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The wait is finally over.
Tonight, 11 designers from Calcutta, Delhi and Mumbai will
unveil their latest collections at the Stylefile Winter
Show 2006. The open-air fashion gala at the Sunderbans,
ITC Sonar Bangla Sheraton & Towers, has The Telegraph
as media partner.
Calcutta designer Anamika
Khanna has created a new line “specially for Stylefile”.
The collection, she says, is “dramatic and experimental”.
The shapes are varied — from
coats to longer dresses — and the silhouettes are basically
Indian but styled in a Western manner. “The collection
is over-the-top by my standards,” smiles Anamika, known
for her understated elegant designs.
With lots of volume and lots
of colour, the pieces, in Anamika’s signature style,
will boast international elements. The colour story begins
from ivory and beige and moves on to black.
“There is a dose of shimmer,
too. And gold features in the collection, sometimes as detailing
on cuffs and sometimes in a bigger, bolder way,” signs
off the designer with a studio on Outram Street.
Black beauty
An eclectic mix of influences
from the world over — the Stylefile Winter Show 2006 tonight
is about this and much more.
For Delhi-based young designer
Vivek Narang, who will showcase a winter party line on the
ITC Sonar Bangla Sheraton & Towers ramp, the inspiration
comes from central Asia.
“I have drawn inspiration
from Suzani, a textile form of central Asia, specifically
from Bukhara and Uzbekistan,” says Vivek.
Cotton thread embroidery on
raw silk is the defining look. “The look is very simple
and minimalist, almost Zen-like. I hope it works for Calcutta,”
adds Vivek.
The silhouettes are narrow,
straight and fitted, “sexy without being body-revealing
or vulgar”. There are dresses — long and flowy cocktail
ones, coats and sherwanis.
The line is all-black, in
keeping with the New Year party hue.
“Black somehow has become
the New Year uniform the world over and hence I decided
to do an all-black line for Stylefile. It’s a winter
line, though there are lots of sleeveless garments,”
says Vivek.
The show, the designer promises,
will be “avant garde”.
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