Lakme Fashion Week

A model displays creation by designer Rahul Mishra during the second day of Lakme Fashion Week. Some 75 designers are unveiling their Spring/Summer collections at the five-day event is scheduled to end October 24.

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Day-2 started with leggy models walking the ramp for the effervescent talents Jyoti Khaitan, Manish Gupta and Pallavi Murdia. Manish Gupta spawned an enduring collection with a much focused use of cotton Chanderi and georgette. His collection was an utterly feminine collection of short dresses beautified in the colours of pastel ivory, yellow and black. With not much embellishments Manish restricted himself to cotton tape designs and a slight tint of glitters here and there revamping the attires. His finale of two princess and Empire waist line black dresses, one of whose pleats were finely glittered while the other looked like princess’ attire with flair were truly a delightful watch!

Tarun Tahiliani- who also showed at the Delhi Fashion Week- showcased his Levi’s collection with the various designs of a conventional denim with Swarovski crystal embedded on them. The silver chains and crystals dangling everywhere were truly Tarun’s masterpieces. Even the denim Bermuda shorts with zardosi patch works had the glittery work on them.

Tarun Levi’s collection was undoubtedly the crowd puller. The finale had the gorgeous ‘Saawariya’ Sonam Kapoor as Tarun’s bride in a bleached white denim covered with jeweled chains and crystals. She sputtered with poise and model-like performance on the ramp and was a real stunner!

G Pia Fleming was a surprise. Glittery, colourful breezy dresses in off shoulder made quite a mark. Fleming’s collection was truly a fresh breeze of cut and texture.

Let’s not kid anyone here. Organisers of the Lakme Fashion Week might be pushing hard to brand the week-long fashion fiesta Mumbai’s ‘it’ event, but if the sluggish pace of the models, the less than chirpy PR people, the red-eyed media people and empty rows were any indication, we may actually have had enough.

And this was Day 1. With two fashion weeks having just gotten over in the national capital a night ago, people aka buyers, photographers and curious guests looked like they could not be bothered about any more cuts, colours and costumes.

In fact, the show that kick started the day and event was unintentionally an indication of the been-there-done-that times. Delhi designers Shantanu and Nikhil, who showed at Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week too, presented a collection of gowns, dresses and coats in red, black and grey that had, in part, already been modeled at the recently concluded Chivas Fashion tour.