At the recently concluded Lakmé Fashion Week’s Summer/Resort 2014,
designers Ken Ferns and Kunal Tanna took pant lengths to new heights this season. With shorts being at unusual unique lengths, designers’ didn’t fail to keep the look casual, unique and comfortable.With street style being this year’s theme printed shorts, using floral and light color palettes along with block print capris trended. This summer, go past your jeans and work with wonderful patterns and colors for your shorts.
Designer Dhruv Kapur is known for his astute fashion philosophy of being modern, astute, utilitarian, luxurious and sometimes severe. The clothes are functional, minimal, architectural and unisex. His collection this year dwelling on two characteristics of the modern human – duplicity and duality. Transposing these traits onto clothes that lie to the onlooker or serve a dual purpose. Giving an Androgynous feel, designers’ blurred lines and played with the space of men’s and women’s fashion. Floral prints, skirts, feminine collars and colors expressed androgyny is an attempt to move past social conventions.
Designers have their own theme and inspiration behind their
garments, these inspirations help them with the color palette and texture of the garments they make. However, fashion week seemed to sing the blues as designers eleven eleven, Sanjay Hingu, Nitin Chawla and Shyamal & Bhumika all seemed to work with the color blue magnificently. From baby blue to a deep royal tone, the spectrum of blue for men’s fashion came through this season.
A growing trend that is seen across the fashion world is the sockless effect. When it comes to casuals and semi casual looks, designers opt for a sockless footwear. That trend has been extended to even formal wear. Long gone are men’s suits that cover the length of their leg. A 90 percent length with a visible ankle is highly trendy adding a tad bit of informality to the garment. This accentuates the formal shoes that are either worn sockless or with ankle socks. Designers Nitin Chawla and Narendra Kumarshowcased a wonderful array of men’s suits with this very trend.
