WIFW 2014 Day 3: Paromita Banerjee

Celebrating Indian handlooms, weaves and colours, Paromita presented a nomadic fashion streak of silhouettes on the Day 3 of ongoing Wills India Fashion Week 2014 ramp.

Colourful prints and dyes were used on cotton and khadi to bring the Indian touch to the easy to wear and comfy outfits. Printed shawls, trench coats, kurtis, jackets scarves, empire lines, pyjamis, printed silk palazzo pants, and open socks printed footwear looked chic on the ramp.

There's something about playing with textiles and our natural reserves. Textured stripes, plaids and A-lines dominated Paromita Banerjee's collection. The show was divided into three parts which depicted different stories of the handmade to the handloom. The 1st story is a collection of hand-woven cotton weaves which consisted of contemporary silhouettes like jackets, reversible capes, shirt dresses.

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WIFW 2014 Day 3: Paromita Banerjee

The 2nd story is an extension of bespoke weaves in silks, and stripes in colours like midnight blue and grey. It had mulberry silk, hand-spun cotton and Azo-free vat dyes. Kurtas, jamas, short capes, draped silhouettes, and men's kurtas with checkered palazzo pants.

The 3rd story is block-print story using natural-dyed technique of Ajrakh on Gajji silk and looked more like hand-block printing. Merino wool stoles inspired by Kinnaur motifs from Kangra valley have been used in graphic woven blocks to create uni-sex range of stoles and shawls.