Fashion faux pas
OF course the necessary press rhetoric aside, if there’s anything that’s come out of the two mega fashion weeks that we sat through this last month alone, it is the fact that Indian fashion still keeps the Mumbai versus Delhi argument alive.
Mumbai’s Lakme Fashion week quickly concluded on a high note—with an announcement that they are (finally) doing some business to speak of. A new “trajectory growth” that spelt 220 registered buyers and anecdotes from young and forgotten designers on how sales were rather good. If the announcement is true, and genuine business is truly conducted, then that’s arguably good news for everyone.
New Delhi , on the other hand, has carped and guffawed at Mumbai’s preoccupation with celebrity showstoppers (Bollywood only, there are no other kind), it’s failed to hold a mirror up to itself recently. Right from Madhuri Dixit to Sridevi to Katrina Kaif and Karan Johar, Delhi’s PCJ Delhi Couture Week had every top-lining movie celebrity on its runway.
What both weeks seem to tell us is that they’re only interesting in catching up with each other. The fashion show has become a show of one-upmanship. The result of this is a country that shouldn’t be as confused over a decade of fashion weeks later. Instead of focusing on one week of mega fashion, where only the best of and the finest in India is showcased, celebrated and made to inspire, we have a culture of unnecessary competition.
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