Male Order ; the Trend Statements Were All There. Menswear Made More Than a Passing Impression Even As the Curtains Fell On a Lukewarm Edition of Lakme Fashion Week.

India Today (April 14, 2008)

Author: Kimi Dangor; Jhilmil Motihar

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The autumn-winter edition of Mumbai's Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) could have turned out to be a head-turner, if not for the far-from scintillating style soup, then for the head accessories that designers crowned models with.

While Neeta Lulla's bizarre Jodhaa Akbar inspired turbans took the lead in the outlandish sweepstakes, Pria Kataria Puri towed the line in her over-thetop 1920s flapper inspired topis and Abhishek Dutta draped Tshirts like head scarves. On the lighter side of the cover-up coterie, Sabyasachi Mukherjee sent out models with Frida Kahloesque pompoms and flowers woven into their buns.

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Male Order ; the Trend Statements Were All There. Menswear Made More Than a Passing Impression Even As the Curtains Fell On a Lukewarm Edition of Lakme Fashion Week.

Yet when it finally came to a head, LFW proved again to be lagging behind in the battle for style supremacy. To be honest, the trend statements were all there pin tucks and pleats, silks and satins and metallic fabrics bu...

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