Pushing Japanese artistry with ingenious elements, designer Shehla Chatoor showcased Misaki (Beautiful Blossom) inspired by handpainted folding paper screens and the art of basket-weaving, leather interweaving, braiding and the Samurai warrior’s element of armour. She juxtaposed gold mesh fabric with blacks as well as other hues to create a collection that stood out in terms of creativity and ingenuity.
Alpha — “The One Who Commands” was the theme of Emraan Rajput’s menswear with select womenswear where he showed outfits in military browns and greens in myraid cuts and structuring. The collection featured overlapping button-down jackets, hooded tops, with flared tops for women tied at the back. Overall interesting, what it lacked was diversity and needed to be matched with contrasting separates to make it truly stand out. A brave effort nevertheless.
Sanam Chaudri’s Lady of Bano inspired by her grandmother was for every woman, defining her feminity and guarding her virtue. The collection featured quite a few standouts such as a gold on ivory number, sheer fabric tops, a Victorian-era cut jacket and brocade slim-fit pants,
Huma Adnan for FnkAsia showed a vibrant, colourful line that could be worn as separates as well as together to form a complete look. The designer is known to work with local ethnic rural artisans which gives her work an ethical fashion appeal and is a cut above the rest.
Finally, Everything but the Girl by Deepak Perwani put on the ramp smart menswear by playing with the jacket to make it a more popular fashion statement in a variation of fabrics, textures and cuts to wrap up the day.
The last and final day of FPW A/W 2014 will feature Faraz Mannan, Maheen Karim, Maheen Khan, Nauman Arfeen, Nida Azwer, Sadaf Malaterre and Sana Safinaz.
