For those conversant with Gupta’s silhouettes, it symbolized the shapes he loves and has been freezing into Indian couture memory and market. Last Saturday evening, those killing time and tedium at the bar-lounges around the main show area of India Couture Week at Delhi’s Taj Mahal hotel generally agreed that there would be “no disappointment” with Gaurav Gupta’s show. In an India straining to retain its glocal character, priding on being Indian, without necessarily looking it—Gupta’s couture isn’t just “modern” or “edgy”. “Modern”, “futuristic”, “contemporary”, “edgy”—words that might just be making Gupta fume with exasperation (for their repetitiveness and fatigue- evoking meanings)—went around. Inside the show area, the set, created by Dream Design & Display represented a white frozen wave, an undulating structure that snaked across the wide ramp.

Source: Mint July 25, 2016 10:41 UTC