Amit Agarwal is one such designer who is known to stand out from the crowd in terms of his unique vision and presentation. The designer chose to convert an auditorium inside Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium into a fashion runway for his show at FDCI India Couture Week 2022. The audience was seated on stage as models walked through seats in the auditorium in dazzling compositions by Amit Agarwal.
The collection, titled Pedis, is a refreshing take on the label’s part-miraculous, part-fictional journey of a decade. But a constant thread of shaping and staining the inevitable folds of time runs through it. “It’s also a kaleidoscope for the fact that we are at an interesting juncture in time where the digital space adjusts for itself those whimsical aspects that are not accessible in the physical world. Each silhouette reveals that we are the first human beings.” carry echoes and capture the beginning of the future – overlaid on the finer realities of the present. This collection is a celebration of the fact that we are a mess in time: warlike forms, straddling fields, embracing eternity. read the note.
Describing the collection after the show, the designer said, “There is a lot of contrast of cultures from the past and the future, hence the influence of tribal jewelery etc. I wanted to mix it with the idea of what the future might hold. Mankind, who could be a cyborg. I think the pedis is the crux between the time and the place where we are.”
“The interesting part about the collection is the polymer that has now been carried over to the handloom. We extracted the extract from the ikat and made the polymer into a yarn, and woven it into the handloom. Cross-pollination between traditional things like handlooms and polymers made this beautiful Tech-Tile makes textiles which I absolutely love,” said Agarwal.
Members of the LGBTQi community from plus-size models were among the models walking the ramp, although the designer said it was not a conscious effort to appear ‘inclusive’. “The buzz word inclusivity is a bit overused, honestly. To me body shape or your likes and preferences don’t define you. Since my collection represents the human race at large, it’s best to go out and try a variety It was important to involve people and ideologies,” he said.
When asked why she didn’t follow the trend of being a celeb showstopper like many other fashionistas, she said, “We celebrate our 10 years this year, and it was important for me to single out the Amit Agarwal tribe. Various at this time Presenting the variety of colors, the shape was more important than anyone sculpting the collection.”
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