Two things are going to happen here that you never imagined you would see coming from me. One has already happened. Yes, I did in fact quote Crazytown in the title of this post. The second? I am writing a post about Fashion! Let me transport you fabulous readers to Fashion Week in London. In particular, I want to focus your attention on the hottest Indian designer in town: Manish Arora. Here is a snippet (with pictures) from last year’s Fashion Week:
As the special guest of the British Fashion Council, Delhi-based designer Manish Arora was undoubtedly under some pressure to make his mark on London Fashion Week. Although on of India’s best loved designers – his shows are nigh impossible to squeeze into – over here he’s the new boy and performing to an audience which is undoubtedly harder to please.
He seemed to pull it off. Although more costume than fashion, he gave us a spectacle that won’t be easy to forget. Models, who looked like they’d spent too much time at the village fete face-painting stall, came out in frou frou skirts buoyed by layers of coloured netting. Indian motifs and imagers covered the surface of bright fabrics, vying for position with gold embroidery, tassles and metallic discs. [Link]
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Damn girl. Your butt-is-err-fly! |
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I actually find this to be quite sexy. Unless bodies start turning up dressed up like this. Then, not so cool. |
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Is this an ode to Indian Mythology? Or Star Trek? |
More of his butterfly designs can be viewed here.
this butterfly theme runs rampant.. like mariah carey and her mimi and butterfly bit…
crazytown… 🙂 and fashion…abhi, is everything all right in the bunker of yours? or has there been a coup attempt like in thailand? i worry about you…
Abhi quoted Crazytown?? I think I need an advil.
… and the video, butterflies and all
Crazytown: Butterfly
wow, some of the pictures give me the heebie-jeebies or maybe i dont understand fashion
The top two are nice, but the rest. . .not so aesthetic some how.
But only the other day I was oohing and ahing over a butterfly mask the window of an Oakland boutique. My dinner companion was amused b/c next to it was a lingerie boutique with strategically placed butterflies. They’re a great theme, but easy to mess up.
Ugh. Butterflies are soooooo 2002. I’ll take his t shirt instead!
lol.. very apt title..
For the love of Ganesh, if you wanted to fit in butterflies and music, you could have went with Hendrix’s Little Wing. Now I’m going to have that disturbing Crazytown video in my nightmares! 😉
I would like to echo brimful on that one. I had the song in my head all night. Not cool.
My question to the more fashion conscious SM readers. Is this stuff supposed to be good? Aren’t you supposed to be able to wear clothes out in public? This stuff looks like a Dali painting come to life. Ugh.
fashion doesn’t always need to be practical, it is also art on its own… and Dali paintings make good art (for me anyway).
abhi… great! i’ve had this song stuck in my head since last night too!
not always. people forget that fashion is very much a form of art – while the majority of us look at clothing as items we would wear everyday, there exist a smaller (wealthier) group of designers and stylists who create lines purely for art/design sake. for them the purpose is experimentalism and creativity. eventually maybe (stress: maybe) a small element of one of those crazy designs would make it into a regular wardrobe, but incorporation into the mainstream isn’t really the purpose.
The facial butterflies are quite interesting – however, the butterflies covering the models’ mouths are uh… creepy.
What a worthless post.
I always try to write a thought provoking post. You know, one that will stay in your head for the rest of the day. 😉
I’ve watched the video of the show from the Fashion TV (FTV), does anyone know the background theme music that they using for this runaway show?