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Dress like a dream
RATNA G. CHOTRANI
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Anuradha Vakil's summer collection at Elahe focuses on traditional craftsmanship and vegetable dye is the dominant factor.
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COME SUMMER, the Indian ethnic market is raring to go. Getting the right fabric that will not crush due to heat, and the right stitch keeping in view the global styles, is what every woman desires.
Anuradha Vakil, a revivalist of textile craft, is flagging off creations that would definitely go down fashion folios this summer. Her upmarket boutique `Noor' in Ahmedabad was started six years ago and she retails from `Melange' in Mumbai, `Ogaan' in Delhi and Calcutta, `Folio' in Bangalore, `Fasateen' in Dubai and `Elahe' in Hyderabad.
This season the designer has brought a new collection based on classic Indian wear, including saris. These collections come after months of intense experiments and with sheer ingenuity of her craftsmen.
A preview of her summer line is to be held at Elahe from April 15 to 17.
Her emphasis is on using vegetable dyes in most craft traditions. Anuradha Vakil believes in celebrating the traditional mould.
She has traversed on the western fusion track to create a look of the east, where colours are from the Indian colour palette -- rustic browns, chilli green, blacks, purple and reds.
The Indian woman is so much into her western wear that she looks for the international feel in anything she wears.
Hence you also have short kurtas with body fits, in sleeves as well as sleeveless styles, long and slim tunics with churidaars and pinafore styled kurtas in combination of raw silk and green.
The new look from Anuradha Vakil is a total transition from everything she has done in the past. She fulfils a long-standing innate urge to `make every woman dress like a dream'.
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