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All for a comfortable clothing

By Anjali Dhal Samanta

Models displaying Sabyasachi Mukherjee's collection in New Delhi on Saturday. Photo: S. Subramanium

NEW DELHI, MAY 1. Never mind international trends, foreign buyers and the domestic market. Popular designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee on Day Five today of the Lakme India Fashion Week here presented a collection that he owned up was "completely self-indulgent''. Utterly Sabyasachi, the line "Frog Princess'' was all about comfortable clothing.

"The entire collection was very me. I wasn't making it for the international market or the domestic market. I really did not care about that. It was completely for myself,'' said the designer, adding: "It was also a product of my state of mind. My sister used to be a model and she ended up with an eating disorder because she had to conform to a particular society. For myself, I was very depressed because of what happened at LIFW last year. I was at a stage where I just wanted to give it all up and run away. Then one day I just decided I had to get out of the rat race and do something of myself and that's where this collection comes from,'' revealed the designer after his fashion show here.

To get the message across, Sabyasachi even made his models walk the ramp eating chocolates and carrying bags with breads in them. Off the ramp, candy was distributed among the audience. A very layered, untidy - or "grunchy'' as the designer calls it - look, the collection had lots of long skirts, pants, jackets, T-shirts and churidar-kurtas all creatively teamed together. "I would like to call my look vintage with a new tinge. I have made a collection for a woman who is very comfortable with herself and doesn't let the society dictate to her. The style I was trying to create was similar to aspiring painters walking on the streets of Paris. And that's why the look is laid-back and worn-out. It's a girly look but intellectual. Yes, there are a lot of layers in it but that's just the look. Most of the clothes would work well as separates,'' said the designer, who got an appreciative round of applause.

To create the look, models sported smudged make-up and messy hair while the walk was lazy and slow. For the worn-out look, Sabyasachi used burnt-out lace, toned down colours and staining on the clothes. The collection also had some saris with sequins work. "I don't think that I can do a collection without putting in a sari. Perhaps it's because I am a Bengali and an Indian and a sari will always be there!'' laughed the designer.

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