ELLE: What was inspiration behind your collection ‘Chiaroscuro’?Nachiket Barve: Light and shadow were primarily the inspiration, but apart from that we were also talking about Hitchcockian elements, gothic architecture, medieval art, where darker elements were used in a more glamorous light. ELLE: How did you interpret this inspiration onto the garments?NB: We experimented with a… Continue reading Backstage with Nachiket Barve
The queen of prints Masaba, is back! “This season I’ve tried to find different techniques of rendering where we’ve used methods that (painters like) Tyeb Mehta, SH Raza and MF Husain have used. We tried to create canvases where each garment looked like a painting,” says Masaba Gupta about her newest collection to be featured… Continue reading First Look: Masaba for Lakmé Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2015
Siyāh, the collection by am:pm is inspired by the Mughal era – the architecture and craft of the time inspired Ankur and Priyanka Modi most. “The architectural inspiration came from the Islamic influence of that era. For the craft we went to a place in Punjab called Hoshiarpur, and worked with the wood (sheesham or… Continue reading First look: am:pm for Lakmé Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2015
Two young designers – Kriti Tula and Shivangi Sahni – have managed to meet their target and raise Rs 1,00,000 each via Ketto.org, a crowdfunding platform. Tula is a graduate of Pearl Academy of Fashion, with a masters in Design Management from the London College of Fashion. Incidentally, she’s also been mentored by Nitin Bal Chauhan. Her label, Doodlage, focuses majorly… Continue reading Gen Next designers successfully crowdfund their collection
Designer Payal Singhal’s new line, Mayaa, was inspired by something wholly unexpected. “I stumbled upon a few pieces of jewellery from the Sumerian and Mesopotamian civilisations. The workmanship was beautiful and I was intensely fascinated. We’ve decoded those, and worked them into Indian embroidery,” says Singhal. What about the prints we’ve come to expect of… Continue reading First look: Payal Singhal and Nimrat Kaur for Lakmé Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2015
Veteran designer Ritu Kumar’s forthcoming showcase ‘Varanasi Weaves’, for Lakmé Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2015, aims to revive handloom weaves. The show will be presented against a dramatic backdrop of an audio-visual project, recently shot in Varanasi. “My aim was to use rich Indian textiles to their full potential. The Banarasi weave is India’s USP and we… Continue reading First look: Ritu Kumar for Lakmé Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2015
Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla have returned to the runway, and how! The designers are all set to open Lakmé Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2015 with their show titled ‘Jawani Jaaneman’. And if we had to describe it in a word it’s: retro. Even the playlist is in sync; it goes from ‘Funky Town’ to ‘Jawani Jaaneman’.… Continue reading First look: Abu Jani & Sandeep Khosla for Lakmé Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2015
Designer Arpita Mehta’s line for Lakmé Fashion Week, titled The Golden Hour, is suitably festive. Mehta has used colours like dull gold, black, vermillion and emerald, and she’s employed a mix of intricate mirrorwork. You’ll also spot interesting fringe details and suede appliqué on raw silk, tabi silk and silk chiffons. For the campaign –… Continue reading First look: Arpita Mehta for Lakmé Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2015
Lakmé is extending its Sculpt concept to the runway again. And this time designer Gaurav Gupta has been chosen to close Lakmé Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2015. “It is an honour to be chosen as the grand finale designer for India’s premier fashion event. I am excited to be celebrating my 10-year journey in fashion by… Continue reading Gaurav Gupta for Lakmé Fashion Week’s grand finale
The runway is where the show comes together, but backstage amid all the madness, between all the changes and various stages of make-up is where it really takes shape. But if the models struggle with frayed nerves and short fuses they simply don’t betray it. At Lakmé Fashion Week our photographer had a free run… Continue reading Backstage at Lakme Fashion Week
Suneet Varma will be showing his Spring Couture 2015 line at LFW this evening. And it takes inspiration from all parts of India. In the collection titled Decorative Arts of India, you’ll find mirror work from Gujarat, bright hues of fuchsia and magenta from Rajasthan, and also, shades of ivory and aari embroidery. You wont… Continue reading Check out Suneet Varma’s latest collection
Jabong.com‘s Miss Bennett London line looks promising, and definitely something that should stay on your radar. The designer, Natalie Jolliffe, is clearly looking to catch ’em young – with trendy T-shirts, crop tops, and skater dresses. The collection will be shown in a few hours at Lakmé Fashion Week Summer/Resort 2015, with Shraddha Kapoor wearing… Continue reading 10 best pieces from Miss Bennett London
“It’s nice to speak about an issue like gender violence at a platform like fashion week,” says Manish Malhotra. On March 18, Malhotra presents his Blue Runway collection at Lakmé Fashion Week Summer/Resort 2015 in Mumbai, in association with WEvolve. To bring you up to speed: it’s a global campaign with partners like the World… Continue reading First look: Manish Malhotra’s Summer/Resort 2015 line
