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Couture a la Nida Mahmood


nida mahmoodA lady of many facets, Nida Mahmood is not only a fashion designer, but also a painter, columnist, graphic artist and stylist. She may not be mainstream fashion, but till date, she has garnered enough attention and adulation to have her own column in HT city, Vogue.com, fashioncurry.com and many other publications.

For Nida Mahmood clothes are a language which convey myriad of expressions ranging from wit, irony, style, sophistication, grace and elegance. Her works too are an extension of this belief as it epitomizes her design philosophy in every line and cut of her garments. Armed with a diploma in Fashion Design from NIFT and an award for the ‘Most Creative Design Collection’, Nida Mahmood has worked alongside such stalwarts as Manish Malhotra, Hemant Trivedi, Aki Narula, Ranna Gill and Puja Nayyar. After a number of gigs she finally decided to venture out on her own with her signature brand ‘Nida for SKIN’. Soon after the success of ‘Nida for SKIN’ Nida Mahmood was extended an invitation to launch the esteemed Lakme Fashion Week and ever since then she is a regular at the event.

Within the same year she was invited to launch with the prestigious LAKME FASHION WEEK. And since, has been successfully showcasing her collections at LFW as an independent designer and has also been holding her independent shows all over the country. A study of her creations is a rollercoaster of emotional outpouring. Her endless creative process has broken all the traditional fashion boundaries by combining eclectic pieces into a harmonious whole.

Experimentation and innovation are the keywords to her success. Nida Mahmood effortlessly blends old fashioned designs with contemporary aesthetics to bring in that extra zing to her creations. One of Nida Mahmood’s memorable works includes her Bollywood inspired clothes where poster artists replicated hand painted movie posters onto fabric. The fabric was then used to make clothes, handbags, Sarees, keychains and coasters. Her success has spread so far that even people in Japan and Middle Eastern countries now vie with each other to won a piece of her clothing.

However, the most notable of her fashion contributions is the saree over jeans trend which is almost a godsend for the new generation which is not really saree inclined. With the right accessories and look it is sure to turn a number of heads. The youthful vibrancy of the saree and jeans combination had the college going crowd in frenzy when it was first introduced.

Another delightful example of her creativity was her ‘stylized junk to funk’ collection which brought street elements into clothes. Package wrappings, sign boards, tin cans, nuts and bolts were used to design a variety of garments including sarees. Her varied color palette ranges from bright colors red, green, indigo, aubergine, fuschia and yellow to more somber shades of whites and greys. Not only are Nida Mahmood’s collection a delight for the wearer, it is a treat for the senses too.

Off-beat Sarees by Indian Fashion Designers


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Sari is an Indian attire, which has a mesmerizing grandeur about it. The charm has even crossed the boundaries of the country itself making even foreigners interested in it. However, due to the complex and often confusing way of wearing a sari, it has led many Indian women to turn away from it on regular days and resort to other types of dresses. However, even though it is time consuming to wear a sari, the beauty it imparts to the wearer cannot be overlooked. That is why even new-generation fashion designers are also taking keen interest in this attire making them off-beat and attract more women to it form of Indian Ethnic Wear.

The top Indian fashion designers have set their eyes now to make sari a form of contemporary style-statement. This involves coming up with more and more chic designs that are sometimes gorgeous to suit the occasion and sometimes simple but stylish for day-to-day wear and tear. This wide variety in sari is incorporated to make it afit attire for the busy and fast urban lifestyle now-a-days. The term ‘neo sarees’ perfectly describes this new trend.

Designers are approaching to give a make-over to saris by turning them into-easy-to-wear dress while not compromising on the glamour quotient at all. Pyjama sari is a very good example of one of these approaches. Created and showcased fashion designers Anamika Khanna, this sari design has a pyjama in it instead of a petticoat. The result is to allow the wearer walk in comfort without experiencing the feeling of the petticoat getting stuck with the folds of the sari. It also has crushed muslin pallus adding much style to the entire outfit.

Wendell Rodricks has come up with the innovative design of a sari gown. These off-beat sari-gowns are very comfortable as these have built-in choli and split pallu. It keeps the sari and its pallu in place which can pose a problem for the novices wearing sari. Yet another fabulous Wendell Rodricks creation is the jersey saree. Due to its casual and bold looks it impresses the young generation mostly. Moreover, it goes well with all- tops, tunics, pencil skirts and more.

In Nida Mahmood’s creation we find east meets west where she has made her models wear sari with jeans. Another strikingly contemporary and high on style is the design created by Sabyasachi Mukherjee. His creation is the Chhotu Sarees which is inspired by the way tribal women wear sari.

These are some of the new sari designs brought into the contemporary fashion world by some of the really talented minds and their endeavor to make sari not lose its timeless appeal.

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