Namrata Joshipura's show at Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week

Namrata Joshipura

You don't enter a Namrata Joshipura show expecting to analyse forthcoming trends or enjoy a free-wheeling carousel of a show. You get there to rediscover why you love fashion, to renew energy and to reinforce that you are a woman in control of clothes and your mind.

The clearly chalked out collection suggested that power dressing was incomplete without the inclusion of inherent elegance. The multiplicity of shapes and colours unfolded over simple silhouettes spliced with beading and texturing techniques.

Her intellectually rich and complex range had scallop textures on a leather jacket and dress, and saw the judicious use of pop coloured streaks. Turning pattern laws on their heads, she made the back of garmentsdressed in large buttons and ruffled details while the front wore a plain demeanour.

Vibrancy made space for staid as a grey snake skin dress featured pop colour stripes on the shoulders, and recurrent bumble bee and fan motifs varied in geometric proportions to create a sense of terrific tension.

Namrata's reluctance to resort to warm fabrics and dreary colours to defend the Fall/Winter theme, saw her match a black snake skin textured jacket with floral skirt, while a black circle applique jacket accommodated purple piping.