Over 38 seasons and hundreds of designers, Lakme Fashion Week’s (LFW) Winter/Festive 2018 edition, still remains one of the industry’s most coveted fashion celebration. A glimpse of the recently concluded season, that was all about glamour, innovation, art, glitz, sophistication, and celebrity red carpet style.
Lasting Impression
Drawing inspiration from things as varied as art, travel, and geography, the young designers at Lakme Fashion Week’s GenNext show displayed collections that were creative and commercially astute. Ajay Kumar Singh’s work saw graphics, digital prints, patchwork and kantha embroidery on khadi and handloom fabrics. While, Noida-based Anurag Gupta’s work saw denim biker jackets, trenches, and tunics with added details on cuffs, waistbands, and lapels. And Yadvi Agarwal of Yavi used the rich silks and velvets of her garments as a canvas on which she presented painterly prints and her trademark one-thread impressionist embroidery to create artworks reminiscent of a Van Gogh or Renoir painting.
Sustainably Yours
Rajesh Pratap Singh debuted his Indian, ethnic, style collection “Welcome to the Jungle”. The garments combined the ecological Tencel
with Indian crafts such as Chanderi, Banarasi, Jamdaani, hand block prints and more. The garments revealed a contemporary twist to the Indian interpretation for Tencel weaves. The result was a rare sustainable fashion collection that presented innovations on a global level with green fibre and artisanal textiles. Inspired by William Morris’s design interpretations, nature and animal motifs were cleverly woven into the fabric store, while blends of silk, cotton, and wool gave Tencel an innovative approach. Rajesh opened the show with a softly hued off-white pure Tencel look and then built the momentum gradually with colors to finally end in a crescendo of festive hues.
Royal Tribute
Gaurang’s Lakmé Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2018 line was a respectful ode to that great actress Savitri who was one of the greatest icons of the Tamil, Telegu, Kannada and Malayalam film industries. His collection ‘Anupama’ saw rich fabric from Mangalgiri to Kota and then luxurious brocades, silks, organzas, handwoven sateens and chiffons that came together to create the vision of beauty during the golden era of Savitri. For the finale, Gaurang moved away from the usual and brought in the very graceful and beautiful ballet dancer Pia Sutaria who pirouetted down the ramp to the foot-tapping tune of the hit song Mud Mud Ke Nache from the blockbuster movie ‘Shree 420’.
Men at Work
Kunal Rawal’s ‘Perspective’ was inspired by the chaos that could offer many viewpoints. The overshirt sherwani was a great look, while the Kunal Rawal staple – the sleeveless jacket was reinterpreted with basic but innovative structures. Collarless soft jacket over a printed bundi kurta and churidars in beige and white was a relaxed casual option. Varun Dhawan as the show stopper of the evening added a lot of class and pizazz to the ivory button-less sherwani, kurta, slim trousers, worn with a black bundi.
The Breakthrough
Good Earth Sustain’s first-ever couture presentation was a homage to the craft of gota. Design doyen Anita Lal played hostess and the evening saw live models in the tradition of ancient Mughal miniature art. Live music added to the surreal feeling of being inside an artistic creation that saw the details of the delicate gota work on the clothes.
Tinsel Treat
Like every season, this one also saw Bollywood in full attendance in the first row and at the ramp too. Malaika Arora, Diana Penty, Bipasha Basu, Disha Patani, Kiara Advani, Dia Mirza, Jacqueline Fernandez were among those who turned heads on the runway. The major highlight of the season was Janhvi Kapoor, who walked for Nachiket Barve and the mom-to-be Neha Dhupia, who took the centre stage with her husband Angad Bedi for Payal Singhal. Last but not the least was style diva Kareena Kapoor Khan who walked the finale for Monisha Jaising.
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