Avant Garde Designs and Fabrics Making Waves in Indian Fashion
August 19, 2004 | Levent OZLER
Fashion designers in South India have been experimenting with avant-garde designs and fabrics, and now you can even get garments that match your living room curtains and cushion covers.
It's not quite what you'd expect to see on the catwalk - high fashion using materials normally meant for curtains and sofas.
Even traditional mats of leaves and bamboo can also be transformed into innovative clothes with a difference.
Fashion Designer Shikha Verma said, "It was a very interesting experience because it was for the first time that I had to use furniture and upholstery fabrics. And the whole idea was to focus and emphasise on fabrics so some of them were not constructed garments, they were deconstructed garments!"
The concept was first mooted by a luxury furnishings and upholstery store in Hyderabad, South India.
"The furnishings industry has grown. It has come to a stage where the product can be used on various other things, not only as curtains and upholstery, you can make blinds. You have to understand the product, put it on a model," said upholstery and furnishings store owner Kamlesh Aggarwal.
Mr Aggarwal is optimistic about the widespread use and acceptance of these fabrics.
So who knows, the day may not be far off when what you wear matches your living room curtains and cushion covers!
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