Amazon India Fashion Week Spring Summer’16 – The Wedding Touch!

• By WeddingPlz
• October 13th, 2015
• Events & Exhibitions
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• 3 Min Read

Lights, Cameras, Flashes, People, Models, Ramps, Music, Makeups and Smiles all over!!! Aaahhh… That is something people start waiting every year as winter knocks Delhi. Yes! it is Asia’s largest style and trade stage; The 26^thAmazon India Fashion Week Spring-Summer 2016 in association with Maybelline at NSIC Grounds, New Delhi from Oct 7-11,2015.

This season, it had a remarkable list of 115 well-known style experts along with tenderfoots, from all across the nation. There were 30 runway shows reflecting what Indian young guns these days seek for, as the new style meets appealing genuineness. Celebrities like Parineeti Chopra, Soha Ali Khan Khemu, Deepti Naval, Mini Mathur, and Konkana Sen Sharma were spotted at various days in the event admiring their favourite designers. Weddingplz has covered the event especially for its readers and here is the day-by-day designers’ collection with their confident models walking in their creations.

Day 1:

Sanjay Garg: This show opener explored into the world of Mashru silk. He discovered 3 diverse variants of it in his newest collection–the gulbadan, with gentle floral themes; the danedar, in which hovers of cotton weft look like polka dots; and the ashrafi, a circular design brooding of antique coins, occupied with a complex V-shape design. Some touches of pinks, lavenders and redden kept the collection graceful and gusty.

Vaishali S: She is recognized well for her nimble weaves, exhibited a drape-centric collection that frolicked with asymmetry in colour collection, but scattered with blacks. Mild borders and tidy structures created magic on the ramp.

Rabani & Rakha / Vineet Bahl: The two ladies displayed cocktail wear dresses, frothy evening gowns and sarees in loads of white and porcelain blue, with bobble environs. There were 3D butterflies, tulle and lacework that along with sparkling cloths, made an impressive effect on the crowd. However, Chinese aesthetics came into existence through bead and bugle glass specifying on candy shades at Vineet Bahl’s ‘Through the looking glass’ collection. He showed assorted asymmetrical dresses, blouses and drapes with delicate fabrics.

Kavita Bhartia: She used the check design excellently. Ivory, gold, and silver shade with thread work and light weaves made a presence on Indo-Western lines in her collection.

For day 1 there was also Shivan & Narresh who presented beachwear, cruise dresses, ruched trikinis and bikini saris.

Day 2

Pratima Pandey / Rasa Jaipur: Pratima Pandey’s collection “The Melody Affair” was motivated by the famed painting-The Swing. Using traditional needle work practices like Ari, Dabka and Parsi; merging them with several material techniques on chanderi, she took the audiences into the imagination of weddings. On the other hand, Rasa Jaipur with his easy-to-wear attire collection used hand-block prints in diverse incisions and structures.

Dev R. Nil/ Samant Chauhan: Dev R. Nil’s collection “The Journey” represented creativeness from natural surroundings and presented bloomy prints with shattered check designs. Whereas Chauhan’s collection entitled, “Kinnaur Queen”, depicted muse from the first Rajput Katoch Empire, and Kangra Fort with basis outlined back to ancient Trigarta Kingdom. He offered Indo-Greek appeal through attractive drapes with hefty prominence on bead and Zardozi work.

Day 3

Next lined up was Virtues by Viral, Ashish and Vikrant as they showcased their collection stimulated by Indian Deities. The folkloric collection incorporated digital printed cotton and georgette coated front-open jackets with printed tunic and handloom chinos, handloom silk, printed georgette and brocade tunics, pants with chiffon dresses, sewed silk lehenga with in print blouse and dupatta, asymmetrical blouses with embellished drape skirts, etc. The colour vacillated from blue and red, gray to fuchsia pink, olive green.

Designers Anupama Dayal and Payal Jain were scheduled next. Anupama offered her collection entitled after her mother “Manjula”. The collection consist of pieces like off shoulder dress in red silk, high waist kaftan in hand printed stripes, long dresses in satin, aqua shirt dresses in stripes, etc. Designer Payal Jain’s collection was titled “La Playa Blanca” that personified the comfortable, glorious and free-vigorous daily life of the Mediterranean islands with novelist Anuja Chauhan as her showstopper.

Chhaya Mehrotra beautifully used handloom brocades in pastel tones to entreat Parisian chic in her collection entitled as “Bubbly In Paris”. Archana Rao with her celebrity showstopper Pernia Qureshi exhibited her collection Frou-Frou next in line which had womanly prints of fruits and delicate layers that signified cool dressing.

Moving ahead, Shalini James used pastels shades in her collection whereas Aditya Dugar’s collection was a pastel elegy to womanly dressing and the flowery thread work on the hand-woven cloths looked perfect for discreet summer dressing and for Poonam Dubey, hand-blocked prints acquired a summery turn in cool, appealing outfits with splayed skirts.

Finally, Anamika Khanna offered her first ready-to-wear line with a mesmerizing at leisure collection. White, blue and grey ruled the colour canvas with sarees, asymmetrical kaftans, jackets and trousers enclosing the show. 

Day 4

Malini Ramani: Tie and dye sarees were appreciated with an added dynamism of summer in her show. She drew her motivations for traditional and stylish creations from her journeys across the world.

Geisha by Paras and Shalini: The duo used western design making principles to re-create traditional Indian silhouettes. Both love to style in inimitable chic with a stress on silhouettes and gentle needle work to make a distinguishing old-world romantic look.

Day 5:

Debarun: Loads of colour block prints and polka dots demarcated Debarun’s collection. Kartikeya exhibited embellished jackets and gowns with sophisticated zardozi work whereas Siddharta Tytler’s the bridal extravaganza on ramp embraced of elegant golden and printed lehengas, shararas and gowns, with personalized Nehru jackets and Patiala’s.

16 Indian designers paid an honour to the delicate Art of Benarasi Weaves at the Grand Closing Moments of AIFW. Have a look at the designs :

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