Pearl Academy FirstCut
With fashion week just around the corner, everyone’s buzzing with excitement for all the new and emerging talent that is most likely to rule the shows. A platform for the old and new to contemplate on trends and start a discourse on matters of vital importance in fashion, the FDCI x Lakmé Fashion Week will be held from the 23rd to 27th March in New Delhi this season. We’ve curated our selection of some of the younger minds on the scene we’re looking forward to the most.
Two Point Two by Anvita Sharma
Also a winner at the Nexa presents The Spotlight for this season, Anvita’s collection titled Behind Closed Doors is inspired by the chaos that is born when the true self emerges. Her winning presentation was about the state of reflection that the pandemic brought out when humans were confined at home, and the selfless nature of humans that came to light. How, in the midst of turmoil, humans realized the value of camaraderie and had a leaning towards altruism. Her collection is an ode to that very faith and a reminder that hope, compassion, solidarity, and above all, love exists.
Alpona Designs by Soham Acharya
The Eden Garden is inspired by the beauty of nature. Soham views nature as a paradise, a place of exceptional happiness, delight and serenity, and has strived to incorporate that into his collection. The frame of Eden garden in the designer's imagination is full of earthy and antique backgrounds, with accents of bright elements like majestic flowers and exotic birds. The colours used in this range are picked from the warm shades of nature during its transition time towards dusk. Some silent geometrical textures are also added in the background in some prints to create depth in the composition. The designer has mixed silhouettes like breezy flowy dresses, free fall jackets, parallels, skirts and jumpsuits with some Indian contemporaries to create a global look, inspired from hand-painted flowers and birds. The fabric he chose to work with was cotton silk and techniques used by him are hand paint, hand embroidery and digital art.
Shriya Khanna
Her collection takes inspiration from Peter Collingwood's Macrogauze, which translates to woven textile pieces. Her ensembles can be described as delicate, layered, geometric, monochromatic and graphic. Her texture driven collection uses base fabrics such as silk organza, raw silk, novelty organza and novelty satin. Ombre dyeing, sublimation printing, digitally-cut fabrics sewn together and fabric scraps heat fused onto ensembles, are some of the techniques used to create her designs.
Dystopia’s Children by Pearl Academy
Budding designers and fashion students from Pearl Academy will have the opportunity of presenting their collections, at a showcase centered around the theme Dystopia’s Children, inspired by the youth of today and the art of disorderly chaos, rage and longing. The theme of their showcase will depict the youth of today residing in a world of terror, in the midst of global pandemic and war. Through their designs they endeavour to bring to the fore their generation’s experience of living and thriving in the present political, social and economic conditions.
Text Unnati Saini
Date 16-03-2022