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Lakme India fashion week displays new trends, breathtaking
designs, and new designers on the block.
If the present appears dicey and the future
scary,
the past is probably worth a closer look. India may
be shining in the fourth year of the 21st century but
the India fashion community seems to have pressed the
rewind button. And chosen the 70s as their cantonment.
Retro is back with a vengeance which is clearly depicted
by the vanilla coke ad and the clothes presented at
the 5th India fashion week. With all such changes the
bottom line seems to be ?dig out your grandmas old saris
from the trunk and cut them into a knee length overcoat
to go with a long skirt.? Since the collections shown
at the India fashion week were designed keeping in mind
the international fall/winter season, whites were clearly
absent from the ramp. Only designers like Anju modi
& Pooja nayyar wowed the audiences with whites.
The 5th India fashion week re-introduced some hip and
?in? apparels like cigarette pants which are made from
flannel, linen, or cotton, these pants have pleats at
the leg end that can be pulled together with the help
of strings. Drainpipes, which our good ol jeetendra
jumped around in most of his movies generally, white
in colour. Skirts that are ghagra style teamed with
long kurti and corsets that still continue to flatter
those slim waistlines.
At the same time certain apparels were out such as
bootlegs that was omitted from the designers list, denim
that hardly made any appearance and lehengas because
skirts overshadowed them and lehengas never got a chance
to come out on the ramp.
Some trendy accessories that made a mark at the India
fashion week were big bags, bangles, stockings, old
metal coins and boots that are a must in the club circuit.
But despite all this of the 57 designers at the India
fashion week, only a few were able to strike deals with
big buyers because the designers looked more into the
past for inspiration instead of working on its own new
and creative style.
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