Going through oxymoronic and ironic ways designer Payal Khandwala is presenting her newest collection titled, ‘Sadhu and Samurai’ at the fashion week.

The collection draws on the subtle similarities and the definite dissimilarities between the two different yet same characters. The idea of the designer is to marry the gentle, carefree and frugal with the structured, systematic and ornamental.

Payal Khandwala for LFW WF12

The designs well interpret this contradiction as the layered separates are draped and wrapped alongside more constructed shapes. The palette embodies the origins of both the sadhu and the samurai with an arrangement of burnt orange, crimson and ochre, with coffee brown, charcoal, bronze and indigo whereas the silhouettes are long and relaxed.