Oct 22, 2007

fashion: sleeves, cuts n colours

Sleeves, cuts and lenghths: Short kurtis, hosiary tops in boho, flower child loose style are in. Cuts are multi layered or two layered, plain contrasted by print. The Gaagra ghera with empire waistline and loose straights for dresses. Quarter balloon, ruched or cap sleeves are back (check Marchesa (NYfw)) Off shoulders, halters, tubes are out. What is interesting to watch is that the contrast sleeve effect is going to be big-- eg. (Visualise) Gold raw silk kurti with selective sequence embroidery in crimson, paired with creme silk chudidaar: the sleeves are likely to go crimson than gold ruched. And it looks amazing. This applies to the colour palate of fabrics as well. Ps. Pockets are in.

Fabrics n colours: Linen, Georgette, raw silk, khadi is here. Chiffon, cotton is out. Blacks, cobalt's, crimsons, fuchsias, grape, tungsten, magenta, saffron, gold, Hawaiian blue, berry purple IN. Exception is biscuit cream. The colour exudes class and can be teamed up with the above madness. Steel, silvers, whites, greys go at the back end of ur closet. Andy Warhol, Manish Arora, Donatella Vercace, Prada are in: get the picture? The same applies for ur denims n trousers. Capri's pave way for harem pants, denims and jeans can go funky, skirts reach knee length and thin stripe corduroy's are back where they belong (check out the Armani collection).