Samant Chauhan is known to bring a lot of quirk with the themes he picks. I mean, remember the time when he turned the whole ramp into a snow desert?
But the opening show by the designer at Amazon India Fashion Week - Autumn Winter 2018, has been different than everything he has done in the past - the fabrics, the embroidery, and the theme. Devoid of colours, imagine life in monotone - black, white, grey. It's a life out the colourful comfort zone. And an Autumn Winter collection in monotones, we dig the idea.
The collection was an ode to absence of colour - what do you see when you look beyond the rainbow? In a shout out to Indian hand loom - the collection used cotton silk, silk thread embroidery (which we absolutely loved), and also silhouettes that are very different from what has been seen of the designer in the past.
The idea was to break away from the "monotony of black and white and see in its contrast, the world in its full measure", says the design house.
What was interesting to see was that not only in the styles, but also what transpired on the ramp was very unique. There were men who walked for the show - and they were not models. There were men of age who graced the ramp with their salt & pepper hair, class, and pizzazz.
It was a show that deconstructed ideas, not just ideas pertaining to the colour palette and the diversity (ironically) that monotones bring, but also of the sort of ideas that people have about high fashion.
The clothes range from low dresses, to gowns, to embellished jackets and kurtas.
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We are very psyched about what other 'decontructions' are going to come our way in the oncoming shows!
