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20Feb2008
Indian fashion’s phoren trips
February 20, 2008
With so many of them being invited to shows abroad, they are globetrotting with their collections.
Milan, New York, Paris, Singapore, Dubai, Australia – name the international fashion hotspot and you’ll have an Indian designer, if not more, heading to do a show there.
The latest news is that Rohit Bal has been invited to showcase his collection at the next Paris fashion week. Is it the Indian sensibility clubbed with the international feel to our clothes that has the world looking at us?
Answers Manish Arora, who’s showing at the Paris Fashion Week this season, “Indians are making money. Our economy is booming and everyone wants a piece of the pie. The luckiest person today is an Indian and I’m just cashing in on that!” Drawing his inspiration from soldiers, the theme for Manish’s show is warriors. Ask him why and he shoots back, “Why not warriors? I wanted this theme to be drastically different from what I did last, which was pop Indian art.”
The debutantes seem to have made the right kind of noise too. Says Charu Parasher, who has been invited to the Dubai fashion week, “We balance it very well – we keep the international look in mind while holding on to our Indian design sensibilities.”
Milan, New York, Paris, Singapore, Dubai, Australia – name the international fashion hotspot and you’ll have an Indian designer, if not more, heading to do a show there.
The latest news is that Rohit Bal has been invited to showcase his collection at the next Paris fashion week. Is it the Indian sensibility clubbed with the international feel to our clothes that has the world looking at us?
Answers Manish Arora, who’s showing at the Paris Fashion Week this season, “Indians are making money. Our economy is booming and everyone wants a piece of the pie. The luckiest person today is an Indian and I’m just cashing in on that!” Drawing his inspiration from soldiers, the theme for Manish’s show is warriors. Ask him why and he shoots back, “Why not warriors? I wanted this theme to be drastically different from what I did last, which was pop Indian art.”
The debutantes seem to have made the right kind of noise too. Says Charu Parasher, who has been invited to the Dubai fashion week, “We balance it very well – we keep the international look in mind while holding on to our Indian design sensibilities.”
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