After enthralling everybody together with his impeccable work in theatre, Santanu Bose, a famend theatre director and NSD professor, has now taken his first few steps within the trend world with consummate class. “My theatre background is like my mom tongue, which by no means goes out of my reminiscence and my existence; it’s in my blood and it’s woven into my existence. No matter I’m making an attempt to do in trend, it’s theatre which comes like a wave, blows me away and takes me additional to totally different instructions,” Bose says.
The ‘instinctive’ designer simply wrapped up the Santanu Bose Style Week, which showcased his collections that had been an affront to ‘conventional’ trend norms and tried to redefine trend tendencies. The garments from his model ‘Padaboli’ broke out of the restricted palettes of greys, blues, black and white — thought-about intrinsic to point out ‘manliness’ — and exuded a heat burst of colors. “My strategy of designing garments includes imagining what breaks away the boundaries and limits of identities. I all the time design garments past cis males and cis ladies. I attempt to create garments which aren’t restricted to masculinity or femininity, they’re about belonging nowhere. This non-belongingness of identification is the principle thought of curation.”
Bose could be known as an avant-garde within the trend business in the way in which he introduced his assortment. The runway, an illustration of Bose’s trend having theatrical moorings, was marked by fashions strolling backwards, falling on the ground, utilizing props, displaying rage and love, shifting in a loop, creating theatrical scenes, and most significantly telling a narrative. “It’s human beings and their feelings which all the time curiosity me. My design makes an attempt to point out human beings of their varied feelings and existences, even when they’re not actual, they’re painted or depicted,” Bose shares.
The three-day occasion, introduced by Maison de Bose, gave a platform to 9 designers. Whereas ‘Harshi’ by designer Harshita featured the alluring Chikankari assortment in a up to date fashion as conventional craftsmanship took on a contemporary twist, Vicky Saini, a designer of Zardozizari, crafted his design primarily based on the intricate artwork of zari zardozi, a method of embroidery that originated throughout the twelfth century.
In the meantime, Shruti Mangaaysh’s handcrafted assortment ‘Jugalbandi’ was an ideal mix or ‘jugalbandi’ of recent and outdated textile weaving methods — the ethereal great thing about pen kalamkari and pichwai artwork paired with materials like organza, brocade, and georgette. The gathering of Notre Ame by designers Sobha and Sachin, alternatively, targeted on the thought of upcycling and round trend to create international types and remove the necessity for brand new material manufacturing, famous the press launch of the occasion.
The occasion commenced with a chat by Veronique Allais Dieu, the French Ambassador for India for the Arts, Luxurious, and Gastronomy, on the love story of latest Indian and French trend within the twenty first century. “Garments designed by Santanu are dramatic, have classical patterns and an ode to outdated Bollywood fashion; all in all, a deal with to the eyes,” Veronique Allais Dieu shares with The Indian Specific.
The occasion probably set new tendencies within the trend business because it was the primary time Bose launched streetwear in his present, says 25-year-old Shubham Nandra, one of many homeowners of Jammers, who showcased his model’s assortment on the occasion.
Bose, who entered the style world two years in the past, and has accomplished in three trend weeks since then, was enticed into the couture business by his “quest to discover extra inventive content material and discover new methods and mediums to precise it.” “I’ve all the time labored with content material and emotion, and fashions have a novel capability to empty their faces and change into carriers of sartorial expertise, which attracted me. So I needed to maneuver away from emoting and enter the realm of vacancy,” he says.
His ardour for showcasing instinctive and uncooked human feelings on stage spills over into his trend, making it stand out among the many multitude of trend exhibits and types. Nevertheless, he has obtained warnings in regards to the “over-dramatisation” of garments. “My shut trend pals utterly disapprove of my presentation of garments. They consider it leans extra in direction of theatre and expression slightly than the cleanliness and pristine nature of trend. Consequently, the garment generally takes a backseat, and the individual carrying it turns into the point of interest. Nevertheless, as a result of I exist between these two realities – theatre and trend – the wearers and wearables are continuously shifting gears.”
The Santanu Bose Style Week expanded the horizons of how we put on and understand garments, deconstructing the definitions that limit us and presenting a gender-neutral and inclusive line of trend. The occasion showcased clothes that seamlessly built-in with the modern realm of favor and couture whereas preserving conventional aesthetics.
“For me, trend is a detour. It’s a vacation. It’s an affair. It occurs in these moments when ardour utterly consumes you, blows you away, and means that you can float even in the midst of the ocean,” concludes Santanu Bose.
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