The weekend featured some of the 26 exhibits, from the nation’s most established designers in addition to vibrant new expertise, together with Rajesh Pratap Singh, JJ Valaya, Shantanu & Nikhil, Varun Bahl, Ashish N Soni, Bloni and extra, showcasing revolutionary approaches and silhouettes to supplies and methods. This yr additionally featured, for the primary time, 4 ladies designers with an fascinating tackle males’s put on: Mandira Wirk, Mahima Mahajan, Nikita Mhaisalkar and Nirmooha by Prreeti Jaiin Nainutia.
Sunil Sethi, chairman, The Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI), explains how the organisation, which has about 400 members from the business, works to additional the enterprise of vogue in India and guarantee its sustainable development. “We are giving people a platform to shine… And I am looking for people who want to experiment,” he says, including that menswear has been getting extra consideration, drawing extra younger expertise.
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Mandira Wirk’s assortment attracts inspiration from glamorous holidays and the yacht life.
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Models walked the ramp in Mandira Wirk’s vibrant, cheerful prints, in outfits crafted for seashore events and summer time holidays.
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Mahima Mahajan walks the ramp, together with the fashions in black, a transfer away from the cheery botanical prints she is understood for.
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Mahima Mahajan makes use of flowers and butterflies on luxurious textures in her new assortment.
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From placing males in shimmering corsets to creating lavish embroidery carpeted over geometric weaves on jackets, Nikita Mhaisalkar’s assortment celebrates the cheerful notes of Afro popular culture.
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Inspired by Nikita Mhaisalkar’s latest vacation in Africa, the gathering is a tribute to journey, that includes structured pant fits, bomber jackets and flowing trench coats.
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Nirmooha by Prreeti Jaiin Nainutia showcased deep indigos, pale crimsons,
and maroons, together with teals and earthy browns.
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Nirmooha’s assortment fuses denim, crochet materials, and delicate knits, symbolising each construction and
fragility.
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Bloni by Akshat Bansal
articulates its design variety by way of gender agnosticism and future pondering. This consists of exploring craft and surprising materials.
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BLONI’s assortment imagines what our bodies may put on, from experimental
silhouettes to revolutionary materials.
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With a palette steeped in deep greys and brown hues, Designer Sushant Abrol questions warfare, impressed by a charred piece of an plane’s fuselage.
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Although Sushant Abrol’s garments are based mostly on the combative kinds of navy clothes, from trench coats to bomber jackets, additionally they exude a way of hope with considerate particulars like kantha stitches that run by way of the gathering.
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Gaurav Khanijo’s intricate embroidery, appliqué, and androgynous tailoring entwine with wealthy textures, drawing from Rajasthan’s uncooked pure parts—scorpions, snakes, camels, and native artistry.
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Models walked the ramp in symbolic prints, batiks, ajrakh, and experimental textures in Gaurav khanijo ‘s assortment, which featured deep ombrés of reds, blues, and greens.
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Sahil Aneja’s line ‘Play more’ is a daring celebration of motion, power, and self-expression with vibrant, quirky parts.
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Sahil Aneja’s garments mix consolation with fashion, that includes dynamic
silhouettes, vibrant hues, and revolutionary textures.
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Flamboyant Manoviraj Khosla makes use of differing types of conventional Kantha embroidery and batik work on diversified silhouettes of males’s put on.
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From conventional Sherwanis
to bomber jackets, Manoviraj Khosla’s assortment focuses on how versatile conventional artwork kinds are on
clothes, particularly males’s put on.
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Dhruv Vaish’s assortment comes along with precision and quiet confidence.
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The assortment by Dhruv Vaish, in hues of white black and silver, contains shifting silhouettes and neat particulars.
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Siddartha Tytler’s moody color palette, with deep black, teal, and navy is damaged up with streaks of silver in tailor-made fits softened with drapes, outsized jumpers and fluid hakama pants.
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Twilight meets Fifty Shades of Grey, and Gothic grunge meets precision tailoring at Siddartha Tytler’s present, the place angular fashions with slicked again hair and aggressive silver face equipment stroll round a roaring fireplace.
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Ashish Soni‘s ‘Less is More’ philosophy ends in flawless strains, clear cuts and one eye on the right end.
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In this assortment by Ashish Soni, elaborations are used with restraint, if in any respect, to focus on type leading to basic and timeless clothes.
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Rajesh Pratap Singh’s theatrical present was a tribute to biker tradition, with males on bikes circling a roaring fireplace, whereas fashions walked round them.
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Rajesh Pratap Singh stands as an artisanal model with deep Indian roots and understated strategy to luxurious.
Published – February 21, 2025 04:42 pm IST
