I Feel Love
Forty designers, one mission ---- celebrate liberty, freedom and human rights as SC decriminalises Article 377, a win that saw reverberations on the LMIFW spring-summer' 19 runway. By Asmita Aggarwal ...
Planting Roses
From the city of the Charminar and Nizams, Anushree Reddys line Vintage Rose is far away from the Golcondas majestic robustness, but strapped to her heart as she celebrates femininity with khadi. By Asmita Aggarwal ...
Shadow on the run
Lucknows wonder Niharika Gupta takes on the onerous challenge of offering stitchless finish and updates classics in her label Notebook. By Asmita Aggarwal ...
Hunger Games
Dang and Sahni, two opposing personalities create a line that explores the chasm between perception and reality; summer and autumn; romance and rugged and culminates with clothing which shines at the altar of a tug of war. By Asmita Aggarwal ...
Little Women
Ranchi girls Priyal and Shreya pay homage to austerity combining fashion with emotions, poems and everything hand done. By Asmita Aggarwal ...
First Ladies
Power dressing for an empowered woman sans the trappings of glamour at Rig. By Asmita Aggarwal ...
Flames of the Chinar
In the shadow of war, with increased military interventions, frozen turbulence, comes a collection by Wajahat celebrating the lost crafts of the region that now straddles the delicate balance of turmoil and peace. By Asmita Aggarwal ...
Connecting Dots
Designers look at fashion through the prism of crafts while some chart a new plan with anti-fits and oversized silhouettes. By Asmita Aggarwal ...
Two-and-a-Half Men
Shibori, Ikat, Jamdani their loves are many but the boys from NID, Amit Vijaya and Richard Pandav are moving towards Bihar and weaving magic. By Asmita Aggarwal ...
Black and Blue Sari
The six yard drape may have been bruised due to the onslaught of gowns, but Prreeti Jaiin believes like the lotus it will stand tall. By Asmita Aggarwal ...
The Art of being a woman
Thematically fashion is moving towards an era where minimalism and comfort will soon overturn the need for flirtations with sequins and glamour as the fascination with sexy fades making way for functional clothing By Asmita Aggarwal ...
Life 3.0
Dadu creates new brush strokes with technology and paints a future of fashion with the unforgiving virtual world. By Asmita Aggarwal ...
Mapping the Silk Route
Roopa Pemmaraju works with Phulia artisans and courts slow fashion by creating hand spun luxurious silks and jacquards that will withstand the test of time this SS19 By Asmita Aggarwal ...
Bound by love
Australian designer Cassandra Harper makes a head-spinning U-turn from block printers of Jaipur whom she has worked with for more than a decade to explore the endearing ikats of Telengana, at LMIFW as the globe trotter, who has lived in Cambodia and Phuket brings to India a fresh perspective. By ...
Hand Made in India
If there is an apt synonym for Caroline Poiner it would be incredible, as this lithe Australian has provided livelihood to thousands of artisans, specially women from the most backward and poverty-stricken areas of the country with her organisation Artisans of Fashion. By Asmita Aggarwal ...
The silent world
With environmental degradation, plastics reaching Antarctica, Aneeth goes back to simpler times giving us a moving picture of underwater life as her show comes as a breath of fresh air both literally and metaphorically! By Asmita Aggarwal ...
Memory on Cloth
Jaipur succulent visuals and poetic candour can be seen in Swati Vijaivargies rendition of Shibori. By Asmita Aggarwal ...
Peaceful Paisleys
From the culture soaked bylanes of Old Delhi to the catwalks of the treacherous fashion world, Siddharth Bansal is an interesting conundrum of ideas. By Asmita Aggarwal ...
Denim by Design
Two fabrics, one man-made (denim) the other organic (Chanderi) meet to form a different kind of artistry in Amita Guptas narrative. By Asmita Aggarwal ...
The Republic of Bihar
Her cultural identity finds a place in her approach to fashion as Pallavi Singh celebrates colour through the leitmotif of festivals sans a catchy melody or frenetic beat. By Asmita Aggarwal ...
Who moved my cheese?
Akansha Maurya, a design student was not blinded by the arch lights of the modelling world, but saw it as a tool to be self-confident. By Asmita Aggarwal ...
Million Dreams
Small town girl from Modinagar, Vanshika Saxena, 19, hopes to make it to Milans ruthless catwalks. By Asmita Aggarwal ...