#akaaross14review FDCI And if the talk is about effective style, the man who stole the show on Day 2 was undoubtedly Gaurav Jai Gupta of Akaaro, which means auspicious in Sanskrit, generally affixed before the name of a God. Gaurav, who is a trained weaver himself, from the Chelsea College of Art and Design, UK, got the idea of this line when he saw a woman crossing the road wearing a Mother Teresa headdress. Missionaries of Charity devote their lives to a cause, but now we see how religion has become extreme, politically we are going down the hill, the economy is sliding, my line is an effort of initiate a dialogue,” he says. Agreeing to the fact that fashion is quite individual, Gaurav has installed a loom at his studio so most of his pure silk and cotton in the line ‘Mod-erate’ was hand done. “I don’t sketch or do pattern cutting, but I do know how to weave and I mostly work with drapes,” he smiles. Gaurav shies away from the Indian-ness and confesses that his approach to design is global, and without attempting to classify his customer, he adds, “she must be an intellectual, somebody who is unafraid to stand out from a sea of sequins”. : asmita aggarwal (FDCI BLOG) fdci.org/blog/BlogComents.aspx?id=370
Posted on: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 08:01:35 +0000
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