“Street style enables individuality. If the runway is to fashion as a gallery is to art, then our body is the canvas” - says Natalie Hemmati. She is a wardrobe stylist, who relishes fraying her ripped jeans all year round and desires to shatter every rule out there. Consent to wear what you want, how opulently or negligently you want and where you want it, exists loudly in the era of breaking all the norms of fashion. Blenders Pride Glassware Fashion Tour powered by FDCI had to run through a few cities to finally get to the city of dreams - Mumbai. It planted its flag of
“my life my pride” with a groundbreaking collection, which was designed by the eminent duo of creative fashion-compass “Falguni Shane Peacock”. Falguni Shane Peacock has concentrated on the international fashion civilization by creating an adequate couture selection that holds a contemporary renaissance of Indian craftsmanship. Their designs hold high grades in Indian Fashion with the delicate balance of designs, silhouettes and craftsmanship.
Collection DNA
Time and again Falguni Shane Peacock, have retained an open mind to dig through the creative potentials towards their collections in india and on a global spectrum. Oversize baggy jeans with crop corsets and asymmetry of long and short jackets with crystal bling shining through fishnets were dashingly breaking the norms of stereotypes. Most certainly persistent in their finishing of the apparel and the grade of the exaggerations. Their avant-garde, cutting-edge fashion craft knocked the right code with street couture all over again.
The stage was conceptualized by India’s first and only female graffiti artist known for her classic graffiti art named DIZY. She indeed initiated a young punk with her graffiti with bright orange and black strokes cutting through shades of light blues and greys. The city witnessed a distinctive and fierce street luxe inspired by the rising wave of Indian Street-art culture.
Bright Silver crystalization on black and navy blues with multicoloured artwork emphasising sequences on jackets were adding certain lavishness to the street culture and philosophy. Oversize baggy pants were heading in the future of low rise, while corsets remain cropped sized balancing the breezy vibe of street couture pieces. Block shoes and flat block heels were releasing the ease along with funky kicks models wearing on the stage ramp. Cool kids of Bolly such as Zaid Khan and Shahid Kapoor joined the swag of gully boys rapping up their beats. While the audience seemed divided into corporates meeting stereotypes of the socials. Sadly no norms were getting broken in their decades-old approach towards the new world or mindsets of fashion. Nevertheless designers duo pulled some cool and kickass pieces out for their favourite muses to join in their support. An outdoor evening of fashion did stir up the moonlight into music and exchanging of fashion gestures.
The energetic and evolving articulation of Pride & Authenticity of the youth of India was hyped through the creative vision. The collection of “Pride In Breaking Norms of conventional Fashion” was not only glammed pieces but it was a mindset and a culture of future fashion and its owners. Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, and fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, and what is happening - Coco Chanel - Was a revolution in her era breaking the norms that inspired many to follow. This Street-style couture collection is all about personality, having the ability to look at things beyond fashion and self-confidence to transform even the simplest thing into something special.
