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Lalit & Sunita Jalan
To be brief in the illustration, it can be well said that Sunita & Lalit are born designers. Their sense of style and courteousness was one of the parts of their "growing up" to a designer, and is the essence of their creation.
To be brief in the illustration, it can be well said that Sunita & Lalit are born designers. Their sense of style and courteousness was one of the parts of their "growing up" to a designer, and is the essence of their creation.
Living up to the sceptisism and apprehension of the Kolkatan fushionistas, they won... the battle of the existence, and won over several critics with their unique experimentation with the "age - old tradition and marked "Hunar" - the designer studio, and the first ever store for ethnic men's wear, 'delivering a message that they are there to rule.
The curtain raiser to their success was their first act in Mumbai's reputed studio GLITTERRATI. Nationally acclaimed shows, immense media coverage and a positive feedback led Sunita & Lalit being featured in the Annual Femina Book of Fashion exclusively for the mail trousseau.
Their collections are hallmarked with subtle, somber tones of cream, peach, brown, mauves and greens... all creating a very mellow effect. The clothes are known for their intricate embroidery and the symbiosis of concepts and silhouettes on fabric. The skillful combination of classic silhouettes gives their clothes a contemporary mould.
Sunita & Lalit's signature lies in the Indianness in truly universal design using a wide variety of natural or ultra modem fabrics embellished with touch of embroidery and surface ornamentation. Ancient art tradition and culture are their forte, coupled with an approach, which is modern and chic. Their creativity of course involves a lot of effort.. .scrutinizing every weaves to its intricacy, texture, drapability and ease of maintenance that is often tiresome and more often painstaking. Then, constant supervision at every evolving stage of experimentation and production gives a seal to quality to Sunita & Lalit's creation.
They have gathered many aces up their sleeves, some are about quietly spreading their thoughts in textiles to HUNAR in kolkatan, ENSEMBLE in Mumbai and New Delhi, FFOLIO in Bangalor and internationally to Italy and Middle East. ..and some are of as magnificent as creating globally acknowledge clothes when the Japanese designer KENZO visited India and asked Lalit to design his personal ethnic wardrobe.
LIFW 2005
Lalit Jalan is ready to take the bow at LIFW 2005.
Driving his creative Muse is the burning question each of us toys with: Will technological advancement eliminate the wonderful differences that makes us unique individuals? Will the visual distinctions of individual identity and gender bow down to technological cloning? Are we losing our cultural heritage? Will plastic surgery take over the Divine Doctor? Can my heart transplanted in your body make me you, or you me? Do we have any distin ct identity any more?
Going back to his experience of more than 15 years, Lalit Jalan presents a collection that crystal gazes into the future and holds all the answers that the present generation is searching for. Here's a collection for modern inter-sexual wanderers. Working with natural fabric like cotton, silk and linen blended with the synthetic to make it relevant to the contemporary wearer, Jalan's latest silhouette adds deformation (????) to the normal line with special detailing and features such as gathers, pleats, tuck and layers.
The palette is pastels blending with neutrals, the rustic and the earthy, brought alive with surface development and ornamentation with embroidery merging with prints and dyes. Put together with beaded necklaces, bold bracelets, nose rings, gloves, masks and long bags, it throws open as many questions as it answers.
