| Abhijeet Khanna Launches 'Risa' Lable
Debut at WILLS LIFESTYLE INDIA FASHION WEEK and LONDON FASHION WEEK
If the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week is the ultimate Indian ramp to walk down, NIFT New Delhi alumnus Abhijeet Khanna is treading the road early. He started his career working as design assistant to Manish Arora. Picking up invaluable experience over four years, this talented designer who won the gold medal from his batch and the award for the Best Design Collection when he graduated has also marked his presence on the international ramp. He represented Indian Contemporary Design at Bijenkorf in 2003, a prestigious store in Amsterdam where he showcased his collection and won lots of accolades.
The label, RISA is promoted by Radhika and Amit Rastogi, also the promoters of Ana Mika, the near-eponymous label of Anamika Khanna. They spotted the immense talent of this young man and created the label, RISA, launched in December 2006. They were taken in by its fresh, young-at-heart appeal. Abhijeet’s first collection under this label, Spring Summer 2008, had been selected by an esteemed jury at London Fashion Week and will showcase there in September 2007. In a unique debut double, RISA has also been selected for a catwalk show at Delhi’s Fashion Week, September 2007.
Abhijeet aptly describes the label as fashion forward. The designs are eclectic and are a synthesis of the best of the east and the west. It reflects strong Indian influences in terms of techniques like hand embroidery and block prints even as it exudes global appeal with its silhouettes and palette.
Abhijeet is being mentored by a team in London. The team comprises the individuals who taught John Galliano, Alexander Mc Queen and Hussein Chalayan.
He brings to Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week the wilderness of the greens with wild flora. Inspired by the Far East, it is a bouquet of flowers blooming in an oriental forest. The argyle motif is predominant in the collection just as roses bring in colour and the promise of a fragrant day. For technique, he looks at tie and dye. The end result is a collection where the silhouette is feminine and takes you back to the early 1960s with knee-length skirts. The swatches are often silk flattered with Indian techniques of hand embroidery and block printing. The palette extends from reds to greens and pastel pinks, purple and yellow.
As Abhijeet says, the woman he designs for has soft, flowing hair that cascades down or is tied loose. She smells of spices and roses and tulips. Hers is an eternal youth, and her adolescence never vanishes, a woman whom age forgets. “She’s fair in the sun, glows in the dark, she loves summer, winter and a dance in the monsoons,” says Abhijeet.
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