Lakme Fashion Week | Deepika Govind and Anita Dongre (Indian Textile Day)

It's pretty obvious by now - I loved Indian Textile Day at Lakme Fashion Week. It was great to see a new spin on Indian prints, cloth and embroidery techniques. Here are two more collections from that day!

First up, Deepika Govind's collection Pop Patola took a modern spin on traditional Gujarati weaves. The cuts were clean and the colors wonderfully bold. I loved it! My favorite pieces were: the black and yellow kurta/jacket (middle, first row), and the print blocked dress on the left in the second row. Also loved the pops of yellow in the bottom row's pieces! 

Next up, Anita Dongre's Urban Goddess took bright Indian fabrics and turned them into easy to wear pants, skirts, blouses and dresses. It was quite a pleasant surprise and a departure from her usual stuff. I like! 

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Lakme Fashion Week | Gaurang (Indian Textile Day)

Next up - another favorite collection of mine from LFW, is Gaurang Shah. This is my very first encounter with the designer, and it was love at first sight! The collection was richly detailed and very colorful, and used an amalgam of different textiles to create a very vivid presentation. The clothes reminded me a little of my beloved Sabyasachi, especially the printed blouses, but the similarities ended there, since Gaurang has a very different aesthetic than Sabyasachi.

I'm a lover of anything traditional (if it has a little twist, even better!), so naturally the brightly hued silk saris, lehengas, and salwars/churidars and kurtas had me sighing all over the place. Think deep peach, magenta, fiery orange, deep red, bright yellow, with gold embellishments and little peeks of green, combined with printed textiles in the form of blouses, shawls, and skirts. It sounds like a lot, but the presentation was perfectly restrained and never over-the-top. Needless to say, Indian Textile Day is definitely my favorite at LFW, and I will be on the lookout for Gaurang Shah's future work for sure!

Take a look! (And be sure to behold the beautiful Kirron Kher, who was the showstopper!)

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Lakme Fashion Week | Vaishali S (Indian Textile Day)

Hello readers! I apologize for the very, very long delay. I know I've neglected this blog dearly. I didn't post anything for so long because I didn't find anything that I was excited about. But fear not - Lakme Fashion Week is here, Winter-Festive no less, and I have tons to share with you all.

Without further ado, let's talk fashion!

First post is dedicated to Vaishali S, whose aesthetics I fell completely in love with during my first encounter. Vaishali sticks of her simple aesthetics, again using loads of Chanderi sari fabric, subtle embellishments, and touches of silk. The collection is laid-back, soft (in a good way and without being overly girly) and pretty much exactly what I love - Indian clothes with a bit of a twist. There wasn't a single piece that I didn't like! And I especially loved the large bindis and the pom-pom accessories!

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