Lakme Fashion Week Winter / Festive 2011 winded up this week yet la fashion fever lingers avec la trends la designers showcased on la runaway. This six-day of fashion fiesta brings forth newest trends of vogue, designs, colours, silhouettes, beauty, hairs, attires, et al that take keeps la fashionistas geared up for at least another half-a-year. 

There were lots of modish drapes seen this season, Digvijay Singh’s drapes were la mainstay of la collection as they were layered over long et short silhouettes avec shoulder emphasis while Atithi Gupta’s attires were in geometric patches et side drapes.

 Wendell Rodricks’ collection was inspired by immaculate elements et purity of mountain water that was apparent from innovative drapes et Abhi Singh’s attires had sensuous drapes et extreme necklines. Swapnil Shinde had the sound wave interference that causes ripples which took form of folding, pleats, et drapes creating intriguing design patterns. 

Vaishali Shadangule’s drapes were used in a chic way for very voguish attire avec la crafts of India et Pallavi Goenka’s attires were marked by layers for shifts, drapes et cowls for dresses that made asymmetrical designs. Even GenNext designer Nikhil Thampi’s striking designs in la collection were la loose drapes for both ladies et gentlemen.

 The runaway saw a lot of innovative headgears too, Little Shilpa’s collection had eight a-la-mode headgears made from pleated ikat fabrics arranged strategically on la head in chic muted colours. The designer-duo Anna-Liza’s collection had chic headgears that clung to la body et had jumpsuits, minis, shirts et trousers avec strong colour-blocking in brown, beige, grey, black et white.

Raman Vij’s experimentation avec knits et yarns managed to produce a brilliant line of winter dresses et was innovative avec la headgears for la models that created a fountain effect. Wendell Rodricks sparkled la runaway avec transparent giant snowflakes that had models avec heads covered in transparent skull caps as headgears that signified the melting snow from la mountains.

 There was a dominance of prints too, Digvijay Singh’s designs stood out avec khatla embroidery et natural vegetable dyes et block prints et Sabah Khan’s dominant colours were shades of green, deep purple et olive avec checks, stripes et beige digital prints. Rohan Arora’s designs were corduroy avec block et screen prints while Pam & Arch’s attires in jersey et Lycra were in an assortment of unusual prints.

The silhouettes were predominantly bridal couture avec la fell of la winter et festive season that brought conventional heavily embellished sarees, lehengas et chaniya cholis. Along avec this modish yet conventional attires, in accessories Gold revived itself en vogue on la runway after a long season of cool metal popularity avec platinum et silver. La designers had used gold in accessories, jewellery, knits, lace et flowy satins.

There were fashionistas too seen playing avec their hairs, while some preferred to tie it up neatly et combined avec huge chunky necklaces et big ear-rings that went modishly well avec their a-la-mode attires. The stilettos were gone avec la wind, et back en vogue were platform shoes that suited la fashionistas this season. Some were bold enough to sport short hairs avec sarees, et some found unique places to gear up their chic mobiles too.