This year the Fashion Design Council of India celebrated the 10th anniversary of India Couture Week. A decade of couture! 14 couturiers have showcased their haute couture collections during this festive edition, which took place from July 24 – 30,…
Interview: India Runway Week, a fashion movement
The Fashion Orientalist featured the very first edition of India Runway Week back in 2013. The organisers of the event, IFFD (Indian Federation for Fashion Development) directors Kiran Kheva and Avinash Pathania, created this platform for young & talented fashion…
Amazon India Fashion Week Autumn-Winter 2017: Highlights
Amazon India Fashion Week Autumn-Winter 2017 took place from the 15th until the 18th of March in New Delhi, India. Designers originating from all over India showcased the trends for the upcoming Autumn-Winter season. Themes like; heritage clothing (mix of…
Amazon India Fashion Week Autumn-Winter 2017: Highlights
Amazon India Fashion Week Autumn-Winter 2017 took place from the 15th until the 18th of March in New Delhi, India. Designers originating from all over India showcased the trends for the upcoming Autumn-Winter season. Themes like; heritage clothing (mix of…
Gaurang: The Master of Weaves
The fashion industry is becoming more sustainable, or at least it’s trying to. It’s a hot topic. There are several fashion designers who have made it their design philosophy and incorporate sustainable practices into modern clothing. Indian fashion events like…
Payal Singhal Summer/Resort 2017: Lady M
Lady M, the collection by Indian designer Payal Singhal, was one of the highlights of Lakmé Fashion Week Summer/Resort 2017. Singhal was inspired by the dark romanticism of the crime novel ‘Death on the Nile’ by English novelist Agatha Christie. In…
Glocal fashion by Urvashi Kaur
Indian fashion designer Urvashi Kaur showcased her latest collection named VASA during Lakmé Fashion Week Summer/Resort 2017 last month. Her label embodies glocal fashion, which comes from the phrase think globally, act locally. Glocalization, a fusion between the words globalization…
Bollywood Hollywood Style – Deepika Padukone
Cuckoo for Colour fashion illustrator Aparna has joined forces with The Fashion Orientalist to showcase the latest trends in fashion via watercolor art. This week she has painted two red carpet looks, Bollywood + Hollywood, worn by actress Deepika Padukone.…
The Grand Finale of Lakmé Fashion Week SR17 – Anita Dongre ‘Alchemy’
Fashion designer Anita Dongre showcased her Summer Resort 2017 collection ‘Alchemy’ last night in Mumbai, India as the grand finale of Lakmé Fashion Week SR17. The fashion show was held at the Bandra Fort amphitheatre, a historic location also known…
Lakmé Fashion Week Summer 2017 – ‘Seamless’ by Amit Aggarwal: age-old tradition meets today’s technology
February is a great month when it comes to fashion. Award season is treating us with celebrities walking down the red-carpets in haute couture gowns (who else is looking forward to the Oscar’s red carpet?!) and fashions’ elite are jetting…