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At the Fall/Winter 2011-12 edition of the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week held earlier this year,abercrombie pas cher, Pankaj Nidhi widely used sashiko, a form of Japanese reinforcement stitching comparable to the Indian katha, as the base of their collection,abercrombie pas cher. At last year’s edition of the Van Heusen India Mens Fashion Week, Narendra Kumar made ‘Kagemusha’, the Japanese shadow warrior, his inspiration in a “fluidity-marries-structure” collection – read draped jackets,abercrombie and fitch soldes, pleated wide-legged trousers and kimono jackets. Also, shibori featured in the collections of Narendra Kumar, as well as Rajesh Pratap Singh and Shantanu Nikhil.
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Now, at the just-concluded Van Heusen India Mens Fashion Week (VHIMW) in Delhi shibori formed the common denominator in at least five shows – Zubair Kirmani, Krishna Mehta, Sanchita Ajjampur, ANKY by Anjana and Ankita Bhargav and Manoviraj Khosla,a&f.
Sanchita, in her Spring/ Summer 2012 collection, turned to Art Deco with a Miami reference. With a bright colour palette that comprised Venetian rouge, ocre citron, celadonite, lazurite, malachite, cobalt and azurite and vivianite,abercrombie femme, the designer turned to Japanese stripes and shibori to tone things down.
“Definitely, they have certain elements that if you want to incorporate you have to revisit with every collection,” says Sanchita. “And I might have looked at certain things for inspiration,abercrombie pas cher. This time I added stripes and checks; I haven’t done that in a menswear collection,abercrombie pas cher. So I decided if I’m adding that element I need to add that in where it looks organic and where you can get colours that are more muted, because I had to balance out the colours from Miami, which are really strong colours. Otherwise the whole thing is going to be too colourful and you’re not going to be able to sell it because men can’t go around in a whirlwind of colour.” Sanchita points out that the boxy silhouette,abercrombie, wherein the torso is manipulated to appear longer, is again from Japan. Zubair Kirmani’s clean line,From Japan,abercrombie, comprising a range of Nehru-collar achkans, jackets,From Japan, shorts and silk shirts, used shibori in interesting motifs on shirts and jackets. “For us as a brand, shibori has been in for four or five seasons; we’ve come into menswear with shibori,abercrombie,” says Kirmani.
The idea, he says, is not about following trend forecasts but about trying to get into something specific by taking something and improvising on it so that it becomes something that cannot be replicated by other brands. “The shibori that we use is intricate,abercrombie pas cher, painstaking and time-consuming. Japanese elements here came in the form of origami shorts and trousers as well as the omnipresent shibori. “We’ve been using shibori for three seasons now in both menswear and women’s wear. It’s an interesting concept to play around with. For instance, this time we’ve used it in linings, socks and even in the piping,abercrombie pas cher. So, yes, the inspiration is coming from Japan. We’ve also used origami pleating on trousers,abercrombie paris,” says Anjana.
“That’s how trends happen,” says Manoviraj Khosla on the spurt of interest in Japanese design elements,abercrombie. Khosla, in the collection that he showed at VHIMW this time, while retaining its sporty aesthetic in the form of cropped jackets and shorts, toned down the colour palette (it was a neon fest last year) by mixing pop colours with whites and greys. Shibori here was mixed with Indian tie-and-dye techniques and came on stoles and bags. “Japanese trends have been there even in the past. In this particular case, the tie-and-dye had an Indo-Japanese feel to it,” he explains. Permutation and combination are clearly the way to go,abercrombie.Related articles:
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