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July 31, 2000 |
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 Tailored to the Industry Sonica Sarna, a gabby, just-passed-out student at the Pearl Academy of Fashion in Delhi, hesitates for a fraction before deciding to be free-spoken. "Sure you want the truth about NIFT (the nursery of Delhi's overpublicised fashion fellowship)?" she inquires rhetorically, dying to go on. "Well whatever they do is just in the air I mean, who's interested in things made out of plastic, paper and jute. After all one has to sell the damn clothes." Could be just a healthy disdain for a well-entrenched rival, but most of the students of the seven-year-old academy are taught to think alike -- nothing is more important than the wearability and practicality of an outfit and gimmicky artifices are best confined to cartridge-paper sketch books. Doesn't mean that creativity was forfeited at Pearl's annual fashion gala last week at the Taj Palace where 60 designers showed their final-year stuff. The institution has a system in which students analyse the profile of a particular store (could be Bloomindales or Karol Bagh's Janak) and piece clothes that could sell off their racks. So there was a wacky Wicca line that would suit Libas of London or the picnicky, neo-impressionist Deja Vu good enough for Galaries Lafayette, Paris. Adds Shilpa Jalan who teamed up two others for her garments-with-grunge: "We're all tailor-made for the industry." Wisdom from Pearl? -Anshul Avijit
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