Designers come together for 'The Sustainable Man' show

Rajesh Pratap Singh, Abraham & Thakore label and Aneeth Arora joined forces to present a collective 'Sustainable Man show' to end Day Two at Lakme Fashion Week Summer/Resort 2017.
While Singh and David Abraham and Rakesh Thakore are known for their menswear, Arora, who designs for women for her label 'Pero' turned to dressing up the man this time.
For his show, Singh's prime focus was on khadi and old denim, along with fibres and yarns cleverly created from recycled plastic bottles and salvaged garments. He also added hand woven ikat, hand embroidery.
Highlighting the actual concept of sustainable fashion Rajesh presented a collage of his past and present work. He creatively upcycled and reused, unsold, rejected, merchandise from his collections and turned them into a new avatar of style.

Some of the men's wear was designed from old recycled indigo clothing; while the hand woven ikat was cleverly made using pet bottle wastes.
Abraham and Thakore's men's wear collection was called "Dandy March". Using only discarded fabrics like bed sheets, cushion covers and off-cuts, the duo made a creative attempt at recycling waste material from off cuts on the factory floor.

Bits of cloth from 'kabaddis', markets of Delhi and even packaging material of courier parcels were used in the garments.
By using techniques like Boro, Pojagi, Kantha and quilting, the label recycled and upcycled the fabrics and presented a fashion story for the urban Dandy.

Arora's "The Forbidden Garden" range was inspired by the painter/botanist Pierre Joseph Redoute from Southern Netherland whose water colours of flora were well known.
The designer translated the paintings into intricate hand embroidered buttas that resembled paintings on canvas.
The highlight of the collection was hooded, checked, white, long line coat worn with shorts, another hooded poncho, railroad stripes for shirt, a thread embellished or floral print long line coats.