The seven Gen Next designers, mentored by fashion expert Sabina Chopra, presented their creations at the Lakmé Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2015. Photographs: Hitesh Harisinghani
Shivangi Sahni brought in luxurious fabrics with thread embroidery and suede.
This one’s for that cold winter day.
Palazzos are here to stay.
Ishita Mangal’s silhouettes moved from stiff collars to pleated silk backs, cut-outs, crêpe skirts teamed with pleated leather trousers and long trench coats.
Titled Misprison of Treason, the collection included a police ticker tape as an accessory.
And a ‘blood stained’ scarf paired with solid woody hues.
Delhi designer Siddhartha Bansal presented a funky collection.
That shirt has a milk bottle print. Almost missed it, no?
A bare midriff white shirt is paired with a vibrant skirt.
It is kitschy fashion for men by Ajay Kumar, a NIFT Delhi graduate.
A wild colour story…
Will you wear it?
Designer Kriti Tula makes trash fashionable.
Titled Purge, the collection included patch work, knitted fabric strips from production waste and block printing.
The designer showed how industry waste can be used to create stylish women’s wear.
Cochin based designer Jebin Johny’s collection, KathaKubuki, was a combination of two dance forms – Kathakali from India and Japan’s Kabuki dance.
The stretchable outfits had fusion prints in bold colours of red, blue, black on a white backdrop.
It is gender neutral fashion for Charchit Bafna whose collection was titled Elakka Ice.
His or hers? Androgynous fashion anyone?
And then there’s this pair of women’s jeans with a quirky cut.
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