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Lakme Fashion Week: Standout styles from designers to watch out for
- Updated: August 28, 2017
Manish Arora, Sanjay Garg and Manish Malhotra. Pics/Shadab Khan, Satej Shinde
A conform week that starts with Sanjay Garg, ends with Manish Malhotra, and throws in nonconformist Manish Arora can't be lacking in variety. The just-concluded Lakmé Fashion Week had a hits and misses, though what it positively managed to do was benefaction a many voices of Indian fashion.
Clothes perform innumerable roles. They emanate drama; fuzz a lines between genders; bond us with tradition and pronounce of a mood we are in. Meet a group and women behind this season’s standout collections in a roundup that takes we by conform week in 5 minutes.
The Purists
Anavila Misra creates sarees from linen, and likes them ragged usually above a ankle. She done a convincing box for a partner, a blouse, seen in styles of a ditch coat, and miscellany of useful blousons with sleeve garters desirous by a 19th century menswear design. Perfect for a lady who wears her smarts on her sleeve, and likes to go about her day but stumbling on her heels.
Nachiket Barve
Nachiket Barve dives low into a past usually to reintroduce it in an exacting, complicated context. The Mumbai designer’s initial bridal-wear collection also noted a decade in a industry. It had copiousness of festive-friendly off-shoulder disposition gowns, slick-sheer lehengas, Anarkali kurtas, blouses swift with capes—all tied together by leisure to mix-and-match.
The Minimalists
Divyam Mehta and Antar Agni by Ujjawal Dubey seem to have a new patron in mind — Generation Gender Neutral — who prefers an amiable and androgynous proceed to clothing. Mehta borrowed draping ideas from Buddhist monks to emanate balmy shapes in layered hang jackets, ponchos and pleated drop-waist trousers treated with Kantha threadwork and Shibori conflict dyeing.
Antar Agni
Literally blurring a lines between Mars and Venus by introducing a palette of colourless greys with lavender, Dubey explored Eastern silhouettes noted by uneven sum over waist coats, jumpsuits, collarless kurtas and relaxed trousers.
The Eclectics
Sunita Shankar has been sensitively during work for a decade, creation her return-to-runway collection a thing of promise. Devoid of caricature and ornamentation, a gaunt separates in tones of black and red distinguished Bandhani from Kutch, Kantha from West Bengal and Bagh prints from Madhya Pradesh rendered on Chanderi and hand-woven textiles from Benaras.
Gaurav Jai Gupta toyed with a thought of complicated over light, as hand-woven Merino nap teamed with wealthy brocade and alluded to a bequest of saree drape. Both in fit and altogether personality, a conform editorial-worthy collection was as most about “engineered” sarees, ample trousers, change dresses and cut kurtas as it was about a doctrine in innovative draping.
The Bohemians
Masaba Gupta has a repute of a sartorial sugar-rush colourist. She total a preciseness of valuables magenta and emerald, keyed-up pastels with sensory lady-like shapes referenced from pinafore dresses, flared trousers, stormy blouses of a ’60s, with her tack — tailored sarees and merry-go-round lehengas.
Paramparik Karigar
Dressed in #craftiscool, a Paramparik Karigar bar — comprising block-printing artist Mohammed Yusuf Khatri from Madhya Pradesh; Dabu master craftsman Bheru Lal Chippa from Rajasthan; Kerala-based Aranya Naturals, Bandhani consultant Shohel Khatri of Gujarat, Ajrakh dilettante Sarfraz Khatri from Mumbai — teamed adult with 5 engineer labels. Whether by texture, poke or a feeling of nostalgia, any plug operation benefited from a free-spirited discourse between heading Indian qualification and complicated vision.
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