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Two young designers take their creative ideas and clothes to the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week 2007 to Delhi
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TELLING COLLECTIONS Whether it's Neetu Gupta's robotic look collection or Deepika Govind's feminine and silky look, it's a style statement of the contemporary Indian woman
Breaking the fashion bubble with a tweak of their own are two young designers, Neetu Gupta and Deepika Govind. They are all set to scorch the ramp with their creations at the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week.
Neetu Gupta has opted for a snazzy futuristic and robotic-yet-feminine look this year and Deepika Govind has worked on two contradictory ideas that offset each other — a hedonistic rock 'n' roll collection and another completely contrary one dominated by the soft shimmery muga.
Neetu Gupta famous for surface treatments of textile, the collection she takes this year again plays on this element. "Each of my garments has texture and patchwork of some kind," says Neetu. "Grey and beige are the dominant colours with a bit of sheen thrown in for gold. The collection also has shades of rust. I've done a whole range of jackets, t-shirts, skirts and silk dresses."
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But aren't feminine and robotic ideas poles apart for a collection? "Well, my collection is a cross between the two — there are not too many curves, but the clothes have the necessary contours," says Neetu.
Neetu has been selected to participate in the Hi-Five category — a cross-section of five young designers in the country who get a special show to showcase their creations. "I've used a lot of woollen linens, felt, silk, and taffeta with a bit of stretch thrown in," says Neetu who's named the collection "Crazy Kiyare"! "I've been inspired by the book The Goddess Guide (a style Bible by Gisele Scanlon) where every woman tries to discover the goddess within her who loves luxury, travel, drinking etc."
This will be Deepika Govind's eighth year at the show and she laughs as she says that over the years people have started to understand what she's trying to say through her collections.
She has just explained the concept of her collection `Seal of the Sensitive: Key to Jigsaw' and I can't help but ask if the idea isn't a bit too deep for something like a collection of clothes? "I know at the end of the day fashion is fashion, and it can't be serious. And that's the irony of it," she says.
Her collection centres around the concept that there are two kinds of people — those that are sensitive and the others who are hedonists and really involved only with themselves. "All I want to say is that you need to care.
It could be in the smallest ways — your individual decision to save water or have only one car... " says Deepika. "But reality is what I'm trying to show in my collection — that all types of people co-exist." Her collection this year features short-cropped pants in muga silk (that has natural UV ray protection) with loose tunics, silk knits with her specialty Ikkat worked on it.
She only uses all-natural fibres and fabrics in her collections always.
Her rock 'n' roll creation has sari-based inspirations teamed with jackets, and dresses too. A palette of gold, mineral reds, midnight blues, dark teals and beige golds splashes across her collections.
BHUMIKA K.
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