During the current fashion month in Mumbai, contemporary show-goers hopped from one show to the other dazzling in their favourite designer’s ensembles, advocating everything they labelled as fresh and upcoming. From tried and true closet classics to more captivating trend-forward elements of designing pret-a-porter. At the core of each look, however, was a piece of seriously strong spring wear. Think of tube tops and dhoti skirts with long jackets sprinkled throughout the recent fashion week.

From new talent to mainstream designers, counted silhouettes and styles of collections were flaunted on the runway. Seasons special edition is as usual missing from our fashion week chart. Every designer has their techniques and embroidery to imprint collections, resembling what they create previously with few selected styles being on repeat. oversized umbrella pants with capes, ready-made sarees or even when we go to see every collection with its choice of velvet gleaming out all over this season. Seasons aesthetics are missing out at the same time making the most off-duty moments in oversized jackets on denim or oversized linen suits with sneakers seen almost on everybody.

According to a recent fashion line-up for no specific season, few styles and silhouettes got on repeat with each collection and fashion lovers are far from done with it. In India, festive seasons and wedding seasons get more important than the fall/winter or spring/summer. It's the diversity and segregation of so many different cultures from state to state, ready- to-wear gets maximum sales in Indian couture wear while casual collections are mainly created by designers as their pret lines in collaboration with mass manufacturing. These are the commonly designed silhouettes we spotted during the most recent showings.

Dhoti skirts sartorial elegance

Pleated skirts with short crops, Ganjis or tunics overlapped with front open long jackets having their cherry moments. Tarun Tahiliani dropped the most mesmerizing collection called Sheer Drama which had a lineup of the most glamorous dhoti skirts and capes on beautiful bikini tops underneath. While Monisha Jaising created resort lux wear keeping her aesthetics in the roots in collaboration with reliance jewellery. Her recent line dropped platinum pleated skirts with beautiful embellishments on short tops. Dazzling reliance jewels and glamorous resort wear mostly incorporated dhoti style in sarees, skirts and resort dresses creating a dream look for spring’s feels. Esha Amiin dropped her recent line of floral and dopamine 3D prints, her tunics with dhoti skirts and oversized open tops created a tropical fusion of boho chic vibe. Heat-wave having its flying visit to the city around the same afternoon, her tropical dopamine boost of clothing was nothing less than co-ords on a beauty vitamin drip. Tropical dhoti smart casual just went with the sun-kissed flowy casuals and the climate created perfect stardust along with the designer's friends dressed up in her favourite attire, all glammed up in her support.

Asian aesthetics and silhouettes

Contemporary designers seemed to love the Japanese, Korean and Chinese concepts of creating collections. Asian silhouettes are taking over simple cuts and patterns. Antar Agni is one of the most promising gender-fluid fashion labels, mostly focusing on the asymmetry of patterns. His collections are highly influenced by Asian styles and
silhouettes with sustainable fabrics focusing more on comfortable clothing. The collection Disquite was conceptualized in a moment of freefall, grappling to understand the change in current times. Ceramic jewellery and its signature pleats, and drapes infused with organic surface bring the symphony of chaos and calm ultimately resembling a lot with Asian silhouettes being the core inspiration. Two point two created Japanese streetwear elegance which was the refinement of traditional intricate hand-drawn portraits of samurai warriors. The
collection A Warrior’s Journey was vivid colours and digital portrait series of prints symbols of one of japan’s known forms of dance - the Kabuki.
 

Stick to basics

In the Khadi India collection, Divyam Mehta, Suket Dhir and Shruti Sancheti created a line of organic printed sarees and apparel. Traditional folk art of Gond, Madhubani and Picchwai paintings were breathing back to life. Woollen khadi from Bikaber, Cotton from Kanpur, Muslin from Murshidabad and Eri Silk from Assam, hand-spun,

handwoven genuine khadi with natural dyeing and hand block printing sounds like beautiful tintinnabulation dancing through nature’s wind and spreading peace around. Sustainable clothing is getting empowered by

its origin, and India has been a mother of sustainable fashion. Many designers chose basics and century-old techniques to create recent lines of clothing. If the sound of organic fashion feels so soothing one can only imagine how ethical and mindful wearing them could feel.

These designers strike biological versatility in silhouettes and organic fabrics. It's getting mainstream lately and we can only be thankful for this new wave of ethical fashion in the world of synthetic synergy. Listen up: spring summer or followed season, cool kids of the fashion world approved way to layer up in certain ways. Beloved for their unique

yet flattering silhouettes and range of stylish opportunities, options in mentioned trends are many filtering through the recent collections. Showgoers are making common choices of style which are gender neutral and unbiased with all races and age groups. Men merge skirts with formal jackets and women opt for perfect peacoat picks. Fashion is merging and standout styles reigning from comfort and confidence. Stay tuned for more fashion updates.