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Praj V

Awhirlwind of Fashion, style, petty controversies and a whole lot of jostling!But of course it had its share of glamour. Maybe there’s more hype for thisevent than the Wills Lifestyle hosted by the FDCI in Delhi but in terms of thedesigners showcasing, Bombay has many more emerging designers. Which was goodconsidering the extremely talented show put on by some of them and the somewhatdismaying ones by some of the established ones.

Narendra Kumar’s exciting and very innovative translations of mere fabrics intoliterally beautiful pieces of art adorning the body was fascinating.

The use of show stoppers and celebrities attending the show was rampant and maybe thisis a whole new style in itself that the Indian fashion industry is evolving.Towards the end of each show everybody is at the edge of the seat waiting forthe drama to unfold.

The Grand Finale done for Lakme this year by Wendell Rodricks was no different,with Jesse Randhawa alighting gracefully onto the ramp on a swing brought downright from the ceiling!

For Neeta Lulla, Pria Kataria Puri and Sanjay Malhotra, the mainstay of theircollection seemed to be embellishments, while Prriya and Chintan displayed athoughtful use of the same, what with Sri Devi walking the ramp for them, theyproved their point of being a label for the truly glamorous.

Others hooked onto the trend of making fabric the hero of their collection. RimzimDadu created a clean and minimalist collection with exciting fabrics that shehad developed herself, Asmita Marwa stunned us with her creative use ofKalamkari, an ancient Indian art form. Chanderi, Maheshwari, Ikat and Warliwere some of the unusual fabrics used by Gaba and Deepti Toor. Araiya created arange of lounge dresses, very chic but really faded in comparision to herexperimental collection last year.

The most ingenious use of fabrics and silhouettes was undoubtedly done by Anuj Sharmawho as an extension to his last year’s line assembled garments of square piecesof cloth, only bound with eyelets. There was no end and no beginning to hiscreations and it was all one smooth flow, added to this was his beautifulexplanation that “one should treat fabric sensitively, it is the soul ofthe garment, and not cut it and stitch it any which way.” He seemed tohave caught the fancy of many including Mehr Castelinho, who was very impressedby him.

Abhishek Dutta’s collection claiming to be in favor of Saving the Girl child, had aninteresting use of printed fabric but his collection was made sour by the pettycontroversy of a two year old child, DJ, falling on the ramp.

While Raakesh Agarvwal’s collection bordered on fetishism, Krishna Mehta and Nikasha,went the ethnic way with brilliantly executed garments as did of courseSabyasachi, the master of juxtaposing fabrics, this time adding tiny littlestirring details. Nachiket Barve used applique work in a whole new way withrose cut being very prominent.

All’s good that ends well, but did it really? Let’s not forget the real objectivebehind the fashion week, how much sale did happen at the end of the day?According to Mehr Castelinho the most disappointing part of the fashion week isthat the designers are very unorganized when it comes to business transactions.This was reinforced by one of the buyers from England who was extremelyskeptical of placing orders citing the same reasons. On the other hand was anofficial from Aza who was pretty sure that he was packing up ‘the best of thebest.’

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