Lakmé Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2018 celebrates Sustainable Fashion Day

This year’s Sustainable Fashion Day was a sight for the sore eyes, with a contemporary take on a lot of traditional designs and innovation in the use of fabrics.

Aug 24, 2018, 18:17 IST4 min

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RmKV Silks and creative designer Sunita Shanker unveiled a magical collection. The bespoke saris have been designed and crafted by taking inspiration from a range of sources such as nature, art and architecture. It was a line of garments that declared 'Tradition with a Twist' and the evolution of the Kanjivaram sari was the focal point.

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With ensembles that spoke of womanhood, ‘Vriksh’ by Gunjan Jain presented the “Yogini” collection that offered a range of experimental yet timeless silhouettes. Inspired by the “Chausat Yogini Temple” that has 64 tantric female deities of Odisha, the collection had immaculately woven ethnic saris that were raw and yet edgy in nature. Experimenting extensively with the blouses, each sari w

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Working with the the famed Ikat of Odisha, the Indigene label used motifs in the garments inspired by different regions around the globe. Believing in zero wastage, Indigene made use of textile leftovers and turned them into patchwork scarves as well as buttons and tassels for the garments.

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Working with Musiri, the small village in Tamil Nadu, Naushad Ali was inspired to create a line of garments that would highlight the beauty of the textiles created by talented weavers. Turning the very traditional weaves into western silhouettes, Ali used checks, stripes and Ikats to give a more abstract and colour-blocked effect to patterns.

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The label ‘Three’ by Pallavi Dhyani believes in the concept of immortal designs with a timeless quality. The collection visualised with the weavers of Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh, was a relaxed line of comfort wear called “Mute”. Using 100 percent handloom cottom, Dhyani gave the weaves an appealing contemporary touch. The very rustic, earthy, hand woven textiles appeared in shades of grey,

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Eka by Rina Singh displayed a collection which was an intense study of beautiful, raw, textiles and fashion. Eka’s special weaves were shown in the technique called “Kater Makur Kaj” from rural Bengal, which was created by expert weavers in the Nadia District Shantipur, West Bengal. The sheer fabrics were the common factor in most of the creations as they were layered over the more solid

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Collaborating for the second season with Tencel&trade Rajesh Pratap Singh debuted his Indian, ethnic, style collection “Welcome to the Jungle”. The garments had a contemporary twist to the Indian interpretation for Tencel&trade weaves and combined it with Indian crafts such as, Chanderi, Banarasi, Jamdaani, hand block prints and more.

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