Students to showcase designs in Lakme Fashion Week

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, February 15

Ready for their debut under the fashion spotlight, eight students from Inter National Institute of Fashion Design (INIFD) are ready with their designs to be showcased at the Spring Summer Edition of Lakme Fashion Week.

Adding glamour to something that is traditional and almost forgotten, fashion-designing students in the city are transforming local weaves into ramp collections. Believing that the traditional works better when jazzed up with innovation, the young fashion designers have come up with 14 concepts, high on fusion. Working with local weavers in “aari” or Indian zardozi work, blocks, tie-n-dye, dari and nala work, the designers have infused life into the struggling hand weaves.

Srishti Sareen, one of the designers in learning, has come up with a concept that uses a lot of mirror and “aari” work. She says, “I am working on resort wear, with light fabrics and cool colours, embellished with mirror work and traditional motifs. I am using the mirror work for belts, strings, neck pieces and clutches as well.”

Another young designer, Nikita Kapoor, working on a concept of tribal and gypsy art, has used a lot of blocks and dyes. Neelu Malik Gauri, head, INIFD, Amritsar, says, “We are happy that this is the first time that such big number of our students have made it to the premier fashion event. Their concepts offer futuristic fashion based designs on what is trendy.”