Lakmé Fashion Week 2014 kicks off
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Pakistan’s top fashion designers Faiza Samee, Rizwan Beyg, Zara Shahjahan and Sania Maskatiya are amongst the 86 designers participating to showcase their collection at the prestigious Lakmé Fashion Week (LFW), in Palladium Hotel in Mumbai, from August 20 to August 24.
According to The Indian Express, the designers will mark their LFW debut with a grand show on August 22.
Sania Maskatiya displayed her latest collection, 'Sakura', which draws from the grace of the cherry blossom, the stark romance of the Japanese landscape, tea houses, turtles and treasure chests, all finding their way onto the brand’s design canvas.
The collection showcased an array of bespoke mixed prints and hand embroideries across a diversity of textures in cuts and patterns that are quintessentially Sania Maskatiya.
Rizwan Beyg’s collection is inspired by truck art and he has produced a fun and colourful collection for which he has received international acclaim. Madhubani paintings have especially inspired his focus on flora and fauna in this collection.
“There is more that unites us than what separates us,” says the fashion icon, who aims to highlight Pakistan's similarities with India through his designs.
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Aug 21, 2014 07:50pm
My daughter is all gaga about Pakistani designers and the material quality and finish ,welcome to India.
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Aug 22, 2014 01:58am
It takes a special inclination to love some of these 'creations' of clothing shown here that seem to be genuine copies of the work of painters in Pakistan who "decorate" mammoth trucks that ply over there. I suppose one may say that we have here a bizarre case of art imitating life!
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Aug 22, 2014 05:54am
Your work is commendable! Keep it up.... Besides, Shilpa, Shushmita & Jacqueline looking stunning!
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Aug 22, 2014 09:03am
Before hire these male models. ask them to hit the gym . get some abs.. otherwise don't display -
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Aug 23, 2014 11:56am
Great designs and what a wonderful show, but where would they be showing?
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Aug 23, 2014 10:19pm
@Akram Maalik
More importantly, where would they be wearing this?
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Aug 24, 2014 05:42am
@Fahd Siddiqui : Idea of fashion shows is not that everyone starts wearing the exact same design but there will be some designs inspired by these goes to mainstream at affordable cost.
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Aug 25, 2014 10:58am
@Ravi Dallas TX
Right. This idea of fashion has always been illusive for me. I have always thought of art as the true representation of society. This doesn't do the job honestly. It's a representation of but a few elite. Truly India and Pakistan are much different than what is being portrayed here. Think rural areas where the bulk of our people live...
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Aug 26, 2014 06:58am
@Fahd Siddiqui You mean elusive? Fashion need not always relate to those in rural areas. After all, it is the urban elite who are opinion leaders.
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Aug 26, 2014 10:28am
@Fahd Siddiqui : I totally agree with you that is not true representation of society.
For country to develop, we also need to understand every group and every company does not necessarily need to help poor directly. but if they excel in the field they work, it will help develop economy and benifits will trickle down to poor at some point.
In India when IT boom started, there were many voices n India asking what is the use if it does not help poor. If you compare, poor have lot more opportunities today than they had before the start of IT boom - because of this boom, there came requirement for more cars, more taxis, more mall workers, more service shops list goes on ...people did not even know there can be jobs like this before.
Similarly fashion industry is giving livlihood to lakhs of people in India - directly or indirectly, which is good for the country and its citizens,
Cheers.
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Aug 26, 2014 11:33pm
@Ravi Dallas TX
Right I agree with you (somewhat). I did not mean the poor but the rural population. Helping the poor was not my point. Rural customs, traditions, art, lifestyle etc demand representation as well. They are the majority and equally define the culture and fashion of OUR countries as opposed to the "imported" fashion of the few elite.
My only point is that our art should represent us and should not come up with a more skewed and more acceptable version. It should not be targeted for commercialism. Think of all the great artists, they represented their own times and so should we.
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Aug 26, 2014 11:42pm
@citizen
Yes I mean elusive, silly typing mistake.
And why shouldn't fashion relate to them? They are a sizable chunk after all. And I think what you said is debatable that only urban elite are opinion leaders.
Have you seen some of the handicraft in the rural areas? Have you seen the colorful clothing? Music! (Think coke studio) where is all that coming from? Our folk Heroes our literature and stories all told by the rural people... It is true in Pakistan and I opine that it would be much more in the vastly diverse India!
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Aug 27, 2014 05:19am
@Fahd Siddiqui Can't speak for all the countries in South Asia but in India there is something called art villages or scheduled rural art exhibitions and emporiums that purchase the latest in dresses from rural area. Of course these are more common in cities.
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