payalkhandwala - lookbook - a/w '12
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look book from our Winter Festive showing at Lakme Fashion Week during the month of August, 2012. This collection was titled 'the sadhu and the samurai'TRANSCRIPT
payalkhandwala
Winter Festive 2012
Lakme Fashion Week – Mumbai
www.payalkhandwala.in
ABOUT THE DESIGNER Payal received her first Art Scholarship at the National Board Level in 1990. She is a fashion design graduate from SNDT in Mumbai. And under the tutelage of Wendell Rodricks, amongst several awards for Illustration, Design and Construction she also won ‘Designer of the Year’ in a nationwide competition held by ShoppersStop in 1994. She interned with Krishna Mehta in Mumbai before moving to New York City in 1995 to pursue a degree on scholarship, at the Parsons School of Design. She graduated in 1999 with honors, with a BFA in Fine Arts and Illustration. Whilst in New York she worked with designer Sandy Dalal, CFDA’s winner of the Perry Ellis Award for menswear in 1997. After her return to India in 2002, she completed a diploma at Metafora, an international workshop for Contemporary Art in Barcelona in 2005. In 2007 she received Society Magazine’s Young Achievers Award in the Fine Arts category. Her works have been exhibited extensively in Mumbai, Delhi, New York, London, Barcelona, Tokyo and Singapore and her works are currently on consignment in galleries in New York, Barcelona and Mumbai and in several private collections in the US, India, France, England, South Africa and Belgium. She launched her eponymous fashion label at the Lakme Summer Resort event in March earlier this year.
COLLECTION NOTE: LAKME WINTER/FESTIVE 2012 ‘SADHU AND THE SAMURAI’ draws on the subtle similarities and the definite dichotomies between these two characters. Fundamentally they both personify discipline, focus and austerity. They share purpose and philosophy, and embody the virtues of loyalty, self-awareness and spirituality. However, they are distinctly different in their manifestations. Symbolically the monk and the warrior made the perfect beginnings for a collection that combined these extremes, whilst embracing their spirit. The idea was to marry the gentle, carefree and frugal with the structured, systematic and ornamental. To take the accidental and unintentional and team it with elements that are methodical, orderly and deliberate. The clothes interpret this contradiction as the layered separates are draped and wrapped alongside more constructed shapes. The palette embodies the origins of both the sadhu and the samurai with an arrangement of burnt orange, crimson and ochre, with coffee brown, charcoal, bronze and indigo. The silhouettes are long and relaxed. This is where the non-conformist, unconventional ascetic encounters the strong yet graceful soldier.
Look 1
PK-‐55 Top – Matka Silk (Bottle Green) PK-‐49 Skirt – Matka Silk (Charcoal)
PK-‐37 Pants – Cotton Satin (Chocolate)
Look 2
PK-‐82 Shirt – Matka Silk (Charcoal) PK-‐81 Skirt – Matka Silk (Bottle Green)
Look 3
PK-‐76 Waistcoat – Matka Silk (Crimson/Chocolate) PK-‐66 Skirt – Cotton Satin (Charcoal)
Look 4
PK-‐78 Tunic – Cotton Silk (Chocolate) PK-‐86 Lungi Skirt – Matka Silk (Crimson) PK-‐27 Dupatta – Cotton Satin (Chocolate)
Look 5
PK-‐77 Drape Top – Matka Silk (Indigo) PK-‐24 Skirt – Heavy Matka Silk (Chocolate)
Look 6
PK-‐67 Drape Top – Heavy Matka (Camel) PK-‐70 Dress – Matka Silk (Indigo)
PK-‐69 Palazzo – Matka Silk (Cerulean Blue)
Look 7
PK-‐65 Dress – Matka Silk (Cerulean Blue) PK-‐79 Skirt – Heavy Matka Silk (Chocolate)
Look 8
PK-‐82 Maxi – Matka Silk (Mustard) PK-‐81 Crop Jacket – Heavy Matka Silk (Indigo/Forest
Green) PK-‐87 Pants –Matka Silk (Chocolate)
Look 9
PK-‐75 Pleated Dress – Heavy Matka Silk (Indigo) PK-‐74 Lungi Skirt – Cotton Silk (Chocolate) PK-‐54 Wrap Top – Cotton Satin (Mustard)
Look 10
PK-‐53 Jumpsuit – Matka Silk (Forest Green) PK-‐32 Pant – Cotton Satin (Cerulean Blue)
Look 11
PK-‐73 Shirt – Matka Silk (Chocolate) PK-‐59 Skirt – Matka Silk (Mustard)
Look 12
PK-‐84 Shawl Jacket – Matka Silk (Mustard) PK-‐81 Lungi Skirt – Matka Silk (Crimson) PK-‐72 Kurta – Matka Silk (Chocolate)
Look 13
PK-‐40 Crop Top – Matka Silk (Mustard) PK-‐81 Skirt – Heavy Matka Silk (Rust)
PK-‐50 Hip Pocket – Heavy Matka Silk (Indigo)
Look 14
PK-‐63 Top – Heavy Matka Silk (Rust) PK-‐64 Skirt – Matka Silk (Crimson)
PK-‐37B Pant – Heavy Matka Silk (Camel)
Look 15
PK-‐83 Tunic – Matka Silk (Crimson) PK-‐80 Skirt – Cotton Satin (Rust)
Look 16
PK-‐56 Asymmetrical Slip/Tunic/Drape – Cotton Silk/Heavy Matka Silk/Matka Silk (Rust/Crimson)
PK-‐61 Wrap Skirt – Heavy Matka (Indigo)
