It’s All About Micro Bags!

 Cara Delevingne showcasing a FENDI micro bag

For Spring/Summer 2015 FENDI launches the micro bags, a modern and quirky interpretation of two iconic bags of the Maison, the Peekaboo and the Baguette, in a unique micro version. FENDI micro bags are perfect for the modern urban dweller – for the woman who just carries minimal essentials.

Fendi micro bag

Fun and compact, these bags are versatile at the same time. They can be worn either as a clutch with an evening gown or cross body during the day, as all of them feature a long strap.

FENDI micro bag

FENDI embraces irony and plays with aesthetics, proportion and colour, never sacrificing quality and savoir faire. Micro bags provide a bold fashion statement featuring high craftsmanship ability, mirroring techniques employed in the creation of regular-sized bags in the atelier.

Cara Delevingne, Karl Lagerfeld showcasing FENDI micro bag

These pieces are perfect for the edgy woman with an eye for detail, quality and creativity. The micro bags are available not just in nappa leather but also in special variations, including ‘Bag Bug’ eyes and precious materials like fur and croco. Wear them alone or pair them with their regular size icons.

Dorothy Perkins presents Spring/Summer 2015

Dorothy Perkins

UK’s most famous high street brand Dorothy Perkins announces the launch of its Spring/Summer 2015 collection, available exclusively on India’s leading fashion destination, Jabong.com. The spring summer collection of Dorothy Perkins embraces the key trends for the coming season with a return to the seventies and Sports Luxe.

Dorothy Perkins

The collection will be available on Jabong.com for its discerning customers from March. Jabong.com believes in bringing the latest and best trends forward for the customers. The latest summer collection from Dorothy Perkins is inspired by the 1970’s.

Dorothy Perkins

The dresses are longer, the skirts are A-lined and the trousers are cropped. Materials are a mixture of textures with knits and crochet, leather and suede – the chocolate brown suede shorts and jacket are key drifts. These rich textures are combined with denim – one of the star fabrics for spring summer.

Dorothy Perkins

Colours are a combination of muted pastel shades with pops of coral and indigo. Soft ruffle detailing and feminine prints, which take inspiration from the orient, create a seventies romantic bohemian look. Oversized peasant blouses are teamed with button front denim skirts and bell bottom jeans, matched with high platforms and felt hats creating a classic seventies silhouette.

Dorothy Perkins

For SS15 culottes are in pink leather and trousers are loose and wide – creating a new elegant shape. A fresh and modern feel updates this season’s Sports Luxe trend. Clean, simple lines create the look for the utility nineties inspired collection. Minimal boxy, cropped jackets in a variety of fabrics and textures – from neoprene to sheer and mesh – mixed with the cigarette trouser creates a sleek look.

Dorothy Perkins

Asymmetric tops and tunics add to the new season silhouette. Colour for this collection is exciting with poster paint shades of blue and green. Colour blocking leads the way – whilst the all-over whites we’ve seen in past seasons have returned. Florals are big and bold and are on full looks – on dresses and across short suits.

For the love of denim conformist— Rajesh Pratap Singh

Rajesh Pratap Singh for Wills India Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2015

Designer Rajesh Pratap Singh presented a renaissance of denims at Wills India Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2015. He brought back the fabric in its purest avatar. Indeed, the magic of indigo paid tribute to the denim industry.

Rajesh Pratap Singh for Wills India Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2015

Edgy hand and machine churned embroideries, chikan work sprinkled together with pin-tucks, and patchwork jackets redefined the core of individuality. His collection was called ‘Blue Blood’ and rightly so!

Rajesh Pratap Singh for Wills India Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2015

The silhouettes flaunted clean, well-structured shapes and the outfits were styled impeccably by Gautam Kalra (celebrity stylist). Rajesh proved through his collection, denims are not fashion items, rather they are a necessity.

Rajesh Pratap Singh for Wills India Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2015

Both, the menswear and women’s wear outfits were at power with each other. Rajesh Pratap Singh is one of the most valued names in Indian fashion industry and his collections demands admiration.

Taking cue from Nouveau Prophecy—Saaj by Ankita

Saaj by Ankita

Designer Ankita Chaudhury explores different layers of happiness and joy through colours and this very thought is the quintessence of her label SAAJ.

Saaj by Ankita

SAAJ brings forth playful, feminine and eclectic use of colours. In her Spring/Summer 2015 collection at the Wills India Fashion Week, Ankita unveiled a collection that showcased ‘white’ and ‘gold’ in multifaceted avatars.

Saaj by Ankita

Crop circles and the observable symmetry of nature have been the fundamental driving force behind this collection. Natural fabrics like, jute, cotton, linen and flax have been moulded and embellished to create a symbiosis between the natural feminine shape and the sophistication of natural geometry.

Saaj by Ankita

Silhouettes have been tuned to a modern and urban chic attitude and the juxtaposition of materials ranging from metallic yarn to traditional gota adds an allure of luxury to the collection.

Good Luck Irani Cafe by Nida Mahmood

Good Luck Irani Cafe by Nida Mahmood

Style over tea and bun maska brings back memories, doesn’t it? Well, almost everyone who’s been raised in South Bombay in the glorious 90s gets filled with layers of nostalgia when they hear of Irani Cafes – some that have shut shop over time, and some that still dole out chai in bone China cups with a blob of maska (cream).

Good Luck Irani Cafe by Nida Mahmood

We all know of Nida Mahmood’s fascination with popular culture in all its whims and fancies and this season, she blended her love for the quirky with the ever-elusive magic of the Irani cafes of Bombay.

Good Luck Irani Cafe by Nida Mahmood

Her Spring/Summer 2015 collection, Good Luck Irani Cafe uses the old-warm, vintage charisma of the cafes through digital prints and dazzling colours. The collection unveils a stunning, bright palette, while experimenting with real blues reminding us of the dramatic heirloom china our mothers have been treasuring for years. Silhouettes are linear and super chic.

Sahil Kochhar playing with the quintessence of light and shadow

Sahil Kochhar with Carol Gracias and fellow model at Wills India Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2015

At Wills India Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2015, designer Sahil Kochhar celebrated dhoop and chaon (light and shadow) by bringing forth a lovely line of clothes.

Sahil Kochhar for Wills India Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2015

Kochhar impressed the crowd with convoluted detailing and beautiful garments. Heavy stitching on silk fabrics marked the essence of the collection.

Sahil Kochhar for Wills India Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2015

Through his work, Kochhar celebrated the Sholapith craft, native to West Bengal. The silhouettes ranged from flowy jackets to capes in lurid shades. And the colour palette was bright—orange, lime yellow, reds and white ruled the dais.

Creating magic with basic ingredients—Urvashi Kaur

Urvashi Kaur for Wills India Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2015

Urvashi Kaur’s Spring/Summer 2015 collection ‘Ziran’ digs deep into ethnic communities, wanderlust and incongruent cultural interests and journeys. Inspired by the nomadic folk of Xining, China, the collection focused on reusing classy fabrics like, malkha, khamir, linen with frayed edges, chanderi and matka, with the insertion of denims this season.

Urvashi Kaur for Wills India Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2015

The base colour palette remained indigo with occasional outbursts of ecru, black, orange, yellow, pink and turquoise. Subtle accents like, tassels, pom-poms, tapes and ribbons added to the eccentricity of the line of clothes. Also, for the forthcoming Spring/Summer season, Kaur introduced bags, shoes and accessories.

Urvashi Kaur for Wills India Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2015

Calculated placements of shibori and block prints ruled the dais. While the tie-and-dye technique spilled over from her previous collections, the silhouettes this time were easy and baggy in nature; slightly asymmetrical with a mix of kimono sleeves, culottes and palazzos.

Masaba Gupta created fireworks on the runway

Masaba for Wills India Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2015

With ‘pataka’ being her muse, queen of quirk, designer Masaba Gupta created rage at Wills India Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2015. The collection brought forth the zest and zeal of a ‘pataka’ coupled with a grand set up.

Masaba for Wills India Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2015

Models flaunted delicate floral prints and donned garlands made of fire crackers on their tresses. The outfits were mostly linear silhouetted; straight cut dresses flaunted earthy motifs of zodiac signs and embellishments like, splinters of diamonds.

Masaba for Wills India Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2015

Masaba worked with colours like, white, black and gold for her Spring/Summer collection; and, silhouettes ranged from saris to suits, and short dresses to long gowns with high slits.

‘Kalahari’ by Nachiket Barve—Wills India Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2015

Nachiket Barve for Wills India Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2015

‘Kalahari’ by Nachiket Barve is inspired by the austere, enormous, uninviting yet absolutely beautiful Kalahari and Namib deserts of Africa. His Spring/Summer 2015 collection at Wills India Fashion Week showcased checked fabrics of the Maasai tribe and beaded corsets of Dinka men in colour palettes replicating hues of the sand, sky and desert sun.

Nachiket Barve for Wills India Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2015

The line of clothes scrounged streaks of influences from Africa but not in a ‘typical’ tribal manner. In fact, the silver jewellery of the Tuareg people has been reinterpreted in frail beading; the beaded corsets of the Dinka men have been deciphered to wooden beaded embroidery on dresses and the neck pieces and checked fabrics of the Maasai also instilled stark influences on part of the collection.

Nachiket Barve for Wills India Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2015

The fabrics incorporated were shiny satin, jute, heavy silk crêpe, kota, tulle, chiffon, georgette, organza, chanderi, washed dupion, raw silk and tussar silk. Neutral backdrop often gave way to tonal embroidery and unusual motif placements took charge of the runway.

Nachiket Barve for Wills India Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2015

The silhouettes presented were front slit skirts, slashing, mid-calf length, palazzos, zippers, cutouts, safari shirts, transparency and draping.

An ode to Gulmarg Valley—by Payal Singhal

Aditi Rao Hydari walks for Payal Singhal at Wills India Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2015

‘Firdaus’ by Payal Singhal is an ode to the enchanting Gulmarg valley in Kashmir, where time seems to have stood still—where paradise is not a paradox. The designer charmed the audience at Wills India Fashion Week with her toned down, super elegant Spring/Summer 2015 collection.

Payal Singhal for Wills India Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2015

The underlying inconsistency of freedom that the valley doesn’t really have, to the feeling of elation in being there is captivating and invigorating—exploring this juxtapose is the collection with its monochromatic colour palette of stone and black done in silk, chanderi, organza and tulle in modern interpretation of traditional Indian clothing.

Payal Singhal for Wills India Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2015

The silhouettes brought forth were palazzos with kurtas, long pants with cholis in silk, crop tops, linear jackets, and saris sporting pine tree prints and small floral dots, and more. Bollywood diva, Aditi Rao Hydari walked as the showstopper for Payal’s show.