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Seams Natural's latest line is about city chic and folk charm
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ETHNIC TOUCHES TO CONTEMPORARY STYLES Models displaying Binu Jha's collection PHOTO: R. RAGU
What do you expect when a pub that's hip teams with a boutique known for its homespun wear? Obviously, a play of contrasts — rustic-hued clothes in a refined ambience, today's music and yesterday's craftsmanship, native inspiration translated into high-street styles.
Applause led the over-an-hour late show by Seams Natural at Distil, Taj Connemara. After the happy hellos, martini and mojito, the oh-so-cool fashionable crowd bathed by the dim lighting at the pub couldn't wait for the perfunctory walk-pose-turn routine of the models. And when they did, surprises unspooled on the mini-ramp.
"Chic Folk" being the line, designer Binu Jha was out to woo city folks with her signature ethnic touches. While the folk-inspired craftsmanship remained a continuing thread in her creations, what really set the collection apart from her previous ones was the styling — which was consciously young and very much `in'. Though the use of colour was in true Seams Natural way restrained, the styling had a bit of showiness to it.
Cropped being the keyword, there were short skirts and shorter tops, besides trousers and layered skirts with asymmetrical cuts. Detailing — like a collar that rolled into a cone, a skirt with cuts that subtly sliced the fabric to fall like ties and a spaghetti top that was braided, added a dash of the unusual to the clothes. In essence, the clothes were about city chic and folk charm. Talking of fit and finish, the designer needs to do some tweaking.
Keeping with the current trend of celebrities and socialites endorsing the works of designers by either walking the ramp for them or talking about their clothes, here too classical vocalist T. M. Krishna and wife Sangeetha (who flaunted the well-ventilated blouse designed by Binu), hotelier Nina Reddy et al participated. When the anchor for the evening asked the models to select a man from the pub to walk the ramp with them, it seemed quite simple. All they did was pick Nick. Nick Who? Well, Nick Hawkins is Distil's celebrity bartender — with the vivacity of Tom Cruise in "Cocktail." And like Cruise, when Nick poured, he reigned. That was pretty much evident as the crowd queued up to him even after the show.
T. KRITHIKA REDDY
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