Fashion Design Council of India announced the show schedule for the upcoming FDCI India Couture Week 2016. The country’s biggest style extravaganza is set to showcase 11 couturiers through mesmerizing 10 shows, including three offsite shows from July 20- July 24, 2016, at the Taj Palace Hotel, New Delhi.

Sunil Sethi, President, FDCI, said, “The five-day fiesta will be a spectacle of ebullient ensembles, grand sets and riveting concepts as well as off-site shows, by leading designers. It will be a tribute to luxury and will pen a new story of grandeur in keeping with the aesthetics of Indian traditions.”

Show Schedule  

 

Wednesday:  July 20, 2016 

 

9:00 pm          Manish Malhotra (Durbar Hall, Taj Palace)

 

Thursday: July 21, 2016

 

8:00 pm          Anita Dongre              (Shah Jehan Hall, Taj Palace)

9:30 pm          Tarun Tahiliani  (Durbar Hall, Taj Palace)

 

 

Friday:  July 22, 2016 

 

3:00 pm                Reynu Taandon

Rimple & Harpreet  Narula    (Durbar Hall, Taj Palace)

 

7:00 pm               Rahul Mishra   (Shah Jehan Hall, Taj Palace)

 

9:30 pm               Anamika Khanna  ( Offsite)

 

Saturday: July 23, 2016

 

8:00 pm                Varun Bahl  (Durbar Hall, Taj Palace)

 

9:30 pm                Gaurav Gupta (Shah Jehan Hall, Taj Palace)

 

Sunday – July 24, 2016

 

3:00 pm               Manav Gangwani  ( Offsite )

9:30 pm               Rohit Bal    (Offsite )

Without the virtuosity of its petites mains working in the secrecy of the ateliers, Haute Couture wouldn’t have its unique and incomparable brilliance. At CHANEL their expertise is deployed in two tailleur ateliers and two flou ateliers [tailoring and dressmaking]. Karl Lagerfeld wished to pay them tribute by dedicating to them the Fall-Winter 2016/17 CHANEL Haute Couture collection.

So, beneath the glass roof of the Grand Palais, the ateliers on the rue Cambon have been recreated down to the smallest detail. Tables, sewing machines, mirrors, pins, fabrics, multi-coloured threads, toiles and mannequins: the inner world of seamstresses is put under the spotlight and animated before the audience by the premières of the ateliers, followed by their seconds and the 78 seamstresses from the House of CHANEL which counts more than 120. “I thought that was a modern idea to make them participate. They should be shown too.”

This season the cut is defined by a sleek, pure silhouette. It forms the thread running through a structured and graphic collection. Beveled or angular cut shoulders, held with stitches create a “standing up” effect, framing a flat profile without any padding. The 3/4 length sleeves answer the 7/8 turn-ups hems of the culottes and wide-cut trousers worn over draped leather thigh boots. The tweed jackets highlight the waist with protruding pockets on the hips. Coat dresses and jacket dresses in tweed form games of trompe-l’œil. An ethereal hairstyle tied back with a grosgrain headband further enhances and blurs these strict and geometric shapes.

For evening, the silhouette is inspired by the work of English illustrator Aubrey Beardsley. While shoulders and hems of dresses are adorned with crests of feathers, the high waists, sometimes punctuated with protruding pockets, smooth the silhouettes. Dresses flare out over soft cages, almost tracing a pencil line. The fabrics radzimir, ziberline, mikado, taffetas and faille are joined by chiffons, crêpe georgette, organza, silk tulle, embroidered laces and almost transparent grosgrains.

The same refinement is reflected in the treatment of colour. Autumnal shades – browns, marron glacé, oranges, beige and greys – are nuanced and enriched with a palette of pinks, blacks and whites as block colours or woven in duos.

The exacting perfection of Haute Couture is reflected in the minute details sometimes barely visible. Thus linings of protruding pockets are reworked, stitching is spun with fringed spirals and braids are plaited with tulle and tweed. The embroidery of stones, matt sequins, beads and feathers are combined and multiplied endlessly to create enchanting flowers and compose neck straps. Draping alternates with bias cut pleats as well as accordion, cone, sunray and flat pleats. Articulated jewellery is transformed into frogging and precious cuffs.

The highlight of the collection is the bride. This season Karl Lagerfeld has imagined her in a bustier and trousers fashioned from lace, tulle and satin encrusted with strands of pink and white wool, and kept warm with jacket and train embroidered with feathers.

Tarun Tahiliani and Anita Dongre will showcase their distinctive collections at the upcoming FDCI India Couture Week 2016, from July 20-24 at the Taj Palace hotel, in the capital. Though the two designers have been associated with FDCI since long, it will be the first time for Anita and Tarun (since the event shifted toDelhi) to participate at India Couture Week runway.

They will dazzle the catwalk with surreal ensembles on Day 2 of ICW 2016. Tarun Tahiliani has always courted elegance without losing touch with traditional drapes, while Anita is known for her vivacious colours and embroideries.

Talking about the two, Sunil Sethi, President FDCI said, “Both Tarun and Anita will present at the FDCI India Couture Week 2016 this year taking the grandiosity of the event a notch higher. They have been influencers and trend setters in the fashion space and will present defining looks through their sartorial rendition of what a modern woman desires.