Shān Shuǐ
Couture 2023
Inspired by a style of traditional Chinese landscape painting that depicts natural landscapes, especially those of water and mountains. The ramp was a clean grey one with sand pits while the show started off with a bright red Chinese dragon dancing all around.The Chinese term for the art genre “landscape” is Shan Shui
. The collection was broken up into 3 segments –
1) Cocktail deriving of separates and evening gowns.
2) Couture consists of sarees, lehengas, sherwanis, kurtas and bandh galas.
3) Introducing our Bridal Collection with a few heavier and intricate lehengas and sherwanis.
Highlights
· Indian looks are layered with parkas, trenches, bombers and jumpers to give a casual, young, fresh look to couture
· The surfacing consisted of top-stitch, sequin overlay, quilting and heavy crystal embellishments in the form of patchwork.
Showstarter
Guru Randhawa wears a black velvet jacket with golden zari work
Showstopper
Farhan Akhtar wears a signature gold and black velvet sherwani with crystal applique all over it.