CRACKED | AUTUMN WINTER 2014

“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in”

-Leonard Cohen 

431-88 by Shweta Kapur was started in 2012 with the idea of bringing sportswear inspired classy and luxurious RTW in Indian Fashion Industry. Shweta, who has worked with Fashion houses like Burberry Prosum and Abu Jani & Sandeep Khosla, presented a very autumn-winter collection on the 4^th day of Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week.

“Yes we are not a fan of uncomplicated things. And we don’t really like technology.”- My village’s press release.

Rimzim took inspiration for My village’s FW 14 collection from the famous Ikat weave of Gujarat, Patola and played with chevrons and geometric floral patterns. Her brand, best known for unusual surface techniques and beautifully moulded unconventional material, had shredded chiffon strips, which were twisted into cord. The cords were cut into different sizes and attached together to create interesting patterns. The construction was done by beautifully sewing the color- blocked cords together.

The collection included Blotch cord skirt, mix cord sari with woven cord blouse, cord appliques Tee-shirt, woven leather trench, chiffon diamond patterned shirt dress, and leather cord sari with jersey blouse.

Fashion Design Council of India has recently announced the schedule for the 23^rd edition of Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week. The five day fashion week starts from March 26-30,2014 at Hall no,18, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.

Wool mark Prize 2014 winner

Modern approach to traditional textile of West Bengal, Jamdani

Jamdani is an ancient finely hand woven muslin like textile, with floral or geometrical patterns.

Hand embroidered Jackets and dresses

Bandhani, another textile’s tie-and-dye jersey long dress

White to blues and orange colour story

Asymmetric cuts

 tea party set

Loose and comfortable silhouettes

Indian Organic textiles

Black and white collection with highlights of flirty pink

Checks, Polka dots, Glittery shoes, Lace and white and pink embroideries

And

Cup Cakes in the end!