Yesterday I attended the NIFT Fashion Design Graduation show. And I was astounded. Well-conceptualized garments, some much better than the garments I have seen at India Fashion Week.
I do wish I had been more alert and kept a notepad with me. I do not remember the details.
Each designer showed around 5 garments, based on a theme and there must have been 30 designers in all. Slouchy silhouettes, wired hemlines and bulging whacky pockets were noticeable in all the collections, trends that had hit the FD batch enmasse.
Jyothsana Swarup’s collection borrowed high ruffled necks from French royalty; had ballooning tunic silhouettes with layering and sudden tapering at the knees with stockings. Check out the neon style eye-make up by Mayank that has been in vogue on the ramp for a long time now. I feel that we should start wearing such eye-make up regularly; at least to parties!
Her collection was named ‘Similar Dilemmas’. She explains - An individual is a combination of different characters and roles. Each ensemble reflects one of the various shades of a single person – a tyrant, a saint, a troubled person, one who can hear many voices, a carefree and buoyant soul who is least bothers and enjoys life to the fullest!
I think it’s a collection that’s unwearable enough to be fashionable; and original, practical and loads of fun enough to be wearable. How do you like it?
Marilyn Thomas’s collection left me amazed at her power of visualization. The first model who walked the ramp wearing Marilyn’s creation gave the audience the ‘wow’ moment they were looking for. She walked up in a white dress – flouncy skirt, narrow bodice, tie-ups around the waist and midriff. At the headramp, the model undid the tie-ups to let the skirt fall and reveal a colourful dress that simply sprang out of all the white! The skirt was the lower part of the dress.
Marilyn Thomas: The drama dress
Marilyn Thomas: Orange stockings..hmmm!
Marilyn Thomas: Fashion framed as art
Here, have a look at Vinita Adhikari’s collection. The theme of the collection was ‘Doodle’ and I think it rocked!
Drifting away from slouchy-ness and a casual attitude, Rahul Verma designed garments “OUT OF THE BLOX”. His collection was inspired by Bahaus, the great art movement - geometric, minimalist, clean and modern. His work was suggestive of architectural style, experimental attitudes, pioneering technological advances, modern-day environments and lifestyles with compartmentalization. Rahul Verma won the award for the best design collection.
Have a look at Rahul’s meticulous planning that went into the collection. Boxy from head to toe. Have a look at the designer’s desk.
All kinds of concepts had been explored – Out of my granny’s closet, Association between clothes and body, Travel and influences, Pop-op art, Boxy lives, Deconstruction.
India is getting some good designers.
