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He may not be new to Paris Fashion Week,but designer Manish Arora manages to make news every time he shows there. His Spring Summer 2012 collection,that walked the Parisian runway on Thursday,once again brought a tide of international fashion reviews about his work,most of them congratulatory. Readying his first collection for the house of Paco Rabanne,Arora isnt complaining. Spanish actress Rossi de Palma was his showstopper. Good at choosing words that fuse the futuristic with the here and now,he called his collection a metaphoric and physical play on the skin tones of the world,where the blacks,the whites and the browns form a universal trinity in the nude.
His trademark shock value came up as a motif in this collection too,with iridescent and fluorescent accents breathing energy into nude tones. Taking inspiration from the joie de vivre of the 60s,Aroras silhouettes flow into easy and relaxed shapes with a pleasant mix of blousons,tents and semi-fits and the boundaries have been blurred to reveal that these are the garments of the future. The mini and flare skirts,well-tailored jackets,innovative tent dresses,raised neck tops,pleated overlap trousers and acidic denims echo the joy of the ingenuous era.
The collections power lies in the techniques employed to work their magic on the neutral colour palette. Flaming patchwork,3D black and white swirls,fluorescent wire work juxtaposed with embroideries such as the traditional cross-stitch,hippie fringes,frayed edges and swish feathers gave us shock and awe. What else.
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