With the refreshing onset of the monsoons, the capital saw a splash of exquisite designs magnificent grandeur at the India Couture Week 2014. A shower of both novel and traditional trends flew over the runway providing the audience with endless options to display exclusive femininity and elegance for their celebratory family occasions and weddings. Following are the most common couture trends on the runway this fall that left every one mesmerised with splendour and glamour.
Eclectic play with basic colours:
For couture wear, the first few things that strike one are the bright and loud colour palette that graces the outfit with the desired oomph and celebration. Contrastingly however, a handful of designers employed basic colours like off white, cream, white and nude for their creations. Full length anarkali jackets, net gowns with 3D embroideries, heavily worked lehanga cholis, traditional net sarees with sparkling heavy embellishments, Indo-western gowns with non-shiny 3D work and webbed designs, multiple layered heavy work gowns with ethnic doris, excessive embroidery on the neck and bottoms, summed up this dainty yet classy trend. Displaying sufficient enchantment and savoir faire of elegant ensembles, these creations reflected sensationalism and luxury. Designers Rohit Bal, Rimple and Harpreet Narula, Manish Malhotra and Anju Modi were the dedicated followers of this trend.
Urban contemporary:
Yet another attempt to sway from the conventional styles in the couture wear genre, a noticeable amount of emphasis was laid on keeping the garments more chic, quirky and dynamic. Intricate patterns, ethnic Rajasthani prints, elegant regional bulky bottom pants with sleak kurtas, dark stripes with overall heavy work embroideries, unique head gear, crop jackets paired with elegant ghagra cholis, classy skin fit webbed gowns, metallic finished jackets with fluffy 3D embellished gowns and very elegant and simplistic evening gowns all made it to look the graceful urban contemporary. Browse through designers like Manish Arora, Rina Dhaka, Gaurav Gupta, Sulakshana Monga and Varun Bahl’s collections for a visual experience.
Floral motifs:
Monisha Jaisingh’s 3D floral embroideries, on surface spectrum of floral prints and multi coloured hues of a full sleeved choli with a nature inspired lehanga gave a majestic spectacle on the runway. Meanwhile, Gaurav Gupta on the other hand came up with a wider continuum of vintage bloomy gowns and Japanese influenced jackets in with a lot of layering. Sabyasachi epitomised the trend with his 3D wine red embellishments and a crop top along with minimalistic use of colours.
High on embellishments:
No matter how dashing, sublime and simplistic one gets, the Indian tradition of heavy works and excessive embellishments for couture wear can never be overlooked. Likewise, designers Tarun Tahiliani and Shantanu Nikhil came up with a number of formal and Indo-western outfits that would exuberantly outshine one’s presence and light up the entire ambience. Besides, from Varun Bahl’s trendy crepe sarees and Rohit Bal’s anarkali jacket gowns to Sabyasachi’s marvellously layered lehangas and Rimple and Hapreet Narula’s white lehanga with a gorgeous net dupatta embellished with full chicken embroidery, the overall collections at the couture week were a modernised take on the otherwise traditional wardrobe staples.
