Roman look, abstract designs flare up the ramp

The Roman look and abstract designs dominated the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week (WIFW) ramp Friday evening as designers Surily Goel and the duo of Gauri and Nainika rolled out their collection.

With the background score of "Guns n Roses", models sashayed down the ramp through cut outs of door frames, wearing a Roman look complete with jute tie-up sandals and embellished headbands resembling wreaths.

Surily's collection in georgette and jerseys offered shorts jackets, baby doll dresses with boat necks, wrap dresses, tunics teamed with blouses, kimono sleeve dresses with coined bikini and halter twisted dress.

Priya Sachdev Chatwal, who walked the ramp for Surily, was draped in a full length dress with white and silver embellishments.

"My collection was inspired by the Roman and Greek look. It was a prкt collection, very cool and fun," Surily told IANS.

In case of Gauri and Nainika, the collection was inspired by Wassily Kandinsky, the Rusian-born artist who used georgettes extensively.

"We believe in a clean look with minimal accessories. What we did in our collection was to put blocks of colour together to get the desired effect," Gauri said.

The collection had voluminous, empire cut dresses, pencil dresses, halter dresses with asymmetrical hemline, hound-tooth wrap dress, trapeze dress and voluminous cubist pattern dress.

Indo-Asian News Service