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The 10th edition of the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week
(WIFW) kick-started Wednesday with Rajesh Pratap Singh's
collection themed on survival and simplicity that cleverly adapted
men's wear designs to create a women's wear line.
"The whole idea was to use a men's wear design style and cuts
to come up with a women's wear line," Singh told IANS.
Amid loudspeakers lining both sides of the ramp, models sashayed by
decked in the designer's collection, while attendees relaxed with
the breath-in breath-out instructions that served as the background
score.
The collection offered pleated short skirt dresses that reminded
one of the dressing style of tennis players of yesteryears. There
were skirts of varied lengths and styles, short pants, and capris
teamed with shirts with big collars.
"There is no inspiration behind the collection. It is based on the
theme of survival and simplicity as I wanted to keep it simple and
easy," Singh maintained.
In shades of cement grey, silver and navy blue, with hints of green
and red, the line also offered blouson blouses, high rise dresses,
evening wear, jump suits, tapering and stretchable pants teamed
with off shoulder blouses and shirts of varied styles - all with
floral, mosaic and geometric motifs.
While the designer extensively used white, his colour palate also
had blue, pink green, orange and red.
Singh, who brought up the grand finale of the previous fashion week
in March and who is otherwise known for subtle collections, added
shine and bling to his line this time around by using fabrics like
cotton and linen.
Indo-Asian News Service
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