29 March,2010 06:42 AM IST | | Shweta Shiware
Prashant Verma is obsessed with himself. That his job as a fashion designer allows him to stretch his passion to its brink, can only be labelled an occupational hazard.
Something we've gotten used to and even anticipate every season.
His Autumn/Winter 2010/11 showcase, titled Love & Art, with Lady Gaga's vocals pumping in the background; it kept us on the edge of our seats. But Prashant had different plans.
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He wanted to focus on complexity of human condition and pathos of contradictions u2013 emotions only akin to falling in love.
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The show began with a short film, of course directed and starring Prashant, exorcised by the angst and aspiration of what he terms, "love".
Prashant Verma At: 4.25 pm
"He's working out, he looks great," whispered my very fashionable colleague seated beside me on row 1.
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In fact, it wasn't just the muscles Mr Verma was flexing but some off-kilter narratives and concepts through an annoyingly mixed up collection.
The 16-piece collection featured some painstaking quilting techniques, tattered gauze and embroideries in wool, marble prints and apocalyptic landscapes.
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The focus, apart from the leading star, saw silhouettes bending backwards to the medieval caveman era when fabrics were employed to merely wrap the body.
Textures took the onus of exciting the senses with black pearl embroidery, ripped gauze and stone-embroidered shoulders.
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The Glorious Clot segment with its dinosaur grave print, burning fossils and mountain landscape prints looked inspired, especially after they bore immediate reference points from Christopher Kane's Planet of the Apes-inspired Spring/Summer 2009 collection.
