With Autumn knocking on our doors, the fashion industry is gearing up to showcase their newest collections at the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week SS-2014. The design extravaganza promises to unleash the latest trends and push the proverbial style envelope. 113 designers will be presenting their cutting edge designs over 30 shows, making it a creative best.

The  fashion packed week includes the onset of the week by talented young designers, Anupama Dayal and Masaba and the display of designs by many more exciting designers.

Runway Designers

Geisha Designs by Paras & Shalini

Krishna Mehta

Namrata Joshipura

Pankaj & Nidhi

Péro by Aneeth Arora

Rahul Mishra

Rohit Gandhi + Rahul Khanna

Abdul Halder

Akaaro by Gaurav Jai Gupta

am:pm by Ankur & Priyanka Modi

Amit Aggarwal

Annaikka by Kanika Saluja Choudhry

Anupamaa by Anupama Dayal

Charu Parashar

Dev r Nil

Gauri & Nainika

Hemant & Nandita

Malini Ramani

Manish Gupta

Masaba

Nachiket Barve

Nida Mahmood

Not So Serious by Pallavi Mohan

Paromita Banerjee

Payal Pratap

Pia Pauro

Rabani & Rakha

Rehane

Samant Chauhan

Sanchita

Shivan & Narresh

Soltee by Sulakshana

Urvashi Kaur

Virtues by Ashish, Viral & Vikrant

Zubair Kirmani

Bodice by Ruchika Sachdev

Dolly J

Jenjum Gadi

Joy Mitra

Mrinalini

Niket & Jainee

Nikhita Tandon – Mynah Designs

Prama by Pratima Pandey

Rajdeep Ranawat

Ritesh Kumar

Surendri by Yogesh Chaudhary

Vaishali S

431-88 by Shweta Kapur

Ankyra by Priyanka Kakkar

Autre by Gautam Gupta

Josh Goraya

Niharika Pandey

Poonam Dubey

Rinku Sobti

The Next Episode by Shantanu Singh

Vedangi Agarwal

Verb by Pallavi Singhee

Stall Only Designers

11:11 by CellDSGN

5X by Ajit Kumar

Aafreen by Rakesh & Vandana

Abhijeet Khanna

Abhishek Gupta

Abraham & Thakore

Aditya Dugar

Ashish N Soni

Atsu by Atsu Sekhose

Bhanuni by Jyoti

Chhaya Mehrotra

Divyam Mehta

Easel by Neeta Bhargava

Elisha W

Indian by Manish Arora

Kartikeya

Kavita Bhartia

Khem by KHushboo & prEM

Kiran Uttam Ghosh

Monapali

‘my village’ by Rimzim Dadu

Mynah’s by Reynu Taandon

Nikasha

Niki Mahajan

Nimirta

Preeti S Kapoor

Rahul Singh

Ranna Gill

Ravage by Raj Shroff

Rimi Nayak

Ritu Pande

Rohit Mittal

Saaj by Ankita

Sahil Kochhar

Samor by Pragya & Megha

Satya Suman

Schön by Sakshee Pradhan

Shyam Narayan Prasad

Sonia Jetleey

Swapan & Seema

Taika by Poonam Bhagat

Tanieya Khanuja

Tanvi Kedia

Tarun Tahiliani

Vineet Bahl

Wendell Rodricks

Accessory Designers

5 Elements by Radhika Gupta

Art Apparel & Accessories by Shelina & Camelia

Caitanya by Jushmi Barooah

Felix Bendish

Janavi

Meera Mahadevia

Nappa Dori by Gautam Sinha

Outhouse by Kaabia & Sasha Grewal

Shalini Arts

Silverline

The curiosity of flawless design and craftsmanship was finally reveled in this edition of Spring Summer 14 at Milan Fashion Week. There was a complete shift in the type of women,Dsquared² show isn’t a bad place to start. Dean and Dan Caten created a fancy, sexy and sensual feeling. Their women today were all sexy, curvy, wearing miniskirts, hot pants, eye glasses and red lipstick – it was kind of sensational sensual arena of gorgeous beautiful girls. Dean and Dan created a showbiz feeling of a Las Vegas casino; vibrant orange multi printed orange lingerie with jacket, white hot pant, golden with black cheetah printed jacket, structured long jacket with denim peddle pusher jeans.

At N21 Alessandro Dell’Acqua showed a more easy and graphical collection, inspiring a holiday mood in a tropical island. There wasn’t a sarong to be seen on his runway today, and nothing water-ready either. Rather, it was his familiar mix of boy and girl: a boxy bonded leather shirt worn with an embroidered lace pencil skirt; a double-breasted blazer, one side of which was encrusted in a delicate swirl of beads. Alessandro is always fascinated with transparency and revealing lingerie which you can also find at today’s show. Floral digital printed shirt with black embroidered black skirt, transparent black embroidered skirt,and orange shirt top, crisp blue cotton poplin men’s shirt, just long enough to be a dress. The make-up was simple and the hairs were quite uniform, there wasn’t too much of accessory used.

Day 2

In the second day Max Mara which is more popular for its coat opened the show with a slip dress in double-face cashmere and a matching, faint gray hose and silvery sandals; most of the attire was in single color variation we can rather say monochromatic. It looked effortlessly chic on skirt suits and tailored coats over sheath dresses, as well as on more directional outfits like an oversize tee tucked into a long pencil skirt with suspenders. The materials used were very delicate and sophisticated mostly natural fabrics like canvas, silk and lined. The colors that dominated the show was beige, blue, black and metallic; the shoes and bags were very much matching color to the outfit. Overall making the collection a certain sophisticated understatement.

One of the most awaited show at Milan fashion week is Prada. This time she invited a group of mural artists to decorate the venue; she made a statement this time by saying “I want to inspire women to struggle,” she said, after a show that will be hard to beat as the season’s high point. Off course her life is very much an inspiration to modern generation women and that is what she wanted to prove, an intellectual voice raised through a medium of art. This season’s inspiration for Miuccia was tribal art and culture; many elements from street culture were also picked up along with the murals against which the show took place. Images from those murals were picked up for use on the clothes and accessories. The collection was very multi-color dominated colors were yellow, black, red and blue. Glitter and embroidery were used in the lingerie form on top of the dress; long socks, open sandals and bags as an must accessory is seen carried by the models.

At the Just Cavalli show Far East is the major inspiration but more specific can be Bhutan.It is obvious to see the Roberto Cavalli special digital prints, animal spots, trussed-up denim, and handkerchief-hem slipdresses follow. The show started with a stretch catsuit, then a long slit dress with v neck showing the bra, digital printed tight pant with a sport tight top, also there were plenty of cut out fabrics used and cropped sweaters.The underwear was always revealing and a feel of surfer girls peeling off their wetsuits as they emerge from the waves. The collection is surely meant for the super young generation.

Usually Ennio Capasa showcase CNC in Milan and Costume National is Parisbut this time he choose to showcase Costume National in Milan fashion week.Constructivism and architecture was the major inspiration for the show, it also gelled with an inspiration from the work of young conceptual artist GiulioFrigo. The jackets and dresses were very much playful of lines, asymmetric, proportions and deconstruction. The white asymmetric jacket with lapel in one side, a geometric inspired jacket with white leather bag with black piping, a more black attire of deconstructed leather jacket with black knitted skirt. On the other hand the show looked very neat and clear like usual Ennio’s trademark and a deep research with inspiration from art.

Designed by Alessandra Facchinetti, Tod’s Women’s new Spring Summer 2014 Collection was launched at Milan’s Pavillion of Contemporary Art. “This was the next step in growing Tod’s, conceived to tell the story of the brand and its style,” said Diego Della Vella, group’s chairman.

Facchinetti developed a polished collection that skewed sporty and sleek with a modern feel. White shirts with undulating vents were a foil for statement skirts: pencil thin with Fifties-inspired color blocks in white and burgundy; or voluminous and scalloped, sometimes punched or embroidered with openwork like velvety soft leathers.

The accessories were spot-on, as Facchinetti evolved the pebble-soled moccasins with playful fringes and leather scallops on the vamp. Sandals got a maxi-chain motif, and toes were in striking multicolors like the clothes.