Oversized white shirts as blouses. Shredded pallus. Quirky prints in monotone colours. Delicate floral embellishments. The recently concluded edition of Amazon India Fashion Week AW18 gave us an interesting variety of designer saris to stock up on for the coming season. From contemporary and experimental looks to the much-loved traditional style, there is something suitable… Continue reading 10 trendy designer saris spotted at Amazon India Fashion Week AW18
The 31st edition of FDCI’s Amazon India Fashion Week is ready to kick off tomorrow in Delhi, and with over 100 designers participating, you can be sure this year is going to be a smorgasbord of style. From handloom fashion to an ode to digital revolution, each day promises to break the monotony by celebrating… Continue reading What to expect from Amazon India Fashion Week AW18
The Grand Finale at Amazon India Fashion Week Spring Summer ’18 concluded last night with quite a stellar show — designers Rina Dhaka, Rohit Gandhi & Rahul Khanna, Ashish N Soni, Krishna Mehta and Pankaj & Nidhi sent models down a shiny mirrored ramp decked in their ‘see now buy now’ festive prêt collections, but it… Continue reading Suneet Varma’s grand finale at AIFW pretty damn fabulous
Readers of ELLE will vouch for our obvious bias towards easy, fuss-free style. If it takes two hours and three attendants to put together, we want no part of it. It’s this philosophy that dominated the First Cut 2017 showcase, with young labels Aureole, Suparna Som, Sreya Samanta and Third Floor by Saloni Sakaria making… Continue reading 4 young designers who you’ll soon be seeing everywhere
Every year, ELLE and FDCI team up to create a platform where young talent can announce themselves, all guns blazing, onto the Indian fashion landscape. This year, four exciting names have made the cut to present their collections on the FIRST CUT 2017 ramp at Amazon India Fashion Week S/S18 [Gallery id=”843″] Sreya Samanta With… Continue reading Meet India’s most promising new designers making their debut at Fashion Week
Just wearing a flicked line of black along your lids won’t cut it anymore. If the make-up trends at Amazon India Fashion Week A/W ’17 are anything to go by, then eyeliner is set to get very graphic. The cat-eye liner morphed into sharp bird-eye at Wendell Rodrick’s show and blue made a raging comeback… Continue reading 5 edgy new ways to wear your eyeliner
The closing show at Amazon India Fashion Week Fall/Winter ’16 saw a mega lineup of designers. The theme for this year’s grand finale was India Modern. Nine well-known Indian designers presented five to six carefully curated looks. Each label presented a new spin on traditional textiles. Rajesh Pratap Singh opened the show with a continuation… Continue reading Catch every look from the AIFW grand finale F/W ’16
Liitle girls dressed in denim and bold stripes flagged off Ashish N Soni’s show, called ‘The Inner Child’. Other mood-setting props included cotton candy and playground slides. The beauty look followed the childlike brief with a bow-shaped top knot, freckles and 3-D denim nails. The clothes, although, were anything but young. Soni added posh… Continue reading 5 things to know about Ashish N Soni’s S/S ’16 show
Simmi Khanna, 28, is the most sensible girl in all of Safdarjung. She just cannot help it. Good sense is to Simmi what his handlebar is to Sunil Sethi – the two are inseparable. Now her friends have told Simmi that FDCI Amazon India Fashion Week is no place for someone such as herself, but… Continue reading Meet Sensible Simmi
Amazon India Fashion Week delivered stellar shows day after day, and ended with one star-studded night. They gathered some of India’s best designers — 25 of them, to mark 25 years of the Fashion Design Council of India — and put the focus on Indian crafts for the grand finale. It was broken into Western, Indian and… Continue reading 25 years of FDCI, and 25 designers at the grand finale
Last night at Amazon India Fashion Week, Namrata Joshipura proved we need glamour just as much we need normcore. Her FW 2015 line was aptly called Night Goddess and it was full of risqué cuts and peek-a-boo cut-outs, that reminded you of a time when a certain Jolie’s leg exploded on Twitter. This was Joshipura’s first stab at… Continue reading #ELLEReview: Namrata Joshipura
Amit Aggarwal stretched the bindi in unimaginable ways last night at AIFW, at the debut of his ready to wear label AM:IT. He used the remains of the laser cut bindi sheets in his clothes, and added texture in unexpected ways. (In fact, upcycling was a running theme at Abraham & Thakore too.) Aggarwal knows… Continue reading #ELLEReview: AM.IT
A terracotta-hued ramp was the perfect cue of what was to follow – simple, straightforward and grounded fashion. With their Fall/Winter 2015-16 collection, David Abraham and Rakesh Thakore have proved that the conversation surrounding textile and sustainability doesn’t have to be boring or unsexy. They scored old X-rays from AIIMS and used their dark iridescence… Continue reading #ELLEReview: Abraham & Thakore
JJ Valaya’s Bolshoi Bazaar collection showed us what matryoshka dolls might look like in lehengas – with tinted lips, super-blushed cheeks and fluttery lashes. The inspiration? Bits and bobs from Russia, like the Czar’s jewels, ikats, and the onion domes of Moscow. One spotted embroidered peplum tops, appliqué lehengas, tulle veils and layered tulle skirts,… Continue reading #ELLEReview: JJ Valaya
Rajesh Pratap Singh doesn’t do shocking, but surprise you, he might. He opened AIFW yesterday with a set that was almost too Instagram-able. Cold metal beds, IV drips, stark white sheets, first aid boxes on the seats; all indicative of the mood – hospital-chic. The first model walked out (rather, twitched) to the angsty tunes… Continue reading #ELLEReview: Rajesh Pratap Singh
Word on the street after the first day of Lakmé Fashion Week? The kids are alright. Bright new stars debuted at the Gen Next show – P.E.L.L.A by Priyanka Ella Lorena Lama picked Zen whites and volume as her running theme; Kanika Goyal mixed roughed-up denim with luxe outerwear; Kaleekal by Alan Alexander Kaleekal went… Continue reading The best young labels
