Showing posts with label Look Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Look Books. Show all posts
Untitled - Autumn/Winter 2010-11
'Each collection is like a lover i had for six months. It engages me everyday, reveals itself to me slowly….evolves and helps me evolve with it. It's like exploring a relationship. Falling in love with an idea is exactly like falling in love with a person…I love that period when love is fresh,young and naive…nothing brings more joy to the heart than being in love.I feel blessed that every six months i have a new affair , a new passionate engagement. Sometimes you leave some stories incomplete but in your heart you know that you will come back to them; sometimes the affair is passionate , fulfilling and burns you out completely and you just move on …looking for new lovers.'
Untitled
Varun Sardana
Autumn/Winter 2010-11
This collection is more about a mood than about a specific inspiration. This collection, for me, is like a walk through my dreamscape, a walk through the avenues and bylines of my imagination. Because the inspiration was so amorphous, I wanted to distill the collection into its bare elements.- therefore I decided to stick with a monochromatic color palette of blacks, with the only elements of color coming in with the accessories and makeup. I wanted the focus to be purely on the silhouettes and the textures without any intervening distractions of color.
The silhouettes for this collection have a definite form, adding to or enhancing the curves of the body. The look is strong but I have steered away from making the collection too military or masculine but have worked around a more tribal form of female beauty where the woman is strong yet maintains her femininity. In tribal cultures, women do a lot of hard physical labour, yet lose none of their earthy sexuality. I wanted to strike such a balance even with this collection.
From the very beginning, my initial idea for the show was to recreate a bare spartan space, devoid of any formal trappings of a runway show. I wanted the audience to feel like that they had stumbled upon a strange shamanistic ritual- weird, a bit intimidating and alien, yet inescapably beautiful. Therefore, I ripped off the ramp to expose the floorboards and removed all seating so that the audience had to sit on the floor and witness the show, just like watching a primeval ritual.
The fabrics for the collection are Italian wools, Felt and Silk. I have explored many forms of surface texturing with felt, using hand cut and hand appliqued forms. I prefer working with basic fabrics and applying various hand surface techniques to them to transform their character. All the final fabrics have been developed in-house using age-old hand-craft techniques and new age forms. All the surface explorations are in 3-D adding a new dimension and shape to the garments.
The Grammar of Seeing - Spring/Summer'09
Jack can see he sees
What he can see Jill can’t see
And he can see
That Jill can’t see that she can’t see
But he cant see WHY
Jill cant see that Jill can’t see
R.D. Liang (Knots)
Inspiration
Child’s Play – Spring/Summer 2009
‘Imagination is as necessary in geometry as it is in poetry’- Alexander Pushkin
As children, all of us have played at folding sheets of paper to create objects from our
imagination. The act of transforming a lifeless sheet of paper to a boat or an airplane or
an animal or anything else that we can imagine was always magical for me. This
collection is inspired by that act of transformation- when your imagination and your
ingenuity come together to create something that existed only as a potential in that piece
of paper. My collection is filled with that childlike glee in expressing your imagination,
the dashes of color, the smattering of sequins and origami paper folds translated into
fabric. I have tried to fuse together the rigid forms of origami into softer silhouettes trying
to break the sharp geometry of the folds.
My concepts for the collection are directly inspired by the work of a modern genius in the
art of Origami –Dr Robert J Lang, American physicist and world’s foremost origami
theorist. The way he transforms a single sheet of uncut paper mixing the age old methods
of paper folding with lasers and high-tech software to create beautiful magical objects is
truly awe inspiring. My work too speaks the same ethos- the fusion of age old techniques
of hand embroidery and hand block printing interpreted with a very modern expression to
produce contemporary silhouettes. All the silhouettes are fitted and body conscious,
highlighting the contours of the body or adding curves where there are none. The mood
of the collection is very playful, drawing on the carefree and imaginative days of
childhood.
What he can see Jill can’t see
And he can see
That Jill can’t see that she can’t see
But he cant see WHY
Jill cant see that Jill can’t see
R.D. Liang (Knots)
Inspiration
Child’s Play – Spring/Summer 2009
‘Imagination is as necessary in geometry as it is in poetry’- Alexander Pushkin
As children, all of us have played at folding sheets of paper to create objects from our
imagination. The act of transforming a lifeless sheet of paper to a boat or an airplane or
an animal or anything else that we can imagine was always magical for me. This
collection is inspired by that act of transformation- when your imagination and your
ingenuity come together to create something that existed only as a potential in that piece
of paper. My collection is filled with that childlike glee in expressing your imagination,
the dashes of color, the smattering of sequins and origami paper folds translated into
fabric. I have tried to fuse together the rigid forms of origami into softer silhouettes trying
to break the sharp geometry of the folds.
My concepts for the collection are directly inspired by the work of a modern genius in the
art of Origami –Dr Robert J Lang, American physicist and world’s foremost origami
theorist. The way he transforms a single sheet of uncut paper mixing the age old methods
of paper folding with lasers and high-tech software to create beautiful magical objects is
truly awe inspiring. My work too speaks the same ethos- the fusion of age old techniques
of hand embroidery and hand block printing interpreted with a very modern expression to
produce contemporary silhouettes. All the silhouettes are fitted and body conscious,
highlighting the contours of the body or adding curves where there are none. The mood
of the collection is very playful, drawing on the carefree and imaginative days of
childhood.
A Quaint Little Town - Fall/Winter 2008
'All my clothes have had other people in them'
Charles Baudelaire described walking down the streets in Paris in the 1850s as an adventure, more dramatic than any play, richer in ideas than any book. He suggested that one should aim to become a flâneur (a stroller or a saunterer). Flâneurs don't have any practical goals in mind, aren't walking to get something, or to go somewhere. What flâneurs are doing is looking. Opening their eyes and ears to the scene around them, wondering about the lives of those they pass, constructing narratives about the houses, eavesdropping on conversations, studying how people dress and street life in general. Flâneurs relish what they discern and discover. This is the mood of my collection.
I am constantly fascinated by people around me and observing their idiosyncrasies. I would always make up fantastical stories in my head about the strangers I would see everyday at the traffic lights on my way to work.
'A Quaint Little Town' is a representation of my own construction of reality. It's based on a fictional town peopled by characters inspired by people I have known in my life. It's a vision of my own ideal world which is quirky, slightly dysfunctional but beautiful as a whole.
This dichotomy is reflected in the collection which seeks to marry many contrary elements. I have worked towards redefining the notion of beauty and form with garments shaping the body rather than the other way around. The garments add new contours and dimensions to the body providing a new perspective. There are many diverse elements in the collection – a mix of prints and textures, the use of sequins and grid patterns, the use of sportswear elements in evening wear and the use of origami elements. I have used a lot of traditional handloom fabrics with modern knits and wools fusing the old and the new worlds together. I have strived to break the monotony of tessellation patterns through the use of texture and techniques of hand block printing. The collection also incorporates many weave patterns like the argyle reinterpreted by duplicating them with embroidery.
This collection also showcases the launch of my menswear which seeks to reinterpret classic menswear silhouettes with the use of unconventional fabrics and surface treatments. It is a highly personalized expression of style with which is not restricted by conventional definitions of what's beautiful
Design Philosophy
I always like to look for my ideas among the boring and the mundane. I like to pick up elements from things we are so used to seeing everyday that we have become immune to them and giving a new definition to them. I am obsessed with playing with detailing, whether it is multiple ways of using buttons or placing seams or fusing different fabrics together. It's the interplay of opposites that interests me and my garments always aspire to escape the definitions that bind them- whether it is the use of embellishment to transform relaxed silhouettes or the use of menswear detailing in feminine shapes. I am not very trend motivated, I feel my clothes should have a character that is inherent and not defined by either local aesthetic or global trends. My clothes are for confident men and women who are comfortable in their skin and who are not looking for external validation.
Charles Baudelaire described walking down the streets in Paris in the 1850s as an adventure, more dramatic than any play, richer in ideas than any book. He suggested that one should aim to become a flâneur (a stroller or a saunterer). Flâneurs don't have any practical goals in mind, aren't walking to get something, or to go somewhere. What flâneurs are doing is looking. Opening their eyes and ears to the scene around them, wondering about the lives of those they pass, constructing narratives about the houses, eavesdropping on conversations, studying how people dress and street life in general. Flâneurs relish what they discern and discover. This is the mood of my collection.
I am constantly fascinated by people around me and observing their idiosyncrasies. I would always make up fantastical stories in my head about the strangers I would see everyday at the traffic lights on my way to work.
'A Quaint Little Town' is a representation of my own construction of reality. It's based on a fictional town peopled by characters inspired by people I have known in my life. It's a vision of my own ideal world which is quirky, slightly dysfunctional but beautiful as a whole.
This dichotomy is reflected in the collection which seeks to marry many contrary elements. I have worked towards redefining the notion of beauty and form with garments shaping the body rather than the other way around. The garments add new contours and dimensions to the body providing a new perspective. There are many diverse elements in the collection – a mix of prints and textures, the use of sequins and grid patterns, the use of sportswear elements in evening wear and the use of origami elements. I have used a lot of traditional handloom fabrics with modern knits and wools fusing the old and the new worlds together. I have strived to break the monotony of tessellation patterns through the use of texture and techniques of hand block printing. The collection also incorporates many weave patterns like the argyle reinterpreted by duplicating them with embroidery.
This collection also showcases the launch of my menswear which seeks to reinterpret classic menswear silhouettes with the use of unconventional fabrics and surface treatments. It is a highly personalized expression of style with which is not restricted by conventional definitions of what's beautiful
Design Philosophy
I always like to look for my ideas among the boring and the mundane. I like to pick up elements from things we are so used to seeing everyday that we have become immune to them and giving a new definition to them. I am obsessed with playing with detailing, whether it is multiple ways of using buttons or placing seams or fusing different fabrics together. It's the interplay of opposites that interests me and my garments always aspire to escape the definitions that bind them- whether it is the use of embellishment to transform relaxed silhouettes or the use of menswear detailing in feminine shapes. I am not very trend motivated, I feel my clothes should have a character that is inherent and not defined by either local aesthetic or global trends. My clothes are for confident men and women who are comfortable in their skin and who are not looking for external validation.
Look Book A/W 2008
Alice in Blunderland
As a girl, Alice loved to daydream. Lost in her dreams she would stumble about life, tripping on every step and falling into every puddle. While all the girls in school swooned over their pedigree lapdogs, she house trained a goat. She finally managed to get through typing school and spends her life mistyping government forms while dreaming of running away somewhere with her goat.
The Recluse
She was one of the local Casanova's early victims. Barely in her teens, she couldn't take the heartbreak and resolved never to love again. She began to shun all company and lived with books as her only companion. She lives her life in the maze of the many plots that unfurled everyday from the many books she read with no tabs on the real world outside her doorstep.
The Witch
A successful fashion editor in search for the secret of eternal youth stumbles upon the closely guarded art of witch craft. She manages to find the elixir of youth but finds herself unable to step out in the sunlight and spends all her time under the glare of the spotlights trying to recreate the feeling of the sun on her face.
The Cam-whore
A beauty queen obsessed with finding the perfect dress, finally finds the dress of her dreams. She hounds all the photographers in town dying to be preserved for all eternity in that dress. The night before the shoot, she sleeps in the dress, unable to stay one moment without the dress next to her skin. She wakes up and expectantly faces the mirror to ready for her big shot, only to find out that she's become a man. 'Damn I'm ugly' she thinks, "but the dress still looks fabulous!'
Mr. and Mr. Rainbow
Mr. A meets Mr. B at the departmental store. They check each other out while testing the firmness of the Spanish tomatoes. Their eyes speak volumes and world move, drawing them together. They go from the fresh vegetables to the produce to the frozen foods, silent but still in conversation. Will they check out together?
The Super Straights
Mr. and Mrs. SS moved in from an unknown town. In the beginning, everyone thought they were charming- they seemed a perfect couple. But slowly people started finding them a bit odd. 'What was so weird about then?' everyone wondered. Was it the fact that they were always happy, never quarreled, never fell ill or had a cross word with anyone. If you think of it, they were so perfect, so ideal and so 'normal' that it was pretty scary.
The Show Girl
From a family of trapeze artists, she ran away from home to seek her fame and fortune. She dreamt of becoming a famous stage actress, performing every night under the arc-lights to an adoring audience. But after a few months in the town, her life was just not headed where she wanted. Her acting skills were not up to the mark and no theater would hire her. She ended up waiting tables at a bar but every night she would get her sparkly dress out and dance ubder the streetlights to an imaginary audience.
From a family of trapeze artists, she ran away from home to seek her fame and fortune. She dreamt of becoming a famous stage actress, performing every night under the arc-lights to an adoring audience. But after a few months in the town, her life was just not headed where she wanted. Her acting skills were not up to the mark and no theater would hire her. She ended up waiting tables at a bar but every night she would get her sparkly dress out and dance ubder the streetlights to an imaginary audience.
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