at Fashion Week in 2009, he was design director at French furrier J. Mendel for nine years.
Hollywood actresses Hilary Swank
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"I'm a bit of a nomad, I love to travel," he told AFP.
"I would like to be omnipresent, if I can be, because the world has become a really small place."
Economic development has transformed the India he left in 1996 into a "very different" country, he says.
"It's exciting. Every time I go back, there's so much. We launched in India in 2014 so now we're going to be doing more and more things. A few things are in the pipeline
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But Mohapatra also loves the United States. He lives in New York and spends his weekends upstate, where he keeps chickens named after supermodels.
He started with 17, then there were 21, but there were a "few attacks" and "some models perished," he admits.
"I go every weekend upstate and relax," he said. "I don't cook them, but I like to cook, I like to cook Indian food and invite my friends."
But why the unusual chicken names?
"Because they're beautiful! They're like so elegant and they give eggs
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Supermaxi Wild Oats XI won its eighth line honors in the -Sydney to Hobart race on Sunday, officials said, to become the most successful yacht in the history of the competition.
The Mark Richards--skippered yacht crossed the finish line ahead of American newcomer Comanche in the grueling 628-nautical-mile (1,163-kilometer) race down the east coast of southern Australia, organizers the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia said.
The 9-year-old yacht crossed the line after 2 days, 2 hours, 3 minutes and 26 seconds at 3:03 pm (04:03 GMT), while Comanche finished in 2 days
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"It was our toughest race. To have a boat [Comanche] so close is always difficult, especially when they are going faster than you," Richards told reporters in Hobart after the yacht crossed the line at Battery Point.
"We managed to pull it off, and I just said to the guys, we have just got to hang in there, hang tough, minimize the -losses and wait for the first opportunity we could to attack
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Wild Oats XI, one of five -supermaxis - the biggest and fastest yachts - in this year's race, was also first across the line every year from 2005 to 2008 and in 2010, 2012 and 2013.
It surpassed the record of MornaKurrewa IV, which won seven line honors titles in the 1950s and in 1960.
But choppy seas during the race meant the leaders were -unable to challenge the race -record set by Wild Oats XI in 2012 of 1 day, 18 hours, 23 -minutes and 12 seconds.
The brand-new, cutting-edge Comanche
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But as the boats turned south they encountered choppy seas, prompting the fleet to spread out as they tried to avoid the worst of the weather.
By morning the winds had eased, giving an advantage to the slim-line Wild Oats XI, which broke away from the wider-bodie.
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