Design Dreams Get Real

Design Dreams Get Real
They were design students till Saturday night. Now they are designers set to storm the fashion industry. The hard work of students of the National Institute of Fashion Design, Lindsay Street, was on show at the annual graduating batch fashion fiesta at the Oberoi Grand, presented in association with The Telegraph.

Nervous faces waiting to decipher the crowd reaction to their blood, sweat and tears and proud parents clapping their hearts out for every collection made sitting through the four-hour gala worth the effort.

With big names like Wendell Rodricks, Sharbari Dutta, Anamika Khanna and Sumedha Saraogi from the fashion fraternity judging the event, the final winners had double the reason to pat their backs. The two categories under which the participants were judged were fashion designing and textiles.

A mix of georgette, cotton, raw silk and jute dominated the fabrics used, and the styles were mostly contemporary with even ghagras slimming down to straight cuts and cholis going the western backless way.

The themes were inspired by everything from the teachings of Osho to how the mind of a prisoner works. In a gutsy move, a collection depicting same-sex love saw female models walking the ramp holding hands with mutual attraction clear from their expressions.

After what must have been a harrowing task for the j